The following message from His Excellency the Governor came up from the
House, to wit:--
BOSTON, May 22, 1897.
_To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives._
I have the honor to call to your attention the fact that Wednesday,
May 26, at 11 A.M., has been fixed as the date of the formal
presentation to the Governor of the Commonwealth of the Bradford
Manuscript History, recently ordered by decree of the Consistory Court
of the Diocese of London to be returned to the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts by the hands of the Honorable Thomas F. Bayard, lately
Ambassador at the Court of St. James; and to suggest for the favorable
consideration of your honorable bodies that the exercises of
presentation be held in the House of Representatives on the day and
hour above given, in the presence of a joint convention of the two
bodies and of invited guests and the public.