GROVER CLEVELAND.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, October 24, 1885.

Under a provision of an act of Congress entitled “An act to authorize the appointment of a commission by the President of the United States to run and mark the boundary lines between a portion of the Indian Territory and the State of Texas, in connection with a similar commission to be appointed by the State of Texas,” Major S.M.  Mansfield, Corps of Engineers, is detailed, in addition to those officers named in Executive order dated September 23, 1885, in obedience to the provisions of said act of Congress, to act in conjunction with such persons as have been appointed by the State of Texas to ascertain and mark the point where the one hundredth meridian of longitude crosses the Red River.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, October 29, 1885.[1]

The death of George B. McClellan, at one time the Major-General Commanding the Army of the United States, took place at an early hour this morning.  As a mark of public respect to the memory of this distinguished soldier and citizen, whose military ability and civic virtues have shed luster upon the history of his country, it is ordered by the President that the national flag be displayed at half-mast upon all the buildings of the Executive Departments in the city until after his funeral shall have taken place.

DANIEL S. LAMONT, Private Secretary.

WAR DEPARTMENT,
  ADJUTANT-GENERAL’S OFFICE,
    Washington, November 25, 1885.

I. The following proclamation [order] of the President of the United
States is published for the information and guidance of all concerned: 

  EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, November 25, 1885.

  To the People of the United States: 

  Thomas A. Hendricks, Vice-President of the United States, died to-day
  at 5 o’clock p.m. at Indianapolis, and it becomes my mournful duty to
  announce the distressing fact to his fellow-countrymen.

In respect to the memory and the eminent and varied services of this high official and patriotic public servant, whose long career was so full of usefulness and honor to his State and to the United States, it is ordered that the national flag be displayed at half-mast upon all the public buildings of the United States; that the Executive Mansion and the several Executive Departments in the city of Washington be closed on the day of the funeral and be draped in mourning for the period of thirty days; that the usual and appropriate military and naval honors be rendered, and that on all the legations and consulates of the United States in foreign countries the national flag shall be displayed at half-mast on the reception of this order, and the usual emblems of mourning be adopted for thirty days.

  GROVER CLEVELAND.

  By the President: 
    T.F.  BAYARD,
      Secretary of State.