The governor shall annually issue a proclamation calling for a proper observance of April nineteenth as Patriots' Day, in commemoration of the opening events of the War of the Revolution and the struggle through which the nation passed in its early days.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 6, § 12J
Patriots' Day
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