The North-Carolina standard., 1847-02-24

By The President ofthe United Staies Of 4merica:
A PROCLAMATION. nt
Whereas by the act of Congress, approved July
9, 1916, entitled San act TO relrocrde the conn
ty 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 Alexandria, 10 be asccrained 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 jurisdiction Herewith coded over the
same, shall be coded and forever relinquished
to the State of Virginia in full and absolute
right and jurisdiction, as well of soil as Of per-
sons residing or 10 reside thereon: And where
as it is further provide d. that the said act, "shall
not be in force until after the assent of the pco-
pie of the county and town of Alexandria shall
be gi ven 10 it, in the mode therein provided ~
and if majority of the should be in El-
vor of accepting the provisions of the said act,
it shall be the duty of the President to make
proc amation Of the fact: ....--.
And whereas, on the l7th day of August, 1916.
after the close of the late session of Congress of the
United States, duly appointed five citizens of the
county or town of Alexandria, being freehoders
within the same, as commissioners, who, bring
duly sworn to perform the duties imposed on them,
as prescribed in the said act, did proceed within
len days after they were notified, to fix upon the
first and second DAYS of September 1896 as the
time; the Courthouse of the county of Alexandria,
as the place and viva the manner Of vot-
ing; and gave due notice of the same; and at the
time, and at the place, in conformity with the said
notice, :hc said Commissioners presiding, and de-
Gliding all questions arising in relation to the right
Of voting under the said act the votes of the ciii-
zens qualified TO vote were taken viva voce, and
recorded in poll books, duly kept, and on the third
day of September instant, after the said polls were
closed, the said. Commissioners did make out and
on the next day did transmit to me- a statement oil
the polls so held, upon oath, and under their seals
and of the votes so cast and poled, there were, in
favor of accepting the provisions of the said act
seven hundred and sixty-three votes, and against
accepting the same two hundred and twentv-two-
showing majority of five hundred and forty-one
votes for the acceptance Of the same.
! Now, therefore, be it known that l. JAMES K
POLK, President of the United States OF America
in fu6lment of the duty imposed upon me by the
said act Of Congress, do hereby make Proclama
lion of the "result" of said "poII,'' as above
stated and do call upon all and singular the per
sons whom it doth or may concern to take notice
that the act aforesaid I" is in full force and effect
In witness whereof l have hereunto set my
hand and caused the seal of the United Stale:
TO be affixed. -...
| Done at the City of Washington, this seventh
| day of September in the year Of our Lord
fem one thousand eight hundred and fortv-six
and of the Independence Of the United
States, the seventy-first
JAMES K POLK.
BY the President:
M r o.