Proclamation By The Governor

Tu the People of the State of Michigan, Oreet111 : In obsorvance of a time-honorod custom, and in oonformity with the Proclamation of the President, I hereby appoint THURSDAY. the 27th Day ov November, 1H"3, as a day of J'iihlic Thanksgiving. Let us on that day, in onr respectivo placea of public worahip, and in our homes, remember with srstitnde, tiat íi 11 our blessinfjs are the gift of God. Our miafortunes only :nv our oira. Let us, by acta ut' oharity to lis BufFsring chililren at home and in sister Stiltes, show that our gratitude is ot the heart, earnest end sincere. " Reject not the Bupplieation of the afflleted ; neither turn away thy face froni a poor man." (Jiven onder my hand and tlio Great Seal of the State, at Lansinf;, this Ist day of November, in the year of our [L. S.] Lord ono thousand eight hnndred and seventy-tbree, and of the [ndependenDfl of the United States the ninetyeii'htli.