GOVERNOR'S PROCLAMATION. STATE OF TENNESSEE, EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, Nashville, Tenn., July 6, 1868. WHEREAS, On page 108 of the Code of Tennessee, the following constitutional provision is found: "The Governor may, on extraordinary occasions, con vene the General Assembly by proclamation, and shall state to them, when assembled, the purposes for which they shall have been convened; but they shall enter on no legislative business, except that for which they were specially called together." NOW, THEREFORE, I, William G. Brownlow, Governor of Tennessee, issue this, my call for an Extraordinary Session of the General Assembly of Tennessee, to take place on Monday, 27th of July, 1868, at the Capitol, in Nashville. Senators and Representatives are required to be there at 12 o'clock, the day and date above named, when I will make known to them the purposes for which they have been called together. The papers selected to do the legal advertising of the State, are directed to insert this Proclamation, each, three times. In testimony whereof, etc., etc., I sign and publish the same, this 6th of July, 1868. By the Governor: WILLIAM G. BROWNLOW. A. J. FLETCHER, Secretary of State. |