Legal Document from California Governor Romualdo Pacheco; November 8, 1875

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Legal Document from California Governor Romualdo Pacheco; November 8, 1875

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Melone, Drury Pacheco, Romualdo, 1831-1899

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Holidays and Observances--Thanksgiving Day

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Legal Document from California Governor Romualdo Pacheco; November 8, 1875

A PROCLAMATION OF
[seal] EUREKA [/seal]
THANKSGIVING.

ROMUALDO PACHECO, Governor,

To the People of California:

Recognizing and respecting a form of reverence that is universal in acceptance, is common to all religious creeds, and is admired for its simple beauty by those who profess none; follow-ing the only custom of sectional origin that has become national by willing adoption, and in accordance with the proclamation of the President, I, ROMUALDO PACHECO, Governor of California, do hereby proclaim and appoint

Thursday, November 25th,

Next, a day of Thanksgiving; and do earnestly recommend to the people of our commonwealth that they devote that day to a thoughtful recognition of our blessings and our prosperity; to the exercise of the noblest faculties; to individual or collective worship, alone or in accustomed sacred places, and to charity and active good will; suspending all ordinary business pursuits and usual occupations. Remembering that the annual observance of such a day was instituted during a time replete with more than ordinary trials and distress, and by a people who perpet-uated it when everything except their own strong faith seemed lost, it becomes us as a com-munity to properly recognize that the record of our closing year is an attractive one, present-ing no feature graver than a happy escape from threatened general misfortune; that our State is in every way prosperous, peaceful, and abounding in happy homes, and that we have abund-ant reason to observe the day in the spirit in which it was founded.

[seal] THE GREAT SEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA [/seal]

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of State to be affixed, at the City of Sacramento, California, this 8th day of November, 1875.

R. PACHECO.
Governor.

ATTEST: DRURY MELONE,
Secretary of State.