“City Council”
Date
2-21-1812
Newspaper
Charleston Courier
Page and Column
Page 3, Column 1
Newspaper Location
Charleston, South Carolina
Serial Number
350
Abstract
Notice from the Charleston City Council that a day of prayer had been declared. The day would be February 21, 1812.
Transcript
CITY, COUNCIL, 18th Feb. 1812. THE Reverend Clergy of the different denominations, in this City, at a meeting held by them, on Tuesday last, having requested Council to appoint a day to be observed as a day of humiliation, fasting and prayer: It is, therefore, Resolved, that FRIDAY, the 21st instant, beset apart for that purpose, and that the Citizens be requested to abstain from all secular employments on that day, and joint in their respective places of public worship, in humbling themselves before the throne of the Most High, imploring that he will avert from this land the evils which threaten it, from the frequent awful visitation, which we have of late experienced. Ordered. That the above resolution be published in the different papers of this city. Extract from the Minutes. G.M. BOUNETHEAU, Clerk of Counsel.
Recommended Citation
"“City Council”" (1812). New Madrid Compendium Far-Field Database. 343.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/cas-ceri-new-madrid-compendium/343
