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to aid in “maintaining the laws and integrity of the national Union,” I do hereby call upon all the citizens of this Territory capable of bearing arms, and liable to militia duty, to report immediately to the
Adjutant-General of the
Territory, and proceed at once to organize themselves into companies, and elect their own officers, in the manner prescribed by the act of January 26, 1855, and the amendatory act of February 4, 1858, to organize the militia.
The organization of each company will be immediately reported to
Adjutant-General Frank Matthias, at
Seattle, W. T., and through him to the
Governor, when the commissions will issue to the officers elected.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the
Territory to be affixed, at
Olympia, this tenth day of May, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, and of the
Independence the eighty-fifth.
