Orders for Captain Richard Dale: Page #2

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unlawful Proceedings, and to defend [undecipherable] or retake the Vessel pursues, attacked or capture and send in the offending Vessel, to some port of the United States, to be delt with according to Law, in such Cases. --

2. If on the high Seas, you are attacked by any armed Vessel whatever, you are to defend Yourself to the Utmost. If the Assailant Strikes, examine his Papers, and if She has not a regular Commission, and then in force, bring her into some part of the United States, to be tried as a Pirate.

3. You will consider your Cruising Ground till further orders, to be, between the Capes of Virginia and Long Island and will change your Course, from time to Time, so as to afford the best Protection in your power to our jurisdictional Rights, and especially to all Vessels of the United States, in coming in or going off the Coast. --

4. On the twelfth of June, you [undecipherable] if possible to be at the Capes of Delaware, [undecipherable] Cape Henlopen & Cape James - and [undecipherable] wait for additional orders from the [undecipherable]