Mayor's Office, City Hall,

Baltimore, Nov. 1st, 1857.
To His Excellency,

T. Watkins Ligon,

                                  Governor of Maryland,

Sir :—I have the honor to receive your letter of this date. It
affords me pleasure to know that your Excellency is satisfied with
my arrangements for preserving order at the coming election.—
The assurance which you have given me that you do not now
contemplate the use of the military force which you have ordered
to be enrolled and organized, enables me to anticipate a quiet
and peaceable election, which I am sure will be as agreeable, to
your Excellency, as myself.

I have the honor to be,
With great respect, &c.,

THOMAS SWANN, Mayor.

PROCLAMATION                     

By the Governor of Maryland.         

I, T. Watkins Ligon, Governor of the State of Maryland,
hereby make this Proclamation to the citizens of Baltimore.

Being satisfied that, the extraordinary and additional arrange-
ments made by the Mayor of the city of Baltimore, and with
which he has more fully acquainted me, will afford to all citizens
personal protection, and a fairness and impartiality calculated to
remove all distrust as to the freedom of the elective franchise on
Wednesday next, and the object of my official intervention hav-
ing thus, in my own judgment, and in that of a large number of
respectable citizens whom I have consulted, been secured.

I do hereby proclaim and give notice that I do not contemplate
the use, upon that day, of the military force which I have here-
tofore ordered to be enrolled and organized.

And I do hereby call upon and solemnly enjoin all good citi-
zens, to unite with and support the constituted authorities of the
city in the maintainance of order and the law.

Given under my hand, at the city of Baltimore, this first day
of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hun-
dreJ and fifty-seven.

T. WATIKINS LIGON.

By the Governor,

J. Pinkeny, Secretary of State.

The undersigned having been called by his Excellency the
Governor of Maryland, into consultation with him, touching the
measures that ought to foe adopted for supporting the laws in the

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