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law and the authority of the Military Board, and said Military Board having passed the following order:
On motion of
General Dudley,
Resolved, That his
Excellency, the
Governor, be requested to take such steps as he may think best calculated for the recovery of the public arms forcibly taken from
Mayfield and carried to
Fulton County.
A copy-attest.
--Now, therefore, I,
B. Magoffin,
Governor of the
Commonwealth of
Kentucky, do now issue this, my proclamation, commanding every citizen or other person, within the jurisdiction of this State, having in his possession any arms or munitions thus unlawfully seized as above stated, forthwith to deliver up the same to the judge of the county court of the county in which he resides, to be returned by said judge to the State arsenal at
Frankfort; and I make this appeal to the loyalty of such citizens in good faith, believing that they will promptly manifest such a signal poof of their fidelity to the laws and authorities of the
State; at the same time warning all concerned that if this order be not promptly obeyed, my duty will require the most rigorous enforcement of the laws against all disobedient offenders.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my name, and caused the seal of the
Commonwealth to be affixed.
Done at
Frankfort, this, the 3d day of August, A. D. 1861, and in the seventieth year of the
Commonwealth.
By the
Governor,
