794 APPENDIX. PROCLAMATION S. NOS. 47, 48. G ven under my hand at the city of Washington this second day of Jl1E9s L 1 in the year of dur Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, [ 's'] and of the Independence of the United States the eightieth. FRANKLIN PIERCE. BY run PRESIDENTZ IV. L. MARCY, Secretary of State. No. 47. Calling an Extra Session of Uongress. August 18,18:.6. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. Wnniznns, whilst hostilities exist with yarious Indian tribes on the remote frontiers of the United States, and whilst in other respects the public peace is seriously threatened, Congress has adjourned without granting necessary supplies for the army, depriving the Executive of the power to perform his duty in relation to the common defence and security, and an extraordinary occasion has thus arisen for assembling the two Houses of Congress, I do, therefore, by this m proclamation, convene the said Houses to meet at the Capitol, in the city of Vilrashington, on Thursday, the twenty~first day of August, instant, hereby requiring the respective Senators and Representative; then and tléergj to assem— ble to consult and determine on such measures as the state o the nion may seein to require. In testimony whereof, I have caused the seal of the United States to be ereuntoa xe , an swne thesame wit m an . [SEAL] h Bid d'gdh 'h yhd Done at the city of Washington, the eighteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty-first. FRANKLIN PIERCE. BY ORDER: `W. L. MARCY, Secretary of State. N0. 48. Afespecting taking the Sense of the Citizens of the District of golambia for or against the Adoption of the Obde prepared for the istrict. Dec. 24, 1857. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A PROCLAMATION. 1855, ch. 174. WHEREAS by an act of Congress approved March 3, 1855, entitled “An act Vo1.x.p. 642, to unprove the laws of the District of Columbia, and to codify the same," the President of the United States was directed to appoint a time and place for taking the sense of the citizens of the District of Columbia. for or against the adoption of the Code prepared in pursuance of said act, and further to provide and proclaim the mode and rules of conducting such election :— fgpvg, therefore, be it known that I_ do hereby appoint Monday, the 15th day gf Cglégliljy, 1858i, as the day for taking the sense of the citizens of the DISITPICU 1a as aoresai . The pollsjwill be opened at nine o’clock, A. M., and closed at five o’clock, P. M. Every free white male citizen of the United States above the age of twenty-one years, who shall have resided in the District of Columbia for one year next preceding the said fifteenth day of February, 1858, shall be allowed to vote at said election. The voting shall be by ballot. Those in favor of the adoption of the Revised
