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Programme
for the
inauguration
of the
President and Vice-President
of the Confederate States.

  1. 1st Colonel Charles Dimmock to be Chief Marshal, assisted by four Aids.
  2. 2d. The Senate and House of Representatives will meet in their respective Halls at 11½ o'clock A. M., and then, with their respective officers, repair to the Hall of the House of Delegates of Virginia, which has been kindly tendered by the House of Delegates.
  3. 3d. The President and Vice-President elect will be conducted to the Hall by the joint Committee of Arrangements at 11½ o'clock, and be received by the Assembly, standing.
  4. 4th. The President of the Senate will occupy the seat on the right of the President elect; the Vice-President elect that on the left of the President, and the Speaker of the House that on the left of the Vice-President.
  5. 5th. Invitations are extended to the following persons and bodies, to wit: members of the Cabinet, who will be seated on the right and left of the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House. The Governor of Virginia and his staff; the Governors of any other of the Confederate States who may be in Richmond, and ex-governor Lows, of Maryland; the Senate and House of Delegates of Virginia, with their respective officers; the Judges of the Supreme court of Virginia, and of the Supreme court of any other of the Confederate States who may be in Richmond; the Judges of the Confederate District court at Richmond, and any other Judge of a Confederate court who may be in Richmond; the members of the late Provisional Congress; the officers of the army and Navy of the Confederate States who may be in Richmond; the Mayor and Corporate authorities of the city of Richmond; the Rev. Clergy, and Masonic and other Benevolent Societies, and the members of the press.
  6. 6. at half-past 12 o'clock the procession will move from the Hall by the eastern door of the capital, to the Statue of Washington, on the Public square, by such route as the Chief Marshal may direct, in the following order, to wit:

  1. I. The Chief Marshal.
  2. II. The Band.
  3. III. Six members of the Committee of Arrangements, including their respective Chairmen.
  4. IV. The President elect, attended by the President of the Senate.
  5. V. The Vice-President elect, attended by the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
  6. VI. The Members of the Cabinet.
  7. VII. The officiating Clergyman, and the Judge of the Confederate Court at Richmond.
  8. VIII. The Senate of the Confederate States, with its officers, in column of fours.
  9. IX. The House of Representatives, with its officers, in column of fours.
  10. X. The Governors of Virginia and other States, and Staff.
  11. XI. The members of the Senate and House of Delegates of Virginia, and their officers.
  12. XII. The Judges of the Supreme Court of Virginia, and other States who may be in the city of Richmond.
  13. XIII. The officers of the Army and Navy.
  14. XIV. The Reverend Clergy.
  15. XV. The Mayor and Corporate authorities of the city of Richmond.
  16. XVI. The Masons and other Benevolent Societies.
  17. XVII. Members of the Press.
  18. XVIII. Citizens generally.

Seats will be provided by the Chief Marshal for the Governors of States; the Judges, and, as far as practicable, for the other guests.

The invited guests are requested to present themselves at the door of the Hall in the order above indicated.

At the Statue of Washington the President elect, the Vice-President elect, the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the officiating Clergyman, Confederate Judge, Governors of States, Judges of the Supreme Courts of States, the Chief Marshal and his Aids, and six of the Committee of Arrangements, will take positions on the platform. Prayer will then be offered by the Rt. Rev. Bishop Johns.

The Inaugural Address will then be delivered; after which, the oath will be administered to the President by the Confederate Judge in Richmond, the Hon. J. D. Halyburton, and the result will be announced by the President of the Senate.

The oath will then be administered to the Vice-President by the President of the Senate, who will also announce the result.

The several legislative bodies will then return to their respective Halls, and the President and Vice-President will then be escorted to their respective homes by the Committee of Arrangements.

The Daily Dispatch: February 22, 1862. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. February 22, 1862. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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