NAVY DEPARTMENT, _Washington, November 18, 1886_.
The President of the United States announces the death of ex-President
Chester Alan Arthur in the following proclamation [order]:
[For order see preceding page.]
It is hereby directed, in pursuance of the instructions of the
President, that on the day of the funeral, where this order may be
received in time, otherwise on the day after its receipt, the ensign at
each naval station and of each of the vessels of the United States Navy
in commission be hoisted at half-mast from sunrise to sunset, and that
also, at each naval station and on board of flagships and vessels acting
singly, a gun be fired at intervals of every half hour from sunrise to
sunset.
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_.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, November 20, 1886_.
_It is hereby ordered_, That the Department of Agriculture, the
Government Printing Office, and all other Government offices in the
District of Columbia be closed on Monday, the 22d instant, the day of
the funeral of the late Chester Alan Arthur, ex-President of the United
States.