Note 49 — CHAP. XXVII. CONDUCT OF THE COURT-MARTIAL.

Inspection of more than one of the logs can leave no doubt, from the neatness of the handwriting, that those relating to the date of the action had been recopied, and could not have been written from day to day; which from the difference in the pen and other little circumstances must have shown itself as in other logs. In one instance portions of the signal book have been transcribed into the ship’s log. G.B. Earp.