IN accordance with what has been for centuries the pious custom of this Commonwealth...

State of Connecticut

By His Excellency SIMEON E. BALDWIN GOVERNOR

A Proclamation

IN accordance with what has been for centuries the pious custom of this Commonwealth, I appoint Friday, the fourteenth day of April next, as a day of Fasting and Prayer and I recommend the people to use what thus becomes a legal holiday as, in the original sense of that word, a holy-day, to be especially consecrated to the worship and the service of God.

Given under my hand and the seal of the State, at the Capitol, in Hartford, this twenty-third day of March, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and eleven, and of the independence of the United States, the one hundred and thirty-fifth.

SIMEON E. BALDWIN.

By His Excellency's Command, MATTHEW H. ROGERS, Secretary.

See Also:

God In America

and

God In America II