EXECUTIVE MANSION, March 3, 1885.
Under the provisions of section 4 of the act of Congress approved March 3, 1883, it is hereby ordered that the several Executive Departments, the Department of Agriculture, and the Government Printing Office be closed on Wednesday, the 4th instant, to enable the employees to witness the ceremonies incident to the inauguration on that day.
CHESTER A. ARTHUR.
Footnotes
1 letter of instruction to United States ministers in Europe relative to protecting the rights and interests of the United States in the projected interoceanic canal at Panama.
2 Read by the Secretary of State before the people assembled to celebrate the Yorktown Centennial.