Department of the Interior

[Translation.]

Resolved, The illustrious President of the United States of America, Abraham Lincoln, having been assassinated just as the cause so nobly sustained by the American people was being crowned by the most splendid triumph, the Argentine government and people, sorrow stricken by the loss that deprives that great republic of the distinguished and important services of so illustrious a citizen, resolve, that in testimony of their deep regret for so irreparable a loss, the offices and other public establishments on which the national flag flies, as also the national vessels-of-war in port, keep, during the day of to-morrow, the 28th instant, their respective flags at half-mast. The present resolution to be communicated to whom it may concern for its accomplishment.

  • WILLIAM RAWSON.
  • RUFINO DE ELIZALDE.
  • LUCAS GONZALES.
  • EDWARD COSTA.
  • JOHN A. GELLY Y OBES.
A correct copy:
EDWARD TBARBAL.