CIRCULAR.

NAVY DEPAnTMIHr.
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NAVY DEPAN NFMEHT.


SIN justice to our seamcn, as well as the IN
,erps.s Of the service, requires that Efforts should
BE- made to remedy the Inconvenience which have
resulted Gon the time of enlistment expiring,
while the men are abroad, and no adequate means
Afforded for their return home 1t will be the OBJ
ject Of the Department, hereafter as far as cir.
cdnsances will permit, so to regulate the man.
nn. of our vessels. that time Of the majority Of
The crews Shall expire about the same period, and
to recall the vessels before that period arrives. so
that The men may be in the United States when
their contract With the government enus.
1t will be obviously impossible, that thi, should
be ELECTED in every individual Instance You
ill therefore consider it yoar lay, and i. is here
BY cnoined upon you, when the time Of service OF
seamen, ordinary seancn, &c. expires during your
uulse. to indgcc them. by I'll proper coh,idera
iiuns ta rc-cnter tor tie remainder OF tic cruise.
informing item, az nearly as you can, what will
be is duration. Ii they refuse to re.enter, and
require their discharge, let it be promptly given
10 them, unless urgent necessity exists Tor their
services and you viii procure for them il posi-.
bic. passage in some vessel to the United States,
on tie lowest and best conditions, giving orders on
the Department for tie passage money. Ii they
refuse 10 take the passage, and return home. you
will apprse the Department of it, and of what you
have lone on the subject; and give the like lntor-
nation to the Consul of the port nearest which yon
are, that he may regulate his conduct towards
,hem with a fall knowledge Of the facts


In every instance in which any person is dis
charged abroad, and his passage paid, or he de
,nes accepting the passage, you Will state the
facts in his discharge


am, very respectfully, &c.