Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, John W. Geary, Governor of the said Commonwealth.

A Proclamation.

Whereas in and by the forty-second section of an act of the General Assembly of this Commonwealth, approved the 2d day of July, A. D. 1839, entitled “An act relating to the elections of this Commonwealth,” it is provided that when the returns of any special election for a member of the House of Representatives of the United States shall be received by the secretary of the Commonwealth, the Governor shall declare by proclamation the name of the person elected.

And whereas the return of a special election held in the thirteenth congressional district of this Commonwealth, composed of the counties of Bradford, Columbia, Montour, Sullivan, and Wyoming, on Tuesday, the 24th day of December last past, under the authority of writs issued in conformity with provisions of the Constitution of the United States sand the above recited act of the General Assembly, have been received by the secretary of the Commonwealth, whereby it appears that Frank C. Bunnel was duly elected to serve as a Representative of the people of this State to supply the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Hon. Ulysses Mercur.

Now, therefore, I, John W. Geary, Governor as aforesaid, have issued this my proclamation, hereby publishing and declaring that the said Frank C. Bunnell was duly elected and chosen in the district of this State in the House of Representatives of the said Forty-Second Congress of the United States, in room of Hon. Ulysses Mercur, resigned.

Given under my hand and the great seal of the State, at Harrisburg, this 2d day of January, in the year of our Lord 1873, and of the Commonwealth the ninty-seventh.

By the Governor. JOHN W. GEARY.

F. JORDAN.

Secretary of the Commonwealth.

The SPEAKER.