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By the Governor of Virginia a proclamation.

--The General Assembly having passed an act to change the time for holding the general elections of this State, and having prescribed that the elections for members of the General Assembly and for Commissioner of Public Works for the first district shall take place on the fourth Thursday of the present month (March), and for members of Congress on the first Wednesday in November next; therefore I, William Smith, Governor of the Commonwealth, do hereby proclaim that the officers whose duty it is to hold said elections in the several counties and corporations, and in the several military camps in which troops from this State are stationed, shall hold said elections at the times and places prescribed by law, and I hereby call the attention of all the people of the Commonwealth to the copy of the act hereto attached.

Given under my hand as Governor, and under the seal of the Commonwealth, at Richmond, this 1st day of March, 1865, and in the eighty-ninth year of the Commonwealth.

William Smith.
By the Governor:
George W. Munford,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
The Daily Dispatch: March 3, 1865. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. March 3, 1865. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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