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. Barlow, United States marshal, to Mr. Fish, Secretary of State.

[Telegram.]

New York, July 15, 1809.

Secretary of State:

Authorization received. Some two hundred persons are on Gardner’s Island. They refuse to leave on the request of my officers and the cutter. They have robbed the light-house keeper. I must send down a sufficient force to oblige them to leave. I shall act very discreetly. If I cannot get enough marines may I ask for a few troops?

FRANCIS C. BARLOW,
United States Marshal.