NAVY DEPARTMENT, _Washington, July 23, 1885_.
The President of the United States announces the death of ex-President
Ulysses S. Grant in the following proclamation:
[For proclamation see p. 308.]
In pursuance of the President's instructions, it is hereby directed that
the ensign at each naval station and of each vessel of the United States
Navy in commission be hoisted at half-mast, and that a gun be fired at
intervals of every half hour from sunrise to sunset at each naval
station and on board of flagships and of vessels acting singly on the
day of the funeral, where this order may be received in time, otherwise
on the day after its receipt.
The officers of the Navy and Marine Corps will wear the usual badge of
mourning attached to the sword hilt and on the left arm for a period of
thirty days.
WILLIAM C. WHITNEY,
_Secretary of the Navy_.
In the exercise of the power vested in the President by the
Constitution, and by virtue of the seventeen hundred and fifty-third
section of the Revised Statutes and of the civil-service act approved
January 16, 1883, the seventh clause of Rule XIX for the regulation and
improvement of the executive civil service is hereby amended so as to
read as follows:
7. Persons whose employment is exclusively professional; but medical
examiners are not included among such persons.
And the same is hereby promulgated.
Approved, August 5, 1885.