By the President: 
  JOHN M. CLAYTON,
    Secretary of State.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas by an act of the Congress of the United States of the 14th of August, 1848, entitled “An act to establish the Territorial government of Oregon,” the President of the United States is authorized to establish such ports of delivery in the collection district created by that act, not exceeding two in number (one of which shall be located on Pugets Sound), as he may deem proper: 

Now, therefore, I, Zachary Taylor, President of the United States of America, do hereby declare and proclaim the ports of Nesqually (on Pugets Sound) and Portland, in the collection district of Oregon, in the Territory of Oregon, to be constituted ports of delivery, with all the privileges authorized by law to such ports.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

[SEAL.]

Done at the city of Washington, this 10th day of January, A.D. 1850, and of the Independence of the United States the seventy-fourth.

Z. TAYLOR.

By the President: 
  J.M.  CLAYTON,
    Secretary of State.

DEATH OF PRESIDENT TAYLOR.

ANNOUNCEMENT TO MR. FILLMORE.

[From official records in the State Department.]

DEPARTMENT OF STATE,

Washington, July 9, 1850.

MILLARD FILLMORE,

President of the United States.

SIR:  The melancholy and most painful duty devolves on us to announce to you that Zachary Taylor, late President of the United States, is no more.  He died at the President’s mansion this evening at half-past 10 o’clock.

We have the honor to be, etc.,

JOHN M. CLAYTON,
  Secretary of State.

W.M.  MEREDITH,
  Secretary of the Treasury.

T. EWING,
  Secretary of the Interior.

GEO. W. CRAWFORD,
  Secretary of War.

WM. BALLARD PRESTON,
  Secretary of the Navy.

J. COLLAMER,
  Postmaster-General.

[The announcement as published in the Daily National Intelligencer of July 11, 1850, contains also the signature of Reverdy Johnson, Attorney-General.]

REPLY OF MR. FILLMORE.

[From official records in the State Department.]

WASHINGTON, July 9, 1850.

To the Hons.  JOHN M. CLAYTON, Secretary of State; W.M.  MEREDITH,
Secretary of the Treasury; T. EWING, Secretary of the Interior; GEO. W.
CRAWFORD, Secretary of War; WM. BALLARD PRESTON, Secretary of the Navy;
J. COLLAMER, Postmaster-General; REVERDY JOHNSON, Attorney-General.