By The Governor Of The State Of Michigan: A Proclamation

Whkrhas, it has long boon nn esfablislierl ciHiom üriiWg the State, of Jhis UiiÍo:j lo set ñpn one day ii eacb year as a day of ptiWic Thanksgiving and Pr'ayer to Almihfy Wtjeroap, $':cn a niPtcm tendp msnifPHtJv to improve the mora] ci.irnrlpr of n eople by '!ifii!c!innt.', ni.d mro eflt-cniKljy mre-sin up ■in thcir ninds-, a p.oiipr eense of (iépendénce in(J.accoiii)ta1ï!liu to IIiri whoslono n.les t!i Umvfrf. and u wliöse mercies ll niiko hAnd whorpns, n custom tima sanctioned mui s fröiight wiih good sbouJo fae cinly obNew, thorbfore, T, John S. Barrv, Gov ern.,r of the State of Michigan, havo ilmnpht [oper f o npDuiüt.itnd by theVe orp-=pnts do appobl, TIÍURSOAYí'the TVri?STY-FotíRTii DAY OF NOVBMI5KR l]íX!, as a dflV of JHlbljC Tlwmkiviüur and nndi'dr. lrftreby rccoimnend to tliepfoplè oi'tliis Sfa e to spt apon and observe the san e arcordmgly: thut üiey nssemble on that dy in ihoir sevora! pi, oei of public worsliip ind with liiirnhls and oniiüp henr's render sincere tlmnkg to th jreo! RuJer of the Univpre tor continniniy to iis the inestiuiuMe blest=ings of pence; for preserving ns firpin iniernsl convulixn?, from ppsiilence and fnmine; tbr rrownin? tlin ]:ibof of the busbandnvin wiih bnnd.-int hnrvest: for our civü and rélipiöüs instinnioi-s; for our social and doni'stic nnjoymonts; n,nd for all his numerous nierri8 so rra ciouhly bostowed; nnd fuimbly and feryently to nsk thfiir contiüiiance. In testimony ivfiéfeofj I hnv) cansed the Great Senl of the State to be ffixed to th(sp presan:?, and signet) llie Fame wilh mv Imnd. [L. S .] Dcne at i lie City of Detroit,? he I went y fift.lj dayofOcföber, in ti.e of our Lord one thousnnd eiorht hundred and fortv-twn, and of the Itx.'ependenco of the United Staies the .-ixtv-;evphth.