PROCLAMATIONS. PROCLAMATION BY THE GOVERNOR. STATE OF NEW JERSEY. In accordance with the law and established custom in this state, the Executive each year sets apart a day of thanksgiving and prayer, on which the people may rest from their labors, and assemble in their homes and places of religious worship, to acknowledge and return thanks to Almighty God for his goodness and mercy, and pray that he will continue to bless them with abundance and prosperity; Therefore, I, LEON ABBETT, governor of the state of New Jersey, do hereby designate Thursday, the twentyseventh day of November, instant, as a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, and recommend that the people of this state on that day abstain from all secular avocations, assemble in their usual places of worship and give thanks to God for his infinite goodness in the past, and invoke for the future bis blessings upon the nation, the state, and the homes of our people. Given under my hand and privy seal, at the executive chamber, in the city of Trenton, on [L. S.] this eleventh day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety. Attest: LEON ABBETT, JR., (531) LEON ABBETT, Governor. PROCLAMATION BY THE GOVERNOR. Pursuant to the authority vested in me by a joint resolution of the legislature, relative to the planting of forest trees, approved February twenty-first, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, I do hereby set apart Friday, the seventeenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, for the planting of forest trees, and recommend that the day be devoted by the people to that purpose. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the great seal of the state to be [L. S.] hereunto affixed, at Trenton, this twenty-fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and ninety-one. LEON ABBETT. |