Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1846-12-11


By the President of the United States of America:
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas, by the act of Congress. approved July 8.
1916 entitled IAN act TO retrocede the county
of Alexandria in the District of Columbia, to
the State of Virginia" it is enacted, That, with
the assent of the people of the county and town
of Alexandra, to be ascertained in the manner
therein prescribed all that portion of the District
of Columbia coded to the United States by the
State of Virginia, and all the rights and iurisdic-
ton Herewith ceded over the same, shall be &C.
ded and forever renquished to the State of Vir-
ginia in full and absolute right and jurisdiction,
as well of soil as of persons residing or to to re-
sid thereon: And whereas, it is further provi-
ded, that the said act 'shall not be in force un-
til after the assent of the people of the county
ard town eff Alexandra shall be given to it, in
the mode therein provided - and ifa majority
of the votes should be in favor of accepting the
provisions of the said act it shall be the duty of
the President to make proclamation of the fact {:
And whereas, on the 18th day of August, 1916,
after the close of the late session of the Congress
of the United States duly appointed five citizens
of the county or town of Alexandra, being free
holders within the same, commissioners who, be-
ing duly sworn to perform the duties imposed on
them, as prescribed in the said act, did proceed
within ten days after they were notified, to fix
upon the first and second days of September, 1916,
the time; the Courthouse of the county of Al
exandria as the ace, and viva voce as the manner
of voting; and gave due notice of the same and at
the time, and at the place, in conformity with the
said notice. the said Commissioners presiding & de-
Gliding all questions arising in relat on to the right
of voting under the said act the votes of the cti
zens qualified to vote were taken viva voce, and
rlo1 roll hooty I.,l1, 1oCf and fho
third day or September instant, after the said pol
were closed, the said Commissioners did make out,
and on the next day did transmit to me, a state
ment of the polls so held, upon oath, and under
their seals and of the votes so cast and pol!ed,
there were, in favor of accepting the provisions of
the said act, seven bundled and sixty-three votes,
and against accepting the same two hundred and
Notwithstanding majority of five hundred
and tortyone votes for the acceptance ofthe same.
Now, THEREFORE. BE 1T KNOWN; that j.
JAMES X. POLK, President ofthe United States
of America il fulfilment of the duty imposed up
on me by the said act of Congress, do hereby
make Proclamation of the result of said 'poll,
as above stated and do call upon all and singular
the persons whom it doth or may concern, to take
notice. that the act aforesaid is in full force and
effect
In WITNESS WHEREOF, have hereunto set my
hand and caused the seal of the United-states tc
be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this seventh day
of September, in the year of our Lord one
sEAL.] thousand eight hundred and forty six, ant
of the independence of the United States
the seventy-first.
JAMES X. POLK.
By the President:
N. p. Tn1sr, Acting Secretary Of State.