I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
P. JONES YORK, Lieutenant Colonel Commanding Post.
Provost Major General DAVIDSON, Commanding Southern District of Mississippi.
Official copy:
J. WARREN MILLER, Assistant Adjutant General.
[Special Orders No. 16.]
HEADQUARTERS POST OF PORT GIBSON,
Port Gibson, Mississippi, August 10, 1865.
The permission given from these headquarters, dated July 3, 1865, by
Captain Jack, provost marshal, is hereby revoked.
C.B. Clark, chief of police, under the permission, will notify the parties forming the said patrol to discontinue the practice of patrolling the roads and country armed. All arrests must be made by the proper military or civil authorities.