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a judgement thereon when reported to me; and Lieutenant Tetley having stated by Letter to me of the 20th Instant your having made him a Prisoner of the Ship: It is my Orders that when any Officer belonging to His Majesty's Ship Porpoise under my Command be put in arrest, or confined prisoner to the Ship I am to be informed thereof immediately, and in case of my absence from Head Quarters through my Aid-du-Camp.
And you not having made any report to me of Lieutenant Tetley being confined to the Ship, you will allow that Officer the usual recreation when he can be spared from his Duty.
Given under my Hand at Government
House Sydney in New South Wales
this 23rd of December 1806.
(Signed) Wm Bligh
To Joseph Short. Esqr
Commander of His Majesty's Ship - Porpoise
Attested Wm Bligh