J.D. SIMMS
_Acting Secretary of the Navy_.
OFFICIAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE FUNERAL.
[From official records in the State Department.]
WASHINGTON, _April 4, 1841_.
The circumstances in which we are placed by the death of the President
render it indispensable for us, in the recess of Congress and in the
absence of the Vice-President, to make arrangements for the funeral
solemnities. Having consulted with the family and personal friends of
the deceased, we have concluded that the funeral be solemnized on
Wednesday, the 7th instant, at 12 o'clock. The religious services to be
performed according to the usage of the Episcopal Church, in which
church the deceased most usually worshiped. The body to be taken from
the President's house to the Congress Burying Ground, accompanied by a
military and a civic procession, and deposited in the receiving tomb.
The military arrangements to be under the direction of Major-General
Macomb, the General Commanding in Chief the Army of the United States,
and Major-General Walter Jones, of the militia of the District of
Columbia.
Commodore Morris, the senior captain in the Navy now in the city, to
have the direction of the naval arrangements.
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