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By his excellency John A Andrew, governor: A proclamation for a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer. : In accordance with the practice and example of our fathers, ... I do hereby, with the advice and consent of the Council, appoint Thursday, the thirteenth 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 first day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the eighty-ninth