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HENDERSON, The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, acting under the immediate authority of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department to emigrants and emigration agents, October 14, 1879
[Inclosure 2 in No. 139.]
Notice to emigrants and emigration agents.
Metropolitan Police Office, Great Scotland Yard, 14th day of Oct., 1879.
Whereas there is reason to believe that a system of solicitation extensively prevails to induce persons to emigrate from Great Britain to the United States for the purpose of joining the Mormon community at Salt Lake, in the Territory of Utah, this notice is to warn all persons that the law of the United States prohibits the practice of polygamy existing in the Mormon community, and renders any person who engages therein liable to heavy fine and a long period of imprisonment.
E. Y. HENDERSON,
The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, acting under the immediate authority of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department.
The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, acting under the immediate authority of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department.
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U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P.