Whereas the final adjournment of the Forty-fifth Congress without making the usual and necessary appropriations...presents an extraordinary occasion requiring the President to exercise the power vested in him by the Constitution to convene the Houses of Congress in anticipation of the day fixed by law for their next meeting
Proclamation 242—Convening an Extra Session of the Congress
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I, Rutherford B. Hayes, President of the United States, have considered it to be my duty to issue this my proclamation, declaring that an extraordinary occasion requires the Senate of the United States to convene for the transaction of…
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