By the President:
HAMILTON FISH,
_Secretary of State_.
II. In compliance with the President's instructions, the troops will be
paraded at 10 o'clock a.m. on the day after the receipt of this order at
each military post, when the order will be read to them, and the labors
of that day will thereafter cease.
The national flag will be displayed at half-staff.
At dawn of day thirteen guns will be fired, and afterwards at intervals
of thirty minutes between the rising and setting sun a single gun, and
at the close of the day a national salute of thirty-seven guns.
The officers of the Army will wear crape on the left arm and on their
swords and the colors of the several regiments will be put in mourning
for the period of thirty days.
By order of the Secretary of War:
E.D. TOWNSEND,
_Adjutant-General_.
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.
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