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NORTH ATLANTIC BLOCKADING SQUADRON.
me, justified no such rule as that the Army may clear from here with
cargoes of merchandise vessels which brought army supplies. There
seems to be a great disposition to carry on trade here under army
facilities.
I would respectfully ask if the letter I addressed yesterday to Gen-
eral Dix, a copy of which (C) is enclosed, meets the case properly and
obtains the approbation of the Department.
I have the honor to be, sir, very respectfully, yours,
S. P. LEE,
Actg. Rear-Admiral, Comdg. North Atlantic Blockading Squadron.
Hon. GIDEON WELLES,
Secretary of the Navy, Washington, D. C.
[Enclosures.]
A.
U. S. FLAGSHIP MINNESOTA,
Off Newport News, Va., October 6, 1862.
GENERAL: Your communication to me of the 1st instant and its
enclosures, with my reply in copy, were referred to the honorable Sec-
retary of the Navy. In reply thereto the Department writes that my
decision in the matter is correct, and in conformity with instructions
and the law of blockade; that there must be no traffic-no return
cargo; that supplies may be conveyed to the troops, but not to the
people of Norfolk and Virginia. I respectfully request your aid in
your department in putting a stop to all further attempts to violate the
blockade and the instructions of the Department, which I have the
honor to communicate to you.
I have the honor to be, general, with great respect, your most obedi-
ent servant,
S. P. LEE,
Actg. Rear-Admiral, Comdg. North Atlantic Blockading Squadron.
Major-General JOHN A. Dix, U. S. Army,
Commanding Seventh Army Corps, Fort Monroe, Va.
B.
HDQRS. SEVENTH ARMY CORPS, DEPT. OF VIRGINIA,
Fort Mlonroe, Va.. October 6, 1862.
ADMIRAL: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your
communication of this date, and to say in reply that I shall do all in
my power hereafter, as I have heretofore, to aid you in preventing any
commercial intercourse with Norfolk except such as is permitted by
the Secretary of the Treasury, under special permit, granted in con-
formity to the printed regulations concerning internal and coastwise
intercourse, of which I sent you a copy. I have not, since I received
those regulations, granted permission to any vessel or any merchandise
to leave this post for Norfolk, except in compliance with them. The
terms of the instructions granted by you as having been received from
the Navy Department are so broad that I desire, in order to under-
stand the interpretation you put on them, to make a few enquiries for
my own guidance. They state that "supplies may be conveyed to the
troops, but not to the people of Norfolk." Do you understand this29
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