The marshal of the District to have the direction of the civic
procession, assisted by the mayors of Washington, Georgetown, and
Alexandria, the clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States, and
such other citizens as they may see fit to call to their aid.
John Quincy Adams, ex-President of the United States, members of
Congress now in the city or its neighborhood, all the members of the
diplomatic body resident in Washington, and all officers of Government
and citizens generally are invited to attend.
And it is respectfully recommended to the officers of Government that
they wear the usual badge of mourning.
DANL. WEBSTER,
_Secretary of State_.
T. EWING,
_Secretary of the Treasury_.
JNO. BELL,
_Secretary of War_.
J.J. CRITTENDEN,
_Attorney-General_.
FR. GRANGER,
_Postmaster-General_.
[The Secretary of the Navy was absent from the city.]
[From official records in the War Department.]
DISTRICT ORDERS.
WASHINGTON, _April 5, 1841_.
The foregoing notice from the heads of the Executive Departments of the
Government informs you what a signal calamity has befallen us in the
death of the President of the United States, and the prominent part
assigned you in those funeral honors which may bespeak a nation's
respect to the memory of a departed patriot and statesman, whose virtue
and talents as a citizen and soldier had achieved illustrious services,
and whose sudden death has disappointed the expectation of still more
important benefits to his country.
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