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No. 1. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Aprii8, 1869. A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS objects of interest to the United States re uire that the Senate should be convened at twelve o’clock, on the twelfth dayqof April, 1869, to re- Preamble. ceive and act upon such communications as may be made to it on the part of the Executive: _ Now, therefore, I, U. S. GRANT, President of the United States, have con- Extraordinary sidered it to be my duty to issue this, my Proclamation, declaring that an ¤<=¤¤i0¤ 0T the extraordinary occasion requires the Senate of the United States to convene S°"’·t°.°°“"°“°d for the transaction of business, at the Ca 'itol, ou the twelfth day of April, °°Apn1H'186°' 1869, at twelve o’clock noon on that day, oi? which all who shall at that time betentitled to act as members of that body are hereby required to take no ice. Given under my hand and the seal of the United States, at Washington, the [SEAL ] eighth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand right hun- ` dred and sixty-nine, and of the Independence of the Uni States of America, the ninety-third. U. S. GRANT. By the President: Hamuxrox Frsu, Secretary of Stale. No. 2. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: M¤Y14» 1869- A PROCLAMATION. IN pursuance of the provisions of the act of Congress approved April 10th, Constitution 1869, I hereby designate the 6th day of July, 1869, as the time for submitting °f,Y"f8*“$“ *0,*,;** the constitution passed b the convention which met in Richmond, Virginia, on 33m",?;? ,,3, ° Tuesday, the 3d day of December, 1867, to the voters of said State, registered 5,,,,,,,, July 6, at the date of such submission, viz: July 6, 1869, for ratification or rejection. 1869. And I submit to a separate vote the fourth clause of section one, of article AW. P- 40- three, of said constitution, which is in the following words: ,0 iipgfgz gsm " Every person who has been a Senator or Representative in Congress, or ,0,,,,,, cl,,,,,,, of elector of President or Vice-President, or who held any office, civil or military, ggctiou one of under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an article three. oath as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State,