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 APPENDIX. 749 No. 21. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Oct. 20, 1864. A PROCLAMATION. Ir has pleased Almighty God to prolong our national life another year, Day of thanks defending us with His guardian care against unfriendly designs from abroad, and sivies and Pml"*‘ vouchsating to us in His mercy many and signal victories over the enemy; who is °pp°m°°d’ of our own household. It has also pleased our Heavenly Father to favor as well our citizens in their homes as our soldiers in their camps, and our sailors on the rivers and seas, with unusual health. He has largely augmented our free population by emancipation and by immigration, while He has opened to us new sources of wealth, and has crowned the labor of our working men in every department of industry with abundant rewards. Moreover, He has been pleased to animate and inspire our minds and hearts with fortitude, courage, and resolution sufficient for the great trial of civil war into which we have been brought by our adherence as a nation to the c•.use of freedom and humanity, and to afford to us reasonable hopes of an ultimate and happy deliverance from all our dangers and afllictionsz Now, therefore, _I, ABRAHAM L1No0LN, President of the United States, do hereby appoint and set apart the last Thursday of November next as a day which I desire to be observed by all my fellow-citizens, wherever they may then be, as a day of thanksgiving and praise to Almighty God, the beneticent Creator and Ruler of the Universe. And I do farther recommend to my fellow-citizens aforesaid, that, on that occasion, they do reverently humble themselves in the dust, and from thence offer up penitent and fervent prayers and supplications to the Great Disposer of events for a return of the inestimable blessings of peace, union, and harmony throughout the land which it has pleased Him to assign as a dwelling—plaee for ourselves and for our posterity throughout all generations. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be ailixed. Done at the city of Washington this twentieth day of October, in the year [L. s.] of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, and of the Independence of the United States the eigg3yi{ni¤;tIl;&M LINCOLN A. By the President: WILLIAM H. Snwann, Secretary of State. N0. 22. . BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Oct. 31, 1864. A PROGLAMATION. { WHEREAS the congress of the United States passed an act, which was ap- Preamnle. roved on the 21st day of March last, entitled "An act to enable the people of 135*3;; ch-, Nevada to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of *p‘ ’ such state into the Union on an equal footing with the original states ;" And whereas the said constitution and state government have been formed, ( pursuant to the conditions prescribed by the fifth section of the act of congress aforesaid, and the certificate required by the said act, and also a copy of the K constitution and ordinances, have been submitted to the President of the United { States: Now, therefore, be it known, that I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the Nevada aeg- United States, in accordance with the duty imposed upon me by the act of con *6*;:;:3 mm i '° gress aforesaid, do hereby declare and proclaim that the_sa1d State of Nevada is ', admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original states. ` In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the eal of the —United States to be affixed. _ _  Done at the city of Washington thizghprty-first day of October, in the year é