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800 APPENDIX. PROCLAMATION. N0. 53. Capitol, in the city of Washington, on the 4th day of next month, at 12 0’clock at noon of that day, of which all who shall then be entitled to act as members of that body are hereby required to take notice. Given under my hand and the seal of the United States, at W'ashingtcm, [L S J this 26th day of February, anno Domini, 1859, and of the inde- ' ‘ pendence of the United States the eighty-third. JAMES BUCHANAN. BY THE PRESIDENT: LEWIS CASS, Secretary of State