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By the Governor of Virginia. a Proclamation.
The Congress of the Confederate States of America having passed an act providing that an election shall be held in the several States of the Confederacy, on the first Wednesday in November 1861, for members of the House of Representatives in the Congress of the Confederate States, and that the election shall be conducted in all respects according to the Constitution of said Confederacy, and the laws of the several States in force for that purpose; and the laws of this State having provided that the Court of each county and the Court for the corporation of Williamsburg, and for each corporation in which wards are established by law, shall, before the election day, appoint five freeholders as Commissioners at the Court-House, and the like number at each place of voting in the county or corporation, to superintend the election of members of Congress; and at the time of making such appointment, shall also appoint one officer to conduct suc