There will be ten special policemen, in addition to the regular
police, who will be commissioned by the Mayor, to lend their aid
in preserving order at the polls.

As Chief Magistrate of the city of Baltimore, I call upon all
all good and order loving citizens to cooperate with me in carry-
ing out the details of this Proclamation.
                                              THOMAS SWANN, Mayor.

Baltimore, November 1, 1857.
His Excellency, the Governor of Maryland,

Sir :—Believing that the object your official intervention in the
matter of the coming election in this City, as to which you have
done us the honor to consult us, will be effectually accomplished
by the arrangements which the Mayor has now made and com-
municated to you, we urgently advise you to abandon your pur-
pose of resorting to the military on that day. We do not and
cannot doubt that those arrangements will be carried out in good
faith, and that the peace of the City and the uninterrupted exer-
cise of the right of suffrage will be thereby effectually secured.
We are with great respect your obedient servants,
B. C. Howard,
Reverdy Johnson,
Chas. F. Mayer,
S. W. Smith,
Charles Howard,
John Thomson Mason,
S. Teackle Wallis.

Baltimore, Nov. 1, 1857.
To the Hon Thomas Swann,

Mayor of Baltimore.

Sir :—It is a matter of extreme gratification to me that you
have communicated to me the extraordinary and additional ar-
rangements, by which you propose to preserve order at the com-
ing election. Seeing in these the composition of a special police,
which affords to all citizens the promise of personal protection,
and also of a fairness and impartiality calculated to remove all
distrust as to the freedom of the elective franchise on that day, it
gives me great pleasure to say that I now contemplate no use of
the military force which I have ordered to be enrolled and organ-
ized.

I have the honor to be, Sir,

Your obedient servant,

T. WATKINS LIGON.

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