HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY,
ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE,
_Washington, January 19, 1893_.

I. The following proclamation [order] has been received from the
President:

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, D.C., January 18, 1893_.

_To the People of the United States_:

The death of Rutherford B. Hayes, who was President of the United
States from March 4, 1877, to March 4, 1881, at his home in Fremont,
Ohio, at 11 p.m. yesterday, is an event the announcement of which will
be received with very general and very sincere sorrow. His public
service extended over many years and over a wide range of official
duty. He was a patriotic citizen, a lover of the flag and of our free
institutions, an industrious and conscientious civil officer, a soldier
of dauntless courage, a loyal comrade and friend, a sympathetic and
helpful neighbor, and the honored head of a happy Christian home.
He has steadily grown in the public esteem, and the impartial historian
will not fail to recognize the conscientiousness, the manliness, and
the courage that so strongly characterized his whole public career.

As an expression of the public sorrow it is ordered that the Executive
Mansion and the several Executive Departments at Washington be draped
in mourning and the flags thereon placed at half-staff for a period of
thirty days, and that on the day of the funeral all public business
in the Departments be suspended, and that suitable military and naval
honors, under the orders of the Secretaries of War and of the Navy,
be rendered on that day.

[SEAL.]

Done at the city of Washington, this 18th day of January, A.D. 1893, and
of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and
seventeenth.

BENJ. HARRISON.

By the President:
JOHN W. FOSTER,
_Secretary of State_.

II. In compliance with the instructions of the President, on the day
of the funeral, at each military post, the troops and cadets will be
paraded and this order read to them, after which all labors of the
day will 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 of the sun a single
gun, and at the close of the day a national salute of forty-four guns.

The officers of the Army will wear crape on the left arm and on their
swords and the colors of the Battalion of