By the United States of America in Congress assembled. A proclamation, declaring the cessation of arms, as well by sea as by land, agreed upon between the United States of America and His Britannic Majesty, and enjoining the observance thereof.
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Signed: Done in Congress, at Philadelphia, this eleventh day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three ... Elias Boudinot, president. (Attest.) Charles Thomson, sec'ry.
Followed by: By His Excellency Benjamin Harrison, Esquire, governor of the commonwealth of Virginia. A Proclamation. ... Given ... this twenty-first day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three ...
Evans 18242
Journals of the Continental Congress, 402
LC copy annotated with numbers and calculations in ink on verso.
Source: Transfer from Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
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Formerly LCCN tes54-324. qr01 09-06-90