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 808 PROCLAMATION S. of worship, there to give thanks and praise to Almighty God for 1I1s mercies, and to devoutly beseech their continuance. 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 30th day of October, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States, the One hundred and Third. R. B. HAYES. By the President: WM. M. Evaurs, Secretary of State. No. 8. March 4, 1879. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. Preamble. Whereas the Hnal adjournment of the Forty-lifth Congress without making the usual and necessary appropriations for the legislative, executive and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1880, and without making the usual and necessary a ppropriations for the support of the Army for the same fiscal year, presents au extraordinary occasion requiring the President to exercise the power vested in him by the Constitution to convene the Houses of Congress in anticipation of the day iixed by law for their next meeting: Cvqwning C¤¤- Now, therefore, I, Rutherford B. Hayes, President of the United gg? m °“’“ '*’s' States, do, by virtue of the power to this end in me vested by the Constitution, convene both Houses of Congress to assemble at their respective chambers at 12 o’clock noon on Tuesday the eighteenth day oi March instant, then and there to consider and determine such measures as, in their wisdom, their duty and the welfare of the people may seem to demand. 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 \Vashingt0n this fourth day of March, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, and [L. S.] of the Independence of the United States of America, the One Hundred and Third. R. B. HAYES. By the President: Wm. M. Eviuzrs, Secretary of State.