Treasury Department, Office Of The Secretary, Washington, D.C., September 21, 1881.
As a token of respect to the memory of the late President, James A. Garfield, the Treasury Department will be closed to public business to-day at 12 o'clock noon, and remain closed Thursday and Friday, the 22d and 23d instant.
H.F. FRENCH, Acting Secretary.
[From official records, Treasury Department.]
Order.
Treasury Department, Office of the Secretary, Washington, D.C., September 24, 1881.
In accordance with the proclamation of the President[B] appointing Monday, the 26th day of September, as a day of humiliation and mourning, being the day of the burial of the late President, James A. Garfield, it is ordered that this Department be closed during that day.
H.F. FRENCH, Acting Secretary.
[Footnote B: See p. 34.]
[From official records, Post-Office Department.]