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Given at Washington, the 9th day of July, A.D. 1812.
JAMES MADISON.
By the President:
JAMES MONROE,
_Secretary of State_.
[From Niles's Weekly Register, vol. 3, p. 101.]
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas information has been received that a number of individuals who
have deserted from the Army of the United States have become sensible of
their offenses and are desirous of returning to their duty, a full
pardon is hereby granted and proclaimed to each and all such individuals
as shall within four months from the date hereof surrender themselves to
the commanding officer of any military post within the United States or
the Territories thereof.
In testimony whereof I have caused the seal of the United States to be
affixed to these presents, and signed the same with my hand.
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Done at the city of Washington, the 8th day of October, A.D. 1812, and
of the Independence of the United States the thirty-seventh.
JAMES MADISON.
By the President:
JAMES MONROE,
_Secretary of State_.
FOURTH ANNUAL MESSAGE.
WASHINGTON, _November 4, 1812_.
_Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and of the House of Representatives_:
On our present meeting it is my first duty to invite your attention to
the providential favors which our country has experienced in the unusual
degree of health dispensed to its inhabitants, and in the rich abundance
with which the earth has rewarded the labors bestowed on it.
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