As a token of respect to the memory of the late President, James A.
Garfield, the Department of the Interior and the several bureaus and
offices thereof will be closed to public business until Saturday, the
24th instant.

A. BELL, _Acting Secretary_.


[From official records, Interior Department.]

Order.

Department of the Interior,
_Washington, September 24, 1881._

In pursuance of the proclamation of the President of the United
States[A] appointing Monday, the 26th instant, as a day of humiliation
and mourning for the death of the late President, this Department and
the several bureaus and offices thereof will be closed to business on
that day.

A. BELL, _Acting Secretary_.

[Footnote A: See p. 34.]


Funeral Announcement to the Public.

[From the New-York Times, September 21, 1881.]