_Ordered_, That, owing to the death of President James A. Garfield, this
Department be closed for all public business until after the funeral
party shall have left Washington for Ohio.

RICHD. A. ELMER,
_Acting Postmaster-General_.


[From official records, Post-Office Department.]

POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT,
_Washington, D.C., September 24, 1881._

_Ordered_, That, in conformity with the action of other executive
branches of the Government, this Department be closed on Monday next,
the 26th instant, and that the day be fittingly observed by all persons
connected therewith as the occasion of the consignment to their final
resting place of the remains of the late beloved and honored Chief
Magistrate of the United States, James A. Garfield.

RICHD. A. ELMER, _Acting Postmaster-General._


[From official records, Interior Department.]

Order.

Department of the Interior,
_Washington, September 20, 1881._