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Proclamation 249—Convening an Extra Session of the United States Senate

February 28, 1881


By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

Whereas objects of interest to the United States require that the Senate should be convened at 12 o'clock on the 4th of March next to receive and act upon such communications as may be made to it on the part of the Executive:

Now, therefore, I, Rutherford B. Hayes, President of the United States, have considered it to be my duty to issue this my proclamation, declaring that an extraordinary occasion requires the Senate of the United States to convene for the transaction of business at the Capitol, in the city of Washington, on the 4th day of March next, at 12 o'clock at noon on that day, of which all who shall at that time be entitled to act as members of that body are hereby required to take notice.

Given under my hand and the seal of the United States, at Washington, the 28th day of February, A. D. 1881, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifth.

R.B. HAYES.

By the President:

WM. M. EVARTS,

Secretary of State .

Rutherford B. Hayes, Proclamation 249—Convening an Extra Session of the United States Senate Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/204745

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