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 834 PROCLAMATIOXS. Nos. 2, 3. 1883. No. 2. 0ct_ gg_ 188} uv Tm; rmasmnwrr or rm; Uma ED strarias or Ammica. A PHOCLAMATION. y0v_gg_18g_·;_ In furtherance of the custom of this people at the closing of each year to engage upon a day set apart for that purpose in a special festival of praise to the Giver of all good, I, Chester A. Arthur, President of pay of Thank, the United States, do hereby designate Thursday, the 29th day of Nogiving. vember next, as a day of National Thanksgiving. The year which is drawing to an end has been replete with evidences of Divine goodness. The prevalence of health, the fullness of the harvests, the stability of peace and order, the growth of fraternal feeling, the spread of intelligence and learning, the continued enjoyment of civil and religious liberty; all these and countless other blessings, are cause for reverent rc- _]o1c1n. I dg therefore recommend that on the day above appointed the people rest from their accustomed labors, and, meeting in their several places of worship, express their devout gratitude to God that He hath dealt so bountifully with this nation, and pray that His grace and favor abide with it forever. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be amxed. Done at the city of Washington this twentysixth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty- [mn.] three, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and eighth. g;g¤,m,,_ _ CHESTER A. ARTHUR. By the President: ‘ Fmanx. T. FBELHWGHUYSEN, Secretary of State. No. 3. Dm 21, mg; BY rim PRESEENT or THE UNITED stutrzs or Ammuca. · A PRUCLAMATION. p,,,,,,,,;,;,_ » Whereas both Houses of Congress did, on the twentieth instant, request the commemoration, on the twenty-third instant, of the one hun- Commmonhon dredth anniversary of the surrender by George Washington, at Annap of the mm, ,,,,,,,_ olis, of his commission as Commander-in-Chief of the patriot forces of Lsrsary of Wash- Anéeaica; and 6 h _¤ ¤ ¤¤¤§¤¤{ H ereas it is ttin gt at this memorable act which not only si alized gg; °°'““"'°‘°"· the termination of the heroic struggle of sevein years.for indepeghldence, but also manifested Washington’s devotion to the great principle that ours is a civic Government of and by the people, should be generally observed throughout the United States: Now, therefore, I, Chester A. Arthur, President of the United States, do hereby recommend that either by appropriate exercises in connection with the religious services of the twenty-third instant, or by such public observancesas may be deemed proper, on Monday, the twenty-fourth instant, this signal event in the history of American liberty be commemorated; and,further,I hereby direct that at twelve oielock noon on Monday next the national salute be fired from all the fortsthroughout the country. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be aiiixed. ·