Returning the Flag of the United States to Full- Staff

[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 245 (Wednesday, December 21, 2016)] [Presidential Documents] [Page 93787] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 2016-30953] [[Page 93785]] Vol. 81 Wednesday, No. 245 December 21, 2016 Part IV The President ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Proclamation 9556--Returning the Flag of the United States to Full- Staff Proclamation 9557--Wright Brothers Day, 2016 Presidential Documents Federal Register / Vol. 81 , No. 245 / Wednesday, December 21, 2016 / Presidential Documents ___________________________________________________________________ Title 3-- The President [[Page 93787]] 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. (Presidential Sig.) [FR Doc. 2016-30953 Filed 12-20-16; 11:15 am] Billing code 3295-F7-P