In the list of nominations transmitted to the Senate under date of the 1st instant, Captain Wm. M. Glendy, U.S. Navy, was included therein for promotion to the grade of commodore.
Since submitting this nomination it appears that this officer was ineligible for the advancement to which he had been nominated, in consequence of his age, being sixty-two on the 23d of May, 1862, and under the law of 21 December, 1861, should, had this fact been known to the Navy Department, have been transferred to the retired list on the day when he completed sixty-two years.
The nomination of Captain Glendy is accordingly withdrawn.
It is due to this officer to state that at the period of the passage of the law of December, 1861, he was, and still is, absent on duty on a foreign station, and the certificate of his age, required by the Navy Department, was only received a few days since.
Washington, D.C., 13 December, 1862. ABRAHAM LINCOLN.