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 798 PROCLAMATIONS. No. 2. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Nov. 3, ms. A PROGLAMATION. Preamble. At no recurrence of the season which the devout habit of a religious people has made the occasion for giving thanks to Almighty God and humbly invoking His continued favor, has the material prosperity enjoyed by our whole country been more conspicuous, more manifold or more universal. During the past year, also, unbroken peace with all foreign nations, the general prevalence of domestic tranquillity, the supremacy and security of the great institutions of civil and religious freedom, have gladdened the hearts of our people, and confirmed their attachment to their government, which the wisdom and courage of our ancestors so iitly framed and the wisdom and coinage of their descendants have so firmly maintained, to be the habitation of liberty and Justice to successive generations. r A p p o iuting Now, therefore, I, Rutherford B. Hayes, President of the United 5 h‘L’“d;,Y¤18l;g‘ States, do appoint Thursday, the 27th day of November, instant, as a Tizlniggivihgdayf Day of _National Thanksgiving and Prayer; and I earnestly recommend that, withdrawing themselves from secular cares andlabors, the people of the United States do meet together on that day In their respect1ve gaces of worshgihthere totgiyge thanllzshand pra§se to Almighty God for is mercies an evou y eseec eir con nuance. 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 third day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine [L. S.] and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and fourth. RUTHERFORD B. HAYES. By the President:. Wm. M. Evmrs Sccretaxry of State. No. 3. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Fab-1% 1880- A PROCLAMATION. · P¤*¤mbl¤· hajglghggeiag itthzstbeccéme knoiwn to mle that certain evil-disposed persons i H erri ry an juris `ction of the United States beoun and set on foot preparations for an organized and forcible possessioii of an settlement upon the lands of what is known as the Indian Territory, ¥§§“d%€Et%E.§“§§ ‘2£€€.‘§";..‘t€’3§;.l.°.’£1§i‘.€“§§‘€?.‘Qy£.?€.?.ig`s"?“§.“E ‘"§§‘.fi§‘§Z€i§*.2 . . ., 6 Executiye authorities, as Indian Country, and as such is only subject to occupation by Indian tribes, officers of the Indian Department military posts, and such persons as may be privileged to reside and trade therein under the intercourse laws of the United States: _ And whereas those laws provide for the removal of all persons residgg anglttrggénggtgilegseiigjhgighout gxplress permission of tge Indkan D6- _ , so o a persons w om suc agen s may deem to be improper persons to reside in the Indian Country: