202 JOIIN C. FREMONT. 



" I learned also, in conversation with you, that oc 

 the march from San Diego, recently, to this place, 

 you entered upon and discharged duties implying 

 an acknowledgment on your part of supremacy to 

 Commodore Stockton. 



"I feel, therefore, with great deference to your 

 professional and personal character, constrained to 

 say that until you and Commodore Stockton adjust 

 between yourselves the question of rank, where I 

 respectfully think the difficulty belongs, I shall 

 have to report and receive orders, as heretofore, 

 from the commodore. 



"With considerations of high regard, I am, sir, 

 your obedient servant," &c. 



