press, is not denied, provided it does not interfere with
the discharge of their official duties. No assessment for
political purposes on officers or subordinates should be
allowed.


This rule is applicable to every department of the civil service. It
should be understood by every officer of the General Government that
he is expected to conform his conduct to its requirements.

Very respectfully,

R.B. HAYES.

[Footnote 2: Addressed to Federal officers generally.]



EXECUTIVE MANSION, _August 7, 1877_.

By virtue of authority conferred upon the President of the United
States by the provisions of section 2132, Revised Statutes of the
United States, as follows:

The President is authorized, whenever in his opinion the
public interest may require the same, to prohibit the
introduction of goods, or of any particular article, into
the country belonging to any Indian tribe, and to direct
all licenses to trade with such tribe to be revoked and all
applications therefor to be rejected. No trader to any other