Given under my hand the 11th day of August, A.D. 1849, and the seventy-fourth of the Independence of the United States.
Z. TAYLOR.
By the President:
J.M. CLAYTON,
Secretary of State.
EXECUTIVE ORDER.
GENERAL ORDERS, No. 34.
WAR DEPARTMENT,
ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE,
Washington, June 19, 1849.
I. The following orders of the President of the United States and Secretary of War communicate to the Army the death of the late ex-President, James K. Polk:
WASHINGTON, June 19, 1849.
The President with deep regret announces to the American people the death of James K. Polk, late President of the United States, which occurred at Nashville on the 15th instant.
A nation is suddenly called upon to mourn the loss of one the recollection of whose long services in its councils will be forever preserved on the tablets of history.