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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. 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. With a view to carry into effect the views of these high officers o
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