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830 DECLARATION—EMPIRE OF RUSSIA. Proclamation. Now, therefore, I, ULYSSES S. GRANT, President of the United States, have caused the said Declaration to be made public, to the end that the same, and every clause and part thereof', may be observed and fulfilled » with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be atiixed. 4 Done at the city of Washington this twenty-fourth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sev- [SEAL.] enty-four, and of the Independence of the United States of America the ninety-ninth. i U, S. GRANT. By the President: Hnmmou Frsu, . - Secretary of smw.