the introduction into the Indian country, for the purpose of sale or exchange to or with Indians, of any breech-loading firearms, and of any special ammunition adapted to such arms, and the sale and exchange to Indians in the Indian country of any such arms or ammunition, is hereby prohibited; and it is hereby directed that all authority under any license to trade in such arms or ammunition is hereby revoked.

The introduction into the country or district occupied by any tribe of hostile Indians, for the purpose of sale or exchange to them, of arms or ammunition of any description, and the sale or exchange thereof to or with such Indians, is hereby prohibited; and it is hereby directed that all license to trade in arms or ammunition of any description with such tribe be revoked.

By virtue of section 2150, Revised Statutes, as follows: 

  The military forces of the United States may be employed in
  such manner and under such regulations as the President may
  direct—­

* * * * *

  Third.  In preventing the introduction of persons and property
  into the Indian country contrary to law, which persons and
  property shall be proceeded against according to law.

* * * * *

All military commanders are hereby charged with the duty of assisting in the execution of the above order and of Executive order of November 23, 1876,[3] the provisions of which are extended to include all Indian country within the Territories of Idaho, Utah, and Washington and the States of Nevada and Oregon.

R.B.  HAYES.

[Footnote 3:  See pp. 398-399.]

SPECIAL SESSION MESSAGE.

WASHINGTON, October 15, 1877.

Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives: 

The adjournment of the last Congress without making appropriations for the support of the Army for the present fiscal year has rendered necessary a suspension of payments to the officers and men of the sums due them for services rendered after the 30th day of June last.  The Army exists by virtue of statutes which prescribe its numbers, regulate its organization and employment, and which fix the pay of its officers and men and declare their right to receive the same at stated periods.  These statutes, however, do not authorize the payment of the troops in the absence of specific appropriations therefor.  The Constitution has wisely provided that “no money shall be drawn from the Treasury but in consequence of appropriations made by law;” and it has also been declared by statute that “no department of the Government shall expend in any one fiscal year any sum in excess of appropriations made by Congress for that fiscal year.”  We have, therefore, an Army in service, authorized by law and entitled to be paid, but no funds available for that purpose.