Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the President, December 2, 1872, Part II, Volume I

Mr. Field, Acting Attorney-General, to Mr. Milledge, district attorney.

[undated.]

[Telegram.]

John Milledge, Esq.,
United States Attorney, Macon, Georgia:

Two telegrams received. Revenue-cutters will stop all armed vessels, or vessels with hostile expeditions on board, on your request. If you need a revenue-cutter to cruise, make the request on the cutter and at the same time on this office by telegraph.

Telegraph to cutter at Apalachicola to stop expedition from Fort Gaines. Give notice to such other cutters as you think best to be on the watch. If you wish more authority telegraph at once.

W. A. FIELD,
Acting Attorney-General.