I have to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch N 31 of the
26 of November reporting the arrival of the officer commanding the
United States' Naval Forces in
Puget's Sound, for the purpose of landing eighty seven Indian Prisoners, and I have to approve
the course you
adopted on this
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occasion by declining to allow these men to be landed in
the Colony.