the several churches, fire engine-houses,
and schoolhouses will be tolled, the firing of the minute-guns and the
tolling of the bells to continue until the departure of the remains of
the late Chief Magistrate for the railroad depot.

At 2:30 o'clock P.M. the officers of the army and navy selected to
compose the special guard of honor will assemble at the Pennsylvania
depot in time to receive the body of the late President, and deposit it
in the car prepared for that purpose.

As the necessary limits of time do not permit personal communication
with the public officers of the United States and of the several States
enumerated in the foregoing order, they are respectfully requested to
accept the invitation to take part in the exercises conveyed through the
publication hereof, and to send notice of their intention to be present
to the Secretary of War at the War Department in Washington.

Organizations and civic societies desiring to take part are requested
to send similar notice at the earliest time practicable to the chief
marshal of the civic procession, Gen. Henry V. Boynton, Wyatt Building,
Washington, D.C.

JOHN HAY,
_Secretary of State_.

ELIHU ROOT,
_Secretary of War_.

JOHN D. LONG,
_Secretary of the Navy_.

HENRY B.F. MACFARLAND,
_President of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia_.

ORDER OF PROCESSION.

The procession then started at slow march up Pennsylvania avenue
toward the White House. It moved in the following order:

Four mounted police outriders.

Platoon of forty policemen on foot, Capt. Francis E. Cross, commanding.

Platoon of sixteen mounted policemen abreast, Sergt. Matthews,
commanding.

Cavalry escort from Fort Myer, consisting of Troops I and L, under
command of Maj. Walter L. Finlay. Staff, Maj. Thomas, Fifth Cavalry;
Maj. George L. Davis, surgeon; Chaplain C.E. Pierce, Capt. S.H. Elliott,
adjutant. Troop I, under command of Capt. C.E. Brooks and Second Lieut.
A.S. Fuger, and Troop L, under command of Lieut. W.B. Scales.

Three veteran society representatives, Mr. John McElroy, national senior
vice-commander of the Grand Army of the Republic; Israel W. Stone,
commander of the Department of the Potomac of the Grand Army of the
Republic, and Gen. R.G. Dyrenforth, national commander of the Union
Veteran Union.

Platoon of representatives of veteran organizations, Col. J.T.
Wilkinson, Spanish War Veterans; Col. J. Ed