As a token of respect to the memory of the late President, James A. Garfield, the Department of the Interior and the several bureaus and offices thereof will be closed to public business until Saturday, the 24th instant.
A. BELL, Acting Secretary.
[From official records, Interior Department.]
Order.
Department of the Interior, Washington, September 24, 1881.
In pursuance of the proclamation of the President of the United States[A] appointing Monday, the 26th instant, as a day of humiliation and mourning for the death of the late President, this Department and the several bureaus and offices thereof will be closed to business on that day.
A. BELL, Acting Secretary.
[Footnote A: See p. 34.]
Funeral Announcement to the Public.
[From the New-York Times, September 21, 1881.]