Mr. Jones, Adjutant-General, to Colonel Crane, United States Army, and to others.
Washington, August 24, 1849.
[669] Sir: In order to execute the laws and more effectually to enforce the President’s proclamation of the 11th instant, based thereon, the Secretary of War directs that, in concert with the civil authority, you will take such measures as may be requisite and proper within the range of your command, for the purpose of preventing the carrying on any military expedition or enterprise from the territories or jurisdiction of the United States, by any persons within the *same, “against the territories or dominions of any foreign prince or state, or of any colony, district, or people with whom the United States are at peace.”
In order to the due execution of these instructions you will communicate with the United States district attorney; and when called on by him, or such other person as the President shall have empowered for the purpose, you will employ the force under your command to aid in enforcing the said proclamation of August 11, 1849.
Respectfully,
Adjutant-General.
[Addressed to: Colonel J. B. Crane, First Artillery, Fort Columbus, New York; Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Webster, First Artillery, Fort [Page 694] Mifflin, Pennsylvania; Major L. Whiting, First Artillery, Fort Hamilton, New York; Brevet Brigadier-General T. Childs, First Artillery, Fort McHenry, Maryland; Brevet Brigadier-General J. Bankhead, Second Artillery, Fort Monroe, Virginia; Lieutenant-Colonel J. Ewing, Second Artillery, Fort Moultrie, South Carolina; Brevet Major A. Lowd, Second Artillery, Savannah, Georgia; Brevet Colonel 0, F. Smith, Second Artillery, Fort Marion, Florida; Brevet Captain J. Scarritt, Corps of Engineers, Fort Morgan, Alabama; Brevet Colonel J. I. Gardner, Fourth Artillery, Fort Pickens, Florida; Commanding officer at Pascagoula, Mississippi; Commanding officer at New Orleans Station, Louisiana.]