PROCLAMATIONS. PROCLAMATION BY THE GOVERNOR. Whereas, by a joint resolution, approved June 29th, 1892, it was resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled: "That the President of the United States be authorized and directed to issue a proclamation recommending to the people the observance in all their localities of the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America on October 21st, 1892, by public demonstration and by suitable exercises in their schools and other places of assembly;' And Whereas, the President of the United States, in pursuance of said authority, did on the 21st of July, 1892, issue his proclamation; And whereas, the Executive Committee of the National Columbian Public School Celebration has urged the issuing of proclamations by the Governors of the several States, recommending the people to observe said day for the purposes set forth in said joint resolution of Congress; Now therefore, I, LEON ABBETT, governor of the state of New Jersey, in order to carry out the purposes of said resolution, do hereby recommend that October 21st, 1892, be observed by the people of this state as a general holiday, and day of thanksgiving; that our citizens cease from toil and devote themselves on that day as far as possible to such exercises in their schools and other places of assembly as will properly celebrate the day and carry out the purposes of said resolution. 34 (529) In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the great seal of the state to be [L. S.] hereunto affixed, at Trenton, this twentieth day day of August, eighteen hundred and ninety two. By the Governor, HENRY C. KELSEY, Secretary of State. LEON ABBETT. PROCLAMATION BY THE GOVERNOR. STATE OF NEW JERSEY, EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT. Whereas, Thomas S. R. Brown, who, at a general election held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, in the year eighteen hundred and ninety, was duly declared to have been elected a member of the senate of this state from the county of Monmouth, and subsequently thereto duly qualified as such senator, died on the fourth day of June, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two, whereby a vacancy has occurred in the representation of said county of Monmouth, in said state senate; Therefore, I, LEON ABBETT, governor of the state of New Jersey, by the requirement of law, do hereby issue this my proclamation, commanding and requiring that an election be held according to law in said county of Moumouth on Tuesday, the eighth day of November next ensuing the date hereof, for the purpose of electing a member of the senate of this state to fill the said vacancy occasioned by the death of said Thomas S. R. Brown. Given under my hand and the great seal of the state of New Jersey, at Trenton, the fourth day of October, in the year of our Lord one [L. S.] thousand eight hundred and ninety-two, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and seventeenth. By the Governor, HENRY C. KELSEY, Secretary of State. LEON ABBETT. PROCLAMATION BY THE GOVERNOR. STATE OF NEW JERSEY, EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, TRENTON, Nov. 15th, 1892. In accordance with the law and established custom in this State, the Executive each year sets apart a day of Thanksgiving and prayer, on which the people may rest from their labor and assemble in their homes and places of worship, to acknowledge and return thanks to Almighty God for his goodness and mercy, and pray that he will continue to bless them with abundance and prosperity; Therefore, I, LEON ABBETT, Governor of the State of New Jersey, do hereby designate Thursday, the twenty-fourth day of November, instant, as a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, and recommend that the people of this State on that day abstain from all secular avocation, assemble in their usual places of worship, and give thanks to God for his infinite goodness in the past, and invoke for the future his blessings upon the nation, the state and the homes of our people. Given under my hand and privy seal, at the Executive Chamber, in the city of Trenton, on [L. S.] this fifteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two. LEON ABBETT, Attest: Private Secretary. Governor. PROCLAMATION BY THE GOVERNOR. WHEREAS, the Comptroller did, on the first day of May, 1891, under the provisions of an act entitled "An act to repeal the charters of all corporations that have heretofore failed to pay State taxes imposed upon them by law," approved March 20th, 1891, report to the Gov ernor a list of all the corporations coming within the first section of said act; AND WHEREAS, the following corporations, incorporated under special or general laws of the state of New Jersey, and reported as aforesaid, had, at the date of the ap proval of said act, failed for the space of two years to pay the taxes imposed upon them by law, and payable into the state treasury; AND WHEREAS, the Governor has not given further time for the payment of such taxes to the corporations so reported, and which are hereinafter named, and the same are still in arrears; AND WHEREAS, under the provisions of said act, the charters of said corporations were repealed and declared null and void; THEREFORE, I, LEON ABBETT, Governor of the State of New Jersey, in pursuance of the provisions of said act, do hereby issue this proclamation, that the charters of the following coporations, so reported and in default, to wit: Abbottwood Park, Acme Exhibition Company, Adjustable Telephone Support Company, Eolian Organ Company, Agricultural and Furniture Company, Air Mattress and Couch Manufacturing Company, Ajax Silver Mining Company, Alba Kaolin Company of Pennsylvania, Alberta Cattle Ranch Company, Albuquerque Gold and Copper Company, Alpha Oil Company, Alpha Rink Company, Amazon Coal Company, American Acetic Acid Company, American Carp and Food Fish Company, American Cotton Seed Company, American Dress Extender Company, American Gas Light and Heat Company, American Heel Protector Company, American Illuminating Company, American Investment Company, American Land and Colonization Company, American Lubricating Company, American Magazine Company, American Phosphate Mining and Land Company, American Railway Construction Company, American Railway Supply Company, American Real Estate Exchange, American Sectional Electric Underground Company, American and Foreign Industrial Development Asso ciation, Arlington Turnpike Company, Asbury Park Base Ball and Amusement Company, Asbury Park Building and Improvement Association, Ashland House Association, Atlantic City Gentlemen's Driving Park Company, Atlantic City Ocean Pier Company, Atlantic City Turf Association, Atlantic City and Brigantine Steamboat Company, Atlantic City and Longport Turnpike Company, Atlantic Medicinal Company, Atwood Metal Company, Auburn Gold Mining Company, |