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P R O C L A M A T I O N
WHEREAS, June 19, 2012, marks the 147th 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
16, 2012;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE GARVER, MAYOR OF THE CITY OF
GEORGETOWN, TEXAS, do hereby proclaim June 16, 2012, as the time for
commemoration of
JUNETEENTH
in Georgetown, Texas