It is due to this officer to state that at the period of the passage of the law of December, 1861, he was and still is absent on duty on a foreign station, and the certificate of his age required by the Navy Department was only received a few days since.
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Fourth. That the naval forces at Charleston and their commander on that station be invited to participate in the ceremonies of the occasion.
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