Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 18 Part 3.djvu/885

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PROOLAMATIONS. 855 the laws, and submit themselves, aceabl t th‘ Sa? cmgty mg Mami · pe _ y 0 e lawful authorities of n wi ess w ereof, have hereunto set m hand and ca d of the United States to be aifixed. y ° use the Sam Done at the city of- Washington, this twenty-first day of December, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and seventy·four, [sun,.] andghof the Independence of the United States the ninety- mn . U. S. GRANT. By the President: HAMILTON Frsn, Secretary of State. _ No. 12. Feb. 17, 1875. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 0I·‘ AMERICA. —····———-·-· A PROULAMATION. Whereas objects of interest to the United States require that the Prwnble Senate should be convened at twelve· o’clock on the fifth day of March next, to receive and act upon such communications as may be made to it on the part of the Executive: Now, therefore, I, Umrssns S. GRANT, President of the United States, Proclamation to have considered it to be my duty to issue this my proclamation, declar- €g“Q“?m§,°§?*:c°‘ ing that an extraordinary occasion requires the Senate of the United °* n ° °` States to convene for the transaction of business at the Capitol, in the city of Washington, on the fifth day of March next, at twelve o’olock at _ noon on that day, of which all who shall at that time be entitled to act as members of that body, are hereby required to take notice. . Given under my hand and the seal of the United States at Washington the seventeenth day of February, in the year of our Lord [SEAL.] one thousand eight hundred and seventy-tive, and of the Independence of the United States of America the ninety-ninth. - U. S. GRANT. By the President: HA1m.·ro1~x Frsn, · Secretary of State.