[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 140 (Thursday, July 21, 2016)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Page 47687]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-17439]


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                Proclamation 9470 of July 18, 2016

                
Honoring the Victims of the Attack in Baton 
                Rouge, Louisiana

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                As a mark of respect for the victims of the attack on 
                police officers perpetrated on Sunday, July 17, 2016, 
                in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, by the authority vested in 
                me as President of the United States by the 
                Constitution and the laws of the United States of 
                America, I hereby order that the flag of the United 
                States shall be flown at half-staff at the White House 
                and upon all public buildings and grounds, at all 
                military posts and naval stations, and on all naval 
                vessels of the Federal Government in the District of 
                Columbia and throughout the United States and its 
                Territories and possessions until sunset, July 22, 
                2016. I also direct that the flag shall be flown at 
                half-staff for the same length of time at all United 
                States embassies, legations, consular offices, and 
                other facilities abroad, including all military 
                facilities and naval vessels and stations.

                IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                eighteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord two 
                thousand sixteen, and of the Independence of the United 
                States of America the two hundred and forty-first.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

[FR Doc. 2016-17439
Filed 7-20-16; 11:15 am]
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