WAR DEPARTMENT, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, November 25, 1885. I.. The following proclamation of the President of the United States is published for the information and guidance of all concerned: To the People of the United States: EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, November 25, 1885. Thomas A. Hendricks, Vice-President of the United States, died to-day at 5 o'clock p. m., at Indianapolis, and it becomes my mournful duty to announce the distressing fact to his fellow-countrymen. In respect to the memory and the eminent and varied services of this high official and patriotic public servant, whose long career was so full of usefulness and honor to his State and to the United States, it is ordered that the national flag be displayed at half-mast upon all the public buildings of the United States; that the Executive Mansion and the several Executive Departments in the city of Washington be closed on the day of the funeral, and be draped in mourning for the period of thirty days; that the usual and appropriate military and naval honors be rendered; and that on all the legations and consulates of the United States in foreign countries the national flag shall be displayed at half-mast on the reception of this order, and the usual emblems of mourning be adopted for thirty days. By the President: T. F. BAYARD, Secretary of State. GROVER CLEVELAND. II.. On the day next succeeding the receipt of this order at each military post the troops will be paraded at 10 o'clock a. m., and this order read to them. The national flag will be displayed at half-mast. At dawn of day thirteen guns will be fired. Commencing at 12 o'clock m. nineteen minute-guns will be fired, and at the close of the day the national salute of thirty-eight guns. The usual badge of mourning will be worn by officers of the Army, and the colors of the several regiments, of the United States Corps of Cadets, and of the Battalion of Engineers will be put in mourning for the period of thirty days. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: OFFICIAL: R. C. DRUM, Adjutant General. Assistant Adjutant General. 10 GENERAL ORDERS, No. 121. HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, Washington, November 30, 1885. The following order has been received from the War Depart ment: WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, November 30, 1885. By direction of the President the District of New Mexico is temporarily transferred to the Department of Arizona. The administrative affairs of the district will be conducted from Headquarters Division of the Missouri, and the commanding general Department of Arizona will make all his requisitions for the wants of the District of New Mexico to the commanding general of that division. GENERAL ORDERS, No. 122. HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, Washington, December 9, 1885. By direction of the Secretary of War paragraph 1675 of the Regulations is amended to read as follows: 1675. The following rules for computation of time will be observed, when applicable, in payment for services, &c.: 1. For any full calendar month's service at a stipulated monthly rate of compensation (or yearly rate, if paid in regular monthly or bimonthly installments) payments will be made at such stipulated rate, without regard to the number of days in that month. 2. When service commences on an intermediate day of the month, thirty days will be assumed as the length of the month, whether the calendar length be twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty, or thirtyone days, and pay allowed accordingly. 3. When the service terminates on an intermediate day of the month, the actual number of days during which service was rendered in that calendar month will be allowed in payments. 4. When the service embraces two or more months, or parts of months, but one fraction will be made. Thus, from September 21 to November 25, inclusive, will be calculated September 21 to October 20, inclusive, one month; from October 21 to November 20, inclusive, one month; from November 21 to 25, inclusive, five days -making the time allowed two months and five days. 5. When two fractions of months occur, both together less than a whole month, as from August 21 to September 10, the time will be determined thus: August 21 to 30, inclusive (ignoring 31st), ten days; from September 1 to 10, inclusive, ten days-making the time allowed twenty days. 6. Service commencing in February will be calculated as though the month contained thirty days; thus: from February 21 to 28 (or 29), inclusive, ten days; when the service commences on the 28th day of that month, three days will be allowed; and if on the 29th, two days. (See paragraph 1142, Comptroller's Digest, vol. 2.) 7. If service commences on the 31st day of any month, payment will not be made for that day. (See paragraph 1146, Comptroller's Digest, vol. 2.) 8. For commutation of subsistence and for services of persons employed at a per diem rate, payment will be made for the actual number of days. |