A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 50 pages of information about A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents.

A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 50 pages of information about A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents.

Citizens and strangers.

The troops designated to form the escort will assemble in the avenue north of the President’s house, and form line precisely at 11 o’clock a.m. on Wednesday, the 7th instant, with its right (Captain Ringgold’s troop of light artillery) resting opposite the western gate.

The procession will move precisely at 12 o’clock m., when minute guns will be fired by detachments of artillery stationed near St. John’s church and the City Hall, and by the Columbian Artillery at the Capitol.  At the same hour the bells of the several churches in Washington, Georgetown, and Alexandria will be tolled.

At sunrise to-morrow, the 7th instant, a Federal salute will be fired from the military stations in the vicinity of Washington, minute guns between the hours of 12 and 3, and a national salute at the setting of the sun.

The usual badge of mourning will be worn on the left arm and on the hilt of the sword.

The Adjutant-General of the Army is charged with the military arrangements of the day, aided by the Assistant Adjutants-General on duty at the Headquarters of the Army.

The United States marshal of the District has the direction of the civic procession, assisted by the mayors of the cities of the District and the clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States.

By order: 
  ROGER JONES,
    Adjutant-General United States Army.

CERTIFICATE OF THE DEATH OF PRESIDENT HARRISON.

[From official records, written on parchment, in the State Department.]

WASHINGTON, April 4, A.D. 1841.

William Henry Harrison, President of the United States, departed this life at the President’s house, in this city, this morning, being Sunday, the 4th day of April, A.D. 1841, at thirty minutes before 1 o’clock in the morning; we whose names are hereunto subscribed being in the house, and some of us in his immediate presence, at the time of his decease.

W.W.  SEATON,
  Mayor of Washington
DANL.  WEBSTER,
  Secretary of State
THOMAS MILDER, M.D.,
  Attending Physician
THOMAS EWING,
  Secretary of the Treasury
ASHTON ALEXANDER, M.D.,
  Consulting Physician
JNO.  BELL,
  Secretary of War
WM. HAWLEY,
  Rector of St. John’s Church
J.J.  CRITTENDEN,
  Attorney-General
A. HUNTER,
  Marshal of the District of Columbia
FR. GRANGER,
  Postmaster-General
WM. THOS.  CARROLL,
  Clerk of Supreme Court U.S.
FLETCHER WEBSTER,
  Chief Clerk in the State Dept
JOHN CHAMBERS,
C.S.  TODD
DAVID O. COUPLAND,
  Of the President’s Family.

Let this be duly recorded and placed among the rolls.

DANL.  WEBSTER,
  Secretary of State.

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