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Jrcfiidnit of the ||nitiul Jjfateii

On the 4th of March, 1869.

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ARRANGEMENTS

Inauguration qfjhe President of the United States
on the A-th of March, 1869.

The doors of the Senate Chamber will he opened
at 10 o'clock a. in. for the admission of Senators and
others who by the arrangement of the Committee are

entitled to admission, as follows:

Ex-Presidents and Vice Presidents.

Tlic Chief Justice and Associate Justices of the .Supreme Court;
the Diplomatic Corps, Heads of Departments. ex-Members of either
branch of Congress, and Members of Congress elect.

Oiiicers of the Army and Navy who by name have received the
thanks of Congress.

( rovernoi s of States and Territories of the Union, and ex-( rovernors
of States.

Assistant Secretaries of Departments and the Assistant Postmaster
General; the Assistant Attorney General and the Judge Advocate
General ; the Comptrollers, Auditors, and Eegisters of the Treasury ;
the Solicitors of the several Departments ; Treasurer, Commissioners,
Judges of tbe Federal Courts and of the Supreme Courts of tbe
several States.

Tbe Mayors of Washington and Georgetown and the reporters in
tbe Senate.

All of whom will be admitted at the east door of tbe north wing
of the Capitol..

The families of the President, President elect. Vice President pro
tern., Vice President elect, Senators, Diplomatic Corps, Heads of
Departments, and Federal Judges will enter at the north door of the
Senate wing; all others will enter at the main eastern door.

All the galleries, except those for the reporters and the families of
the Diplomatic Corps, will be open to those holding tickets.

Seats will be placed in front of the Secretary's table for the Presi-
dent of tbe United States, tin' President elect, and the Committee of
Arrangement*.

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Ex-Presidents and Vice Presidents, the Chief Justice and Asso-
ciate Justices of the Supreme Court will have seats on the righl pf
the Chain

The Diplomatic Corps will occupy seats on the right of the < 'hair.

next to the Supreme Court

Heads of Departments will occupy seats on the left of the Chair.

Officers of the Army and Navy, Governors of States and Territo-
ries of the Union, ex-Governors of Slates, Assistant Secretaries of
the Departments, the Assistant Postmaster General, the Assistants
Attorney General, and the Judge Advocate General, Comptrollers,
Auditors, and Register of the Treasury, Solicitors of the several
Departments, Commissioners, Treasurers, Judges, and the Mayors
of Washington and Georgetown, will occupy seats on the right and
left of the main entrance.

Members of Congress and Members elect will enter the Senate
Chamber by the main entrance, and will occupy seats on the left of
the Chair.

The rotunda shall be closed, and the passages leading thereto
kept clear.

The other doors and entrances to the Capitol, excepl those to be
open under this arrangement, will be kept closed.

At 11 o'clock the President of the United States and the President
elect, each accompanied by members of the Committee of Arrange-
ments, will proceed in carriages to the east door of the Senate wing
ot the Capitol, and, entering there, will be conducted to the rooms
assigned them.

The Vice President elect will be accompanied to the Capitol by a
member of the Committee of Arrangements, and conducted to the
Vice President's room, and afterwards into the Senate Chamber,
where the oath of office will be administered to him by the Vice
President jtrn t< hi.

The Diplomatic Corps and the Justices of the Supreme Court will
enter the Senate Chamber a few minutes before the President elect.

The Senate will assemble at Pi o'clock.

The Senate being ready, the President of the United States and
the Pre-ident elect will be introduced by the Committee of Arrange-
ments to the seats prepared for them in the Senate Chamber.

After completing the organization of the Senate, those assembled
in the chamber will proceed to the platform on the central portieo of
the Capitol in the following order :

The Marshal of the Supreme Court.

Ex-Presidents and ex-Vice Presidents.

The Chief Justice and Associate Justices of the Supreme Court.
The Sergeant-at-arms of the Senate.

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The President elect, with members of the Committee of Arrange-
ments.

Tlie President of the United States, with members of the Com-
mittee of Arrangements.

The Vice President and the Secretary of the Senate.

The members of the Senate.

The Diplomatic Corps.

Ex-Members of the House of Representatives, and Members elect
to the Forty-first Congress.

Heads of Departments.

Governors of States and Territories.

Officers of the Army and Navy, and all other persons who have
been admitted to the floor of the Senate.

On reaching the front of the platform, the President elect will take
the seat provided for him ; the Sergeant-at-arms of the Senate (in
charge of the ceremonies) on his right, and the Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court on his left.

The President and the Committee of Arrangements will occupy a
position in the rear of the President elect.

Next in the rear, the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court will
occupy the seats on the left, and the Vice President, Secretary, «,nd
Members of the Senate those on the right.

The Diplomatic Corps will occupy the seats next in the rear of
the Supreme Court.

Heads of Departments, Governors and ex-( Governors of States and
Territories, and ex-Members of the Senate, ex-Members and Members
elect of the House of Representatives, in the rear of the Members of
the Senate.

Such other persons as are included in the preceding arrangements
a\ ill occupy the steps and the residue of the portico.

All being in readiness, the oath of office will lie administered to
the President elect by the Chief Justice; and on the conclusion of
the President's address, the members of tie- Senate, preceded by the
Sergeant-at-arms, Vice President, and Secretary, will return to the
Senate Chamber, and the President, accompanied by the Committee
ol' Arrangements, proceed to the President's House.

The Sergeant-at-arms of the Senate is charged with the execution
of these arrangements.
All horses and carriages will be excluded from the Capitol Square.

Should the weather prove unfavorable, the ceremony cf the inau-
guration wil! take place in the Senate Chamber.

RICH API) YATES,
A. II. CKAGIN,
T. C. McCREERY,

Commits e.

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