ach
half cent, and the same has since the 27th day of December last been
reduced accordingly:
I hereby give notice thereof and that all cents and half cents coined
and to be coined at the Mint of the United States from and after the
said 27th day of December are to weigh, the cents each 7 pennyweights
and the half cents each 3 pennyweights and 12 grains.
In testimony whereof I, the said George Washington, President of the
United States, have caused the seal of the United States to be hereto
affixed and signed the same with my hand.
[SEAL.]
Done at the city of Philadelphia on the 26th day of January, A.D. 1796,
and of the Independence of the United States the twentieth.
Go. WASHINGTON.
By the President:
TIMOTHY PICKERING,
_Secretary of State_.
[From Claypoole's American Daily Advertiser, Philadelphia, December 28,
1799.]
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas the Congress of the United States, "in honor of the memory of
General George Washington," have this day "_Resolved_, That it be
recommended to the people of the United States to wear crape on the left
arm as mourning for thirty days," and "that the President of the United
States be requested to issue a proclamation notifying to the people
throughout the United States the said recommendation:"
Now, therefore, I, John Adams, President of the United States, do hereby
proclaim the same accordingly.
[SEAL.]
Given under my hand and the seal of the United States, at Philadelphia,
the 24th day of December, A.D. 1799, and of the Independence of the
United States the twenty-fourth.
JOHN ADAMS.
By the President:
TIMOTHY PICKERING,
_Secretary of State_.
[From the Daily National Intelligencer, December 15, 1860.]
TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES.
A RECOMMENDATION.
WASHINGTON, _December 14, 1860_.
Numerous appeals have been made to me by pious and patriotic
associations and citizens, in view of the present distracted and
dangerous cond