NAVY DEPARTMENT, _Washington, November 25, 1885_.
The President of the United States announces the death of Vice-President
Thomas A. Hendricks in the following order:
[For order see preceding page.]
In pursuance of the foregoing order, it is hereby directed that upon the
day following the receipt of this the ensign at each United States naval
station and of each United States naval vessel in commission be hoisted
at half-mast from sunrise to sunset, and that thirteen guns be fired at
sunrise, nineteen minute guns at meridian, and a national salute at
sunset at each United States naval station and on board flagships and
vessels acting singly, at home or abroad.
The officers of the Navy and Marine Corps will wear the usual badge of
mourning for three months.
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 following rules for the regulation and improvement
of the executive civil service are hereby amended and promulgated so as
to read as follows: