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Down in mercy upon His great Family; to compassionate their sorrows, supply their wants, and unite them all to Himself and to each other in the bonds of His Holy Religion; to bless and increase the efforts which are made to effect this most desirable object, and to hasten the time when “there shall be one Lord over all the earth,” and when all its inhabitants shall unite “with one mind and one mouth” to “glorify God” through our Lord and Saviour [Savior] Jesus Christ.

And the inhabitants of this State are requested to abstain from all labor and recreation inconsistent with the services of that day.

Given at the Council Chamber in Portland, the third day of October, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty three; and in the forty eighth year of the Independence of the United States of America.

Albion K. Parris.

By the Governor,

Amos Nichols, Secretary of State.

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State of Maine

Secretary of State’s Office,

Portland, October 2nd 1823.

Be it known that agreeably to the provisions of an Act of the Legislature of this State, passed on the sixth day of February in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty three, entitled “An Act in addition to an Act to incorporate the Trustees of the Gardiner Lyceum,” Nathaniel Gilman, Esquire, of Waterville, was by the Governor, with the consent of the Council, duly appointed a member of the Board of visitors of the Gardiner Lyceum; and that he is entitled to all the rights, privileges and immunities of a Member of that Board.

A: Nichols, Secretary of State.