SPECIAL ORDER.
NAVY DEPARTMENT, Washington, March 9, 1874.
The President of the United States announces the death of ex-President Millard Fillmore in the following order:
[For order see preceding page.]
In pursuance of the foregoing order, 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 from sunrise to sunset, 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 Thursday, the 12th instant, 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 the period of thirty days.
GEO. M. ROBESON,
Secretary of the Navy.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, D.C., May 27, 1874.
SIR:[82] The President directs me to say that the several Departments of the Government will be closed on the 30th instant, in order to enable the employees to participate in the decoration of the graves of the soldiers who fell during the rebellion.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,