United States Congress (April 23, 1789) the schedule of events for that special day was published in the newspaper, Daily Advertiser:
<On the morning of the day on which our illustrious President will be invested with his office, the bells will ring at nine o'clock, when the people may go up and in a solemn manner commit the new Government, with its important train of consequences, to the holy protection and blessings of the Most High. An early hour is prudently fixed for this peculiar act of devotion, and it is designed wholly for prayer.> 1789US005
On April 25, 1789, the Congressional Committee of Richard Henry Lee submitted the following resolution, passed in the Senate, and two days later passed in the House, giving instructions with regards the Inauguration of the George Washington as the first President of the United States:
<Resolved. That after the oath shall have been administered to the President, he, attended by the Vice-President, and members of the Senate, and House of Representatives, proceed to St. Paul's Chapel, to hear divine service, to be performed by the chaplain of Congress already appointed.> 1789US006
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Endnotes:
1789US005. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). United States Congress. April 23, 1789, article in the newspaper, Daily Advertiser. Benjamin Franklin Morris, The Christian Life and Character of the Civil Institutions of the United States (Philadelphia: George W. Childs, 1864), p. 272.
1789US006. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). United States Congress. April 27, 1789, prior to the Inauguration of President George Washington. Annals of Congress 1789-1791 (Washington, D.C: Gales & Seaton, 1843), Vol. I, p. 25. Journal of the First Session of th Senate of the United States of America (Washington: Gales & Seton, 1820), book no. 50; Senate Journal, under April 27 and April 30, 1789.