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By His Ercellency JOHN M. MoREHEAD, Gorern,


Captain, General and Conamander-in-chiefn


and ouer the State aforesaid.


WHEREAS, have been duly informed by lhs
w Proclamation of His Excellency WIIILAMH
HARRIsoN President Of the United States, that the
last Monday of May next (being the 3lst day there
of) has been fixed upon by him for the meeting U
the First Session of the Twenty-seventh Congress
of the United States: an event which renders it
expedient and necessary that the elections for The
Repres entatives from this State in the next Con
gress should be held at an earlier day than the usua
time of holding said elections:


Now, therefore, by virtue of the authority in me
vested, by an Act Of the General Assembly of this
State entitled EAn Act concerning the mode Of
choosing Senators and Representatives in the Con
gress of the United States," (ReriSed Statutes Of
~ G. Chapter led, } and TO the end, that the Free
men of this State may be duly represented in the
next Congress, at its first session commencing
aforesaid, do issue this my Proclamation, hereb
commanding and requiring all Sherffs and othG
Returning Officers of the several Counties comps
ing each Congressional District, to cause Polls to
be opened and kept, and Elections TO be held for
Representatives to the next Congress of the Uni
ted States on Thursday, the thirteenth day OF May
next at the places established by law in their re
spectve Counties for holding said Elections. And
| do further command and require said Sheriff.
and other Returning Officers, to meet for the Pur
pose of comparing the Polls, at the times and pa.
ces prescribed by law for that purpose. And do
by this, my Proclamation, further ''requre the
Freemen of this State, TO meet in their respective
Counties at the time" aforesaid, and sat the pa.
ces established by law, then and there TO give Their
votes for Representatives" in the next Congress


In testimony whereof have caused the Grea
Seal of the State to be hereunto affixed, and signel
the same with my hand.


.,.xs., Done at the City of Raleigh, this the
,TaSIs&. twenty-second day ofMa-ch, in the wear
sRS$zESiss OF our Lord one thousand eight hundred
SssSSgsSS' and forty-one, and of the Independents
''fSf1S' of the United States the sixty-6fth.


]. NJ. MOREHEAD.


By the Governor:


ia: T. LrrTLEJoHN, P. sec'y.


March 81, 1871. 334-9t.