By the governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, a proclamation : Whereas from information to be relied on, it appears, that the yellow fever has spread its baneful contagion so generally over the whole of the West-India Islands, as to excite just ground of apprehension ... Given under my hand as governor, and under the seal of the commonwealth, at Richmind, this twenty-first day of May, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, and of the Commnwealth the nineteenth.