§ The Parliament assembled in accordance with the following Proclamation.
§ VICTORIA, R.
§ WHEREAS Our Parliament stands prorogued to Thursday, the Eighth Day of December, One thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight: We, by and with the advice of Our Privy Council, hereby issue Our Royal Proclamation, and publish and declare that the said Parliament be further prorogued to Tuesday, the Seventh Day of February, One thousand eight hundred and ninety- nine: And We do hereby further, with the advice aforesaid, declare our Royal Will and Pleasure that the said Parlia- 2 ment shall, on the said Tuesday, the Seventh Day of February, One thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, assemble and be holden for the Despatch of divers urgent and important Affairs: And the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses, and the Commissioners for Shires and Burghs, of the House of Commons, are hereby required and commanded to give their Attendance accordingly, at Westminster, on the said Tuesday, the Seventh Day of February, One thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.
§ Given at Our Court at Windsor, this Twenty-ninth Day of November, in the Year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, and in the Sixty-second Year of Our Reign.