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By his excellency Alexander H. Bullock, governor: A proclamation for a day of public thanksgiving and praise. : By and with the advice and consent of the Council, I do hereby set apart Thursday, the 29th day of November next, to be observed throughout this Commonwealth as a day of public thanksgiving and praise. ... Given at the Council Chamber, in Boston, this twelfth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, and the ninety-first of the independence of the United States of America