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By his excellency Thomas Talbot, governor: A proclamation for a day of public thanksgiving and praise. : With the advice and consent of the Council, I hereby appoint Thursday, the twenty-seventh day of November current, as a day of public thanksgiving and praise. ... Given at the Council Chamber, in Boston, this seventh day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, and of the independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fourth