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 1024 rnocnAMAT1oNs. Nos. 2, 3. No. 2. J¤l.Y 2% 1985- BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, A PROCLAMATION. A¤¤°°¤°°'¤°¤*° The President of the United States has just received the sad tidings fflgffh °fG°"°"‘1 of the death of that illustrious citizen and ex-President of the United ` States, General Ulysses S. Grant, at Mount McGregor, in the State of New York, to which place he had lately been removed in the endeavour to prolong his life. In making this announcement to the people of the United States, the President is impressed with the magnitude of the public loss of a great military leader, who was in the hour of victory magnanimous; amid disaster, serene and selfsustained; who in every station, whether as a, soldier, or as a Chief Magistrate twice called to power by his fellow countrymen, trod unswervingly the pathway of duty, undeterred by · doubts, single·minded and straight forward. The entire country has witnessed with deep emotion his prolonged and patient struggle with painful disease, and has watched by his couch of suifering with tearful sympathy. The destined end has come at last, and his spirit has returned to the Creator who sent it forth. The great heart of the Nation that followed him when living with love and pride, bows now in sorrow above him dead, tenderly mindful _ of his virtues, his great patriotic services, and of the loss occasioned by his death. Publiv b¤¤i¤¤¤¤ · In testimony of respect to the memory of General Grant, it is ordered $:b‘:.“t'Q1¥f.‘:_‘;‘fd°“ that the Executive Mansion and the several Departments at Washing— yton be draped in mourning for a period of thirty days and that all public business shall, on the day of the funeral, be suspended; and the Secretaries of War and of the. Navy will cause orders to be issued for appropriate military and naval honors to be rendered on that day. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be ailixed. , Done at the city of Washington this 23d day of July, 1885, and of the Independence of the United States, the one hundred and [U. s. SEAL.] tenth. » GROVER CLEVELAND. By the President: T. F. BAYARD, Secretary of State. N o. 3. August 1, 1865. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, A PBOCLAMATION. Preamble. Whereas, public policy demands that the public domain shall be reserved for the occupancy of actual settlers in good faith, and that our people who seek homes upon such domain, shall in no wise be prevented by any wrongful interference, from the safe and free entry thereon to which they may be entitled: And whereas, to secure and maintain this beneficent policy, a statute was passed by the Congress of the United States on the twenty-ilfth day V¤|· 96. I>· W1- of February in the year eighteen hundred and eightydlve, which declared to be unlawful all inclosures of any public lands in any State or Terriwry, to any of which land included within said inclosure the person, party, association, or corporation making or controlling such inclosure,