By the Governor of Virginia.
a proclamation.
To afford every facility in the power of the Executive to provide a proper force for the defence of the Capital, and to enable those who are employed in business avocations to devote a portion of each day to necessary drill and discipline: I, John Letcher, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, do hereby proclaim that all the stores and other places of business in the city of Richmond, except such manufacturing establishments as are engaged in ing contracts for this State or Confederate States, shall be closed on each day after the hour of 2 o'clock P. M., and it is hereby ordered that the second class of the Militia shall be assembled daily, except on Sunday, on the Capitol Square, at the hour of 3 o'clock. The force shall be under the command of the senior officer present, and be regularly drilled until sunset each day. Given under my hand and under the of the Commonwealth, at Richmond, the 29th day of May, 1862, and in the 86th year of the Commonwealth.
By the Governor.
my 30-- Sec'y of the Com'th.
