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 Engineers, of the several regiments, and of the United States Corps of Cadets will be put in mourning for a period of six months.

The date of the funeral will be communicated to department commanders by telegraph, and by them to their subordinate commanders.

By command of Major-General Schofield: 

R. WILLIAMS, Adjutant-General.

GENERAL ORDER No. 406.

NAVY DEPARTMENT, Washington, D.C., January 19, 1893.

The President of the United States announces the death of ex-President
Rutherford B. Hayes in the following proclamation [order]: 

[For order see preceding page.]

It is hereby directed, in pursuance of the instructions of the President, that on the day of the funeral, where this order may be received in time, otherwise on the day after its receipt, the ensign at each naval station and of each of the vessels of the United States Navy in commission be hoisted at half-mast from sunrise to sunset, and at each naval station and on board of flagships and vessels acting singly a gun be fired at intervals of every half hour from sunrise to sunset.

The officers of the Navy and Marine Corps will wear the usual badge of mourning attached to the sword hilt and on the left arm for a period of thirty days.

JAMES R. SOLEY, Acting Secretary of the Navy.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, January 27, 1893.

To the People of the United States: 

It is my painful duty to announce to the people of the United States the death of James Gillespie Blaine, which occurred in this city to-day at 11 o’clock.