It is fitting that at stated periods we should cease from our
accustomed pursuits and from the turmoil of our daily lives and unite
in thankfulness for the blessings of the past and in the cultivation of
kindly feelings toward each other.
Now, therefore, recognizing these considerations, I, Ulysses S. Grant,
President of the United States, do recommend to all citizens to
assemble in their respective places of worship on Thursday, the 26th
day of November next, and express their thanks for the mercy and favor
of Almighty God, and, laying aside all political contentions and all
secular occupations, to observe such day as a day of rest,
thanksgiving, and praise.
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 27th day of October, A.D. 1874,
and of the Independence of the United States the ninety-ninth.
[SEAL.]
U.S. GRANT.
By the President:
HAMILTON FISH,
_Secretary of State_.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas, pursuant to the second section of the act of Congress approved
the 23d of March last, entitled "An act to authorize the President to
accept for citizens of the United States the jurisdiction of certain
tribunals in the Ottoman dominions and Egypt, established or to be
established under the authority of the Sublime Porte and of the
Government of Egypt," the President is authorized, for the benefit of
American citizens residing in the Turkish dominions, to accept the
recent law of the Ottoman Porte ceding the right of foreigners
possessing immovable property in said dominions; and
Whereas, pursuant to the authority thus in me vested, I have authorized
George H.
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