shall I protect persons and property be enforcing the laws of the United States?

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

E. V. SUMNER,

Brigadier-General, U. S. Army, Commanding.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, Numbers 108.
San Francisco, June 20, 1861.

1. Companies F and H, Fourth Infantry, and E, Ninth Infantry, will take post temporarily at the Presidio.

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By order of Brigadier-General Sumner:

RICHD. C. DRUM,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

SAN FRANCISCO, June 21, 1861.

Colonel GEORGE WRIGHT, U. S. Army,

Fort Vancouver:

Re-enstablish Camp Pickett.

D. C. BUELL,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF OREGON, Numbers 13.
For Vancouver, Wash. Ter., June 21, 1861.

I. In cosequence of the threatening attitude of the Indians on the waters of Puget Sound, so much of Special Orders, Numbers 9, current series, from these headquarters as directs the troops at Camp Pickett, on San Juan Island, to embark on the next steamer for San Francisco is hereby revoked.

II. So soon as the public property shall have been removed from fort Townsend the commander of the Massachusetts will be directed to proceed with his ship and report to Captain Pickett or the commanding officer at Campt Pickett, on San Juan Island, to remain until further orders.

By order of Colonel Wright:

JNO S. MASON,
First Lieutenant, Third Artillery, Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF OREGON,

Fort Vancouver, Wash. Ter., June 22, 1861.

Major D. C. BUELL,

Asst. Ajdt. General, Hdqrs. Dept. of the Pacific, San Francisco, Cal.:

MAJOR: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 12th instant, together with the letter of Captain Pickett of the 1st instant. I had much hesitation in the ifrst instance about abandoning the post of San Juan Island; not that its occupancy could have the least effect on our claim to the island, as I look upon that as a point not open for discussion, but it is a salient and