APPENDIX 901 



Navy Departm ent, 

 Office of the Judge-Advocate-General, 



February 17, 1883. 

 Respectfully submitted, with the recommendation that the finding of 

 the court be approved. Wm. B. Remet, 



Judge-advocate-general. 



Navy Department, February 17, 1883, 

 The finding of the court is approved. 



Wm. E. Chandler, 

 Secretary of the Navy. 

 eighty-fifth day. 



Navy Department, 

 Washington, D. C. Saturday, April 7, 1883 — 10.30 a. m. 

 The court met pursuant to the adjournment of yesterday. 

 Present, Commodore William G. Temple, United States Navy, pres- 

 ident ; Commander Frederick V. McNair, United States Navy, mem- 

 ber ; and Lieutenant Richard Wainwright, United States Navy, judge- 

 advocate. 



The record of the proceedings of Friday, April 6, 1883, the eighty- 

 fourth day of the inquiry, was then read, and. after correcting clerical 

 errors, was approved. 



The court was then cleared for deliberation, and agreed upon the fol- 

 lowing report : — 



In obedience to the order of the honorable Secretary of the Navy, 

 dated March 29, 1883. the court of inquiry of which Commodore Wil- 

 liam G. Tern j ile. United States Navy, is president, reassembled at the 

 Navy Department, at 12 o'clock M. on Friday, the 30th instant, for the 

 purpose of completing the investigation of circumstances of the loss in 

 the Arctic seas of the exploring steamer Jeannette. and the death of 

 Lieutenant-Commander De Long and others of the officers and men. &c. 

 Having concluded the examination of the survivors of that vessel 

 who have recently returned from Siberia, the court have the honor 

 herewith to report its further proceedings, with the testimony, and. 

 after mature consideration of the evidence adduced, find that no modi- 

 fication is requisite in their conclusions reported February 12, 1883. 



William G. Temple, 

 Commodore, United States Navy, president. 

 Richard Wainwright, 

 Lieutenant, United States Navy, judge-advocate. 



