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Proclamation by Lord Dunmore

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PROCLAMATION BY LORD DUNMORE.

By His Excellency the Right Honourable JOHN Earl of DUNMORE, His Majesty' s Lieutenant and Governour-General of the Colony and Dominion of VIRGINIA, and Vice-Admiral of the same:

A PROCLAMATION.

VIRGINIA, to wit:

Whereas the General Assembly stands prorogued to the first Thursday in September next, but it is judged expedient and necessary that they should be sooner convened: I have therefore thought proper, by this Proclamation, in His Majesty' s name, to appoint the first Thursday in the next month for that purpose; at which time their attendance

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is accordingly required at the Capitol, in the City of Williamsburgh, for the despatch of publick business.

Given under my hand and the seal of the Colony, at Williamsburgh aforesaid, this 12th day of May, in the fifteenth year of His Majesty' s reign.

GOD save the King.

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