TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
OFFICE OF THE SURGEON GENERAL,
UNITED STATES MARINE-HOSPITAL SERVICE,
Washington, D.C., May 31, 1879.
To Medical Officers of the Marine-Hospital Service and others whom it may concern:
Official information having been received to the effect that the "plague" which existed in southern Russia is now almost extinct, the regulations issued March 3, 1879,[38] imposing certain restrictions upon the importation of rags, etc., into the United States, are hereby revoked.
By order of the Secretary of the Treasury:
J.B. HAMILTON,
Surgeon-General United States Marine-Hospital Service.
Approved:
R.B. HAYES.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, November 1, 1879.
The sad intelligence of the death of Zachariah Chandler, late Secretary of the Interior, and during so many years a Senator from the State of Michigan, has been communicated to the Government and to the country, and in proper respect to his memory I hereby order that the several Executive Departments be closed to public business and their flags and those of their dependencies throughout the country be displayed at half-mast on the day of his funeral.
R.B. HAYES.