PROCLAMATION  (or EDICT)

 FOR THE ENTIRE POPULATION FROM THE ARMY DIVISION -SHEFER, THE FOLLOWING
 POLICE PROCLAMATION IS ISSUED:

 1.    EVERY RESIDENT OWNING HORSES IS ORDERED TO PRESENT ALL HORSES
 THAT ARE FOUND IN HIS POSSESSION TO THE COMMITTEE WHEN THERE WILL BE A
 MUSTERING AND REGISTRATION OF HORSES

 2.    HIDDEN AND HORSES NOT PRESENTED WILL BE CONFISCATED, PLUS THE RESIDENT
 WILL BE PUNISHED WITH IMPRISONMENT UP TO 6 MONTHS OR A MONEY FINE UP TO
 6,000 MARK.  IN THE EVENT THAT THE MONEY PUNISHMENT CANNOT BE
 COLLECTED,THERE WIL BE A 3 - 30 MARK PER DAY ARREST, OR
 IMPRISONMENT. IN THE EVENT THAT SEVERAL OF THESE INSTANCES OCCUR, OR
 SEVERAL _______________ WILL BE ACCUSED OF HAVING KNOWLEDGEOF  THE ACT, THE
 GOVERNMENT  WILL PUNISH THE THEM WITH A JAIL SENTENCE.
 .

 3.    THE REGIONAL POLICE PROCLAMATION IS VALID FROM THE DAY THAT
 IT IS OPENED.

                 LYDA the 10th January 1917
 THE HEAD COMMANDANT OF THE ARMY  DIVISION SHEFER
 a.f.
         F. FROMEL