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P R O C L A M A T I O N
WHEREAS, June 19, 2010, marks the 145th Anniversary of the day Texas
slaves were officially free; and
WHEREAS, June 1865, commemorates the day General Gordon Granger
landed at Galveston, Texas to take charge of the State of Texas and
announced that Texas slaves were free; and
WHEREAS, Juneteenth will be celebrated by the City of Georgetown,
sponsored by the Georgetown Cultural Citizen Memorial Association on
June 19, 2010;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE GARVER, MAYOR OF THE CITY OF
GEORGETOWN, TEXAS, do hereby proclaim June 19, 2010, as the time for
commemoration of Juneteenth in Georgetown, Texas