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PORTER, For Secretary of Navy to Hamilton Fish, August 4, 1869
Vice-Admiral Porter, for Secretary of the Navy, to Mr. Fish, Secretary of State.
Navy Department, Washington, August 4, 1869.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication in relation to the Spanish gun-boats.
Orders have been issued to the commanding officer at New York to afford all the aid in his power to assist in preventing their departure, and three men-of-war have been ordered to that place.
I have the honor to be, &c.,
DAVID D. PORTER,
For Secretary of Navy.
For Secretary of Navy.
Hon. Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State.
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U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the Pr.