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By his excellency Alexander H. Bullock, 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 fifth 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 sixth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, and of the independence of the United States of America the ninetieth