[697] *Commandant Newton, United States Navy, to Lieutenant-Commandant Farrand, United States Navy.

[Handed with sealed orders.]

Sir: Proceed to sea at once with the United States schooner Flirt, under your command, and be governed by the accompanying sealed orders, which you are expressly enjoined not to open until after you have crossed the bar and discharged the pilot.

I am, very respectfully, &c.,

  • JOHN THOMAS NEWTON
    Commandant.
  • Lieutenant-Commandant Eben Farrand.