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Dear Sir:—

When I arrived here, the 21st, I was in hopes of meeting with some conveyance to Kingston that might have returned before I should leave this; but none such offering, I am now induced to inclose you a naval-officer bond, on which Mr. Jones has commenced a suit, in order to have your assignment to support it. If you could by any means forward the bond assigned to the postoffice

here, so as to be in Wilmington by the first Monday in July, it would answer the purpose.

In order to save your Excellency trouble, I have drawn such an assignment as I think will answer the purpose, but without date; for if it appeared later than the commencement of the suit, it might bear a dispute; but being without any date, no advantage can be taken of it. The assignment must necessarily be later than the date of the bond, which is all that is required.

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