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CITY OF WASHINGTON, D. C.
Wednesday April 7, 1841.

By the extraordinary despatch used in sending the official intelligence to the Vice President, at Williamsburg, and similar despatch by him in repairing to the seat of Government, John Tyler, now President of the United States, arrived in this city yesterday morning, at 5 o'clock, and took lodgings at Brown's Hotel.

At 12 o'clock, all the Heads of Departments, except the Secretary of the Navy, (who has not yet returned to the city from his visit to his family,) waited upon him, to pay him their official and personal respects. They were received with all the politeness and kindness which characterize the new President. He signified his deep feeling of the public calamity sustained by the death of President Harrison, and expressed his profound sensibility to the heavy responsibilities so suddenly devolved upon himself. He spoke of the present state of things with great concern and seriousness, and made known his wishes that the several Heads of Departments would continue to fill the places which they now respectively occupy, and his confidence that they would afford all the aid in their power to enable him to carry on the administration of the Government successfully.

The President then took and subscribed the following oath of office : I do solemnly swear, that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.

JOHN TYLER.

APRIL 6, 1841.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA,

City and County of Washington, ss.

I, William Cranch, Chief Judge of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, certify, that the above-named John Tyler personally appeared before me this day, and, although he deems himself qualified to perform the duties, and exercise the powers and office of President on the death of William Henry Harrison, late President of the United States, without any other oath than that which he has taken as Vice President, yet, as doubts may arise, and for greater caution, took and subscribed the foregoing oath before me.

APRIL 6, 1841.

W. CRANCH.

Election for the Fifteenth term, commencing 4th March, 1845, and termi nating 3d March, 1849.

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James K. Polk, elected President, took the oath of office, and entered upon its duties on 4th March, 1845.

George Mifflin Dallas, elected Vice President, attended in Senate, and took the oath of office on 4th March, 1845.

Election for the Sixteenth Term, commencing 4th March, 1849, and terminating 3d March, 1853.

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Zachary Taylor, elected President, took the oath of office, and entered upon its duties, 4th March, 1849.

Millard Fillmore, elected Vice President, took the oath of office, and entered upon its duties, 4th March, 1849.

Zachary Taylor, President of the United States, having deceased on Tuesday the 9th July, 1850; and Congress being then in session:

IN SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES.

WEDNESDAY, July 10, 1850.

The following communication, received by the Secretary of the Senate, was read:

To the Senate of the United States:

In consequence of the lamented death of Zachary Taylor, late President of the United States, I shall no longer occupy the chair of the Senate; and I have thought that a formal communication to the Senate, to that effect, through your Secretary, might enable you the more promptly to proceed to the choice of a presiding officer. MILLARD FILLMORE.

WASHINGTON, July 10, 1850.

The following message was received from the President of the United States, by Mr. Fisher:-

Fellow-citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives :

I have to perform the melancholy duty of announcing to you that it has pleased Almighty God to remove from this life Zachary Taylor, late President of the United States. He deceased last evening, at the hour of half past ten o'clock, in the midst of his family and surrounded by affectionate friends, calmly and in the full possession of all his faculties. Among his last words were these, which he uttered with emphatic distinctness: "I have always done my duty-I am ready to die-my only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.'

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Having announced to you, fellow-citizens, this most afflicting bereavement, and assuring you that it has penetrated no heart with deeper grief than mine, it remains for me to say, that I propose this day, at 12 o'clock, in the Hall of the House of Representatives, in the presence of both Houses of Congress, to take the oath prescribed by the Constitution, to enable me to enter on the execution of the office which this event has devolved on me. WASHINGTON, July 10, 1850. MILLARD FILLMORE.

A similar message having been communicated to the House of Representatives and the necessary arrangements made between the two Houses:— At 12 o'clock meridian

The President of the United States, the Heads of Departments, the Chief Judge of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, and the Senate of the United States, having entered the Hall of the House of Representatives— The oath of office was administered to the President by the Honourable William Cranch, Chief Judge of the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Columbia,

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