Returning the Flag of the United States to Full- Staff

Proclamation 9556 of December 16, 2016

Returning the Flag of the United States to Full-
Staff

By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

By the authority vested in me 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 full-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
beginning at sunset, December 17, 2016. I also direct
that the flag shall be flown at full-staff on such day
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
sixteenth day of December, 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.