Commanding officers of regiments, separate battalions, and
separate companies will furnish these headquarters with consolidated
morning reports before 10 o'clock A.M. of the 19th instant; will see
that all enlisted men absent without leave are properly dealt with, and
will report to these headquarters the names of all commissioned officers
so absent.
By command of BRIG.-GEN. HARRIES.
CHARLES H. OURAND,
_Major and Inspector General, Acting Adjutant-General._
OFFICIAL ORDERS SENT OUT.
SALUTES TO BE FIRED AND FLAGS LOWERED AFLOAT AND ASHORE.
Secretary of State Hay and Secretary of the Treasury Gage, the only
Cabinet officers in town, held a consultation on the morning of the 13th
as a result of which the following order was issued:
DEPARTMENT OF STATE, _Washington, Sept. 14._
_To the Secretary of the Navy_:
Out of respect to the memory of the President, the executive departments
will be closed to-day and on the day of the funeral.
JOHN HAY.
A similar order was communicated to all the heads and acting heads of
the executive departments in Washington by government telegraph.
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