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 PROCLAMATIONS. Nos. 3, 4. 1482 N o. 3. A PROCLAMATICN. · BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. The goodness and the mercy of God, which have followed the 0c¢<>be¤·2=.i8Sr. American people during all the days of the past year, claim their Thuisdw, ymmi grateful recognition and humble acknowledgment. By His omnip- @2;;; §$Qn“l§;", M otent power He has protected us from war and estilence and from bg g y` every national calamity; by His gracious favor the earth has yielded a generous return to the labor of the husbandman, and ever path of honest toil has led to comfort and contentment; b His loving kindness the hearts of our people have been replenishetlr with fraternal sentiment and patriotic endeavor, and by His unerring guidance we have been directed in the way of National prosperity; To the end that we may, with one accord, testify our gratitude for all these blessings, I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, · do hereby designate and set apart Thursday, the twenty-fourth day of November next, as a day o Thanksgiving and Prayer, to be observed by all the people of the land. On that day let all secular work and employment be suspended; and let our people assemble in their accustomed places of worship and with prayer and songs of praise, give thanks to our Heavenly Father for all that He has done for us, while we humbly implore the forgiveness of our sins and a continuance of His mercy. Let families and kindred be re-united on that day; and let their hearts, filled with kindly cheer and affectionate reminiscence, be turned in thankfulness to the source of all their pleasures and the Giver of all that makes the day glad and joyous. . And in the midst of our worship and our happinesslet us remember the poor, the needy and the unfortunate; and by our gifts of charity and ready benevolence, let us increase the number of those who with grateful hearts shall join in our Thanksgiving. In witness whereof I have set my hand and caused the seal of the ‘ United States to be hereunto atiixed. Done at the city of Wasl1ington this twenty-fifth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and [SEAL.] eighty-seven, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twelfth. GROVER CLEVELAND. By the President: T. F. BAYARD, Sec7·ez‘m·y of Stale. No; 4. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. Whereas the titleto all that territory lying between the North and December *1 18* · South forks of the Red River and the hundredth degree of longi- Pmambie. tude, and jurisdiction over the same are vested in the United States, it being a part of the Indian Territory, as shown by surveys and investigation made on behalf of the United Stateszwhich territory the State of Texas also claims title to and jurisdiction over; and