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 APPENDIX. 1263 No. 10. p BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Feb. 19, 1862. A PROCLAMATION. Ir is recommended to the People of the United States that they assemble in Celebration of their customary places of meeting for public solemnities on the twent·—second the twenty-sera day of February instant, and celebrate the anniversa of the birth of the md d¤Y°fF°bl‘¤‘ Eaitgileeigsof his Country, by causing to be read to them Ihis immortal Farewell :3 "°°°“““°“d` Given under my hand and the seal of the United States, at Washington, L S J the nineteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand [ ‘eight hundred and sixty-two, and of the Independence of the United States of, America the eighty-sixth. _ ABRAHAM LINCOLN. By the President: WILLIAM H. Snwann, Secretary of State. No. 11.· BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: AP¤‘il10»186?· A PROCLAMATION. Ir has pleased Almighty God to vouchsafe signal victories to the land and _1{¤l>U¤ fhqnksnaval forces engaged in suppressing an internal rebellion, and at the same time Ewing f°" “°*°& to avert from our country the dancers of foreign intervention and invasion. ;1fr°°°mm°° ` It is therefore recommended to ihe people of the United States that, at their next weekly assemblages in their accustomed places of public worship which shall occur after notice of this proclamation shall have been received, they especially acknowledge and render thanks to our Heavenly Father for these inestimable blessings; that they then and there implore spiritual consolations in behalf of all who have been brought into affliction by the casualties and calamities of sedition and civil war, and that they reverently invoke the Divine guidance for our national counsels, to the end that they may speedily result in the restoration of peace, harmony, and unity throughout our borders, and hasten the establislr ment of fraternal relations among all the countries of the earth. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. _ _ Done at the City of Washington, this tenth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, and of the Inde- [I" S'] pcndence of the United States the eighty-§>ét1l€.AHAM LINCOLN By the President: WILLIAM H. Snwann, Secretary of State. No. 12. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: May 12, 1862. A PROCLAMATION. `VHEREAS, by mv Proclamation of the nineteenth of April, one_thousand preamble, eight hundred and sixty-one, it was declared that the ports of certain States, including those of Beaufort, in the State of North Carolina, Port Royal, in the State of" South Carolina, and New Orleans, in the State of Louisiana, were, for reasons therein set forth, intended to be placed under blockade; and whereas, the said ports of Beaufort, Port Royal, and New Orleans have since been block-