§ To Maurice Rogers. 13 June 1806, Department of State. “Herewith will be enclosed the instructions which are customarily given to the Consuls1 and also two blank bonds, one of which is to be executed and returned. As the port, to which you have been appointed, has long been a resort of irregular privateers, I have thought proper to furnish you with the inclosed extract of the instructions formerly given to Mr Hill as Consul at Havana, and to request your observance of them within your district.2 The seamen who may be put on shore by the privateers will probably be numerous and their situation such as to call for prompt relief; they will therefore claim your particular attention: more minute directions as to the mode of disposing of them will be found in the circular letter of April 1803.”3