A proclamation. By the president of the United States of America Whereas the Congress of the United States have this day resolved, "that it be recommended to the people of the United States to assemble on the twenty-second day of February next ... publickly to testify their grief for the death of Gen. George Washington ... therefore, I ... do hereby proclaim the same accordingly. Given under my hand and the seal of the United States, at Philadelphia, the sixth day of January ... one thousand eight hundred.