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By his excellency John A. Andrew, governor: A proclamation for a day of public thanksgiving and praise. : By the advice and consent of the Council, I do hereby appoint Thursday, the 26th day of November next, to be observed, by the people of Massachusetts, as a day of public thanksgiving and praise ... Given at the Council Chamber, in Boston, this first day of October, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and the eighty-eighth of the Independence of the United States of America