APPENDIX. 407 



No. 2. 



GENERAL ORDER No. 1. 



United States Steam Frigate Mississippi, 



At Sea, December 22, 1852. 

 In promulgating the subjoined extract from the instructions addressed to me by the honorable 

 Secretary of the Navy, and bearing date the 13th ultimo, I have to enjoin upon all officers and 

 other persons attached to the vessels under my command, or in any way connected with the 

 squadron, a most rigid adherence to all the requirements of said order. 



Whatever notes or drawings may be prepared by the officers or other persons before men- 

 tioned, whether by special order or their own volition, will be endorsed by the respective parties, 

 and transmitted through the captain of the fleet to the commander-in-chief, who will in due 

 time lodge them at the Navy Department, from whence they may or may not be reclaimed, as 

 it may be deemed expedient by the government. 



All curiosities and specimens of natural history are also to become the property of the United 

 States, unless voluntarily relinquished by the commander-in-chief. 



M. C. PEERY, 

 Commander-in-chief United States naval forces 



stationed in the East Indies and China seas. 



Extract from instructions of the Secretary of the Navy. 



" A subject of great importance to the success of the expedition will present itself to your 

 mind in relation to communications to the prints and newspapers touching the movements of 

 your squadron, as well as in relation to all matters connected with the discipline and internal 

 regulations of the vessels composing it. You will, therefore, enjoin upon all under your com- 

 mand to abstain from writing to friends and others upon those subjects. The journals and 

 private notes of the officers and other persons in the expedition must be considered as belonging 

 to the government until permission shall be received from the Navy Department to publish 

 them." 



GENERAL ORDER No. 2. 



United States Steam Frigate Mississippi, 



At Sea, December 23, 1852. 



Entertaining the opinion that if the talents and acquirements of the officers of the squadron 

 are properly developed and brought into action, they will be found equal to a plain and practical 

 examination and elucidation of the various objects pertaining to the arts and sciences that may 

 come under their observation during the present cruise, and being aware of the limited accom- 

 modations of the vessels under my command, I have invariably objected to the employment of 

 persons drawn from civil life to conduct those departments more immediately connected with 

 science. 



Therefore, I have to request and to direct that each officer of the respective ships may employ 

 such portions of his time as may be spared from his regular duties and proper hours of relaxa- 

 tion in contributing to the general mass of information which it is desirable to collect, and, in 



