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On the 10th of October, the following note was sent to Lieutenant, who ordered it to be read to the prisoners:

, New York, October 10th, 1861.

"Sir:— "I am directed by Colonel Burke to say to you, that you can inform the prisoners, that their Petition has been forwarded, through Colonel Townsend, to the President United States.

"Very respectfully,

" P.S.—Colonel presumed that boat has brought you a supply of water.

Of the gentlemen who signed the above remonstrance, which Colonel Burke thought proper to term a "Petition," many were members of the Maryland Legislature; a large number were, up to the time of their incarceration, officers of the Navy; and others were men of high social or political position in their respective States. No reply was ever received from Washington.

The rules to which we were expected to conform, were posted on the walls of the different batteries and casemates. They read as follows: