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