As Indian Summer Closes and the Last Harvester Brings in His Sheaves ... it is Fitting that We Lay Aside Common Tasks to Acknowledge from Our Hearts the Many Mercies of Providence. I Therefore Appoint Thursday, the Twenty-ninth of November, as a Day of Public Thanksgiving ... Given Under My Hand and Seal of the State at the Capitol, in Hartford, this Nineteenth Day of November ... One Thousand Nine Hundred and Thirty-four ...