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By his excellency John A. Andrew, governor: A proclamation for a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer. : By and with the advice and consent of the Council, I do hereby appoint Thursday, the seventh day of April next, to be observed throughout this Commonwealth, as a day of humiliation, fasting, and prayer... Given at the Council Chamber, in Boston, this fourth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, and of the Independence of the United States of America the eighty-eighth