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and arrest and deliver to the proper autlniritics any or all persons whom you may 

 detect violating the law referred to, after due liotiee shall have been given. 



You will also seize any li(iuors or firearms attempted to 1)0 introduced into the 

 country without proper permit, under the provisions of section 1955 of the Kevised 

 Statutes, and the proclamation of the President dated 4th February, 1870. 

 Kesi)ectfnlly, yours, 

 (Signed) C. S. Faihchild, 



Jvtiiig iScei-ftari/. 

 Capt. M. A. IIkaly, 



Commaiid'uKj Eevcnue Steamer Bear, Sail Francisco, California. 



Annex B. 



[See British .'aso, Aiippiulix, Vol. Ill, U. S. No. 2. 1890, p. 65.] 



IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT 



OF ALASKA. 



AUGUST sPEci.\L TKi;.\r, 1886. 



To the Honorable Lafayette Dawson, Judge of said District Court: 



The libel of information of M. D. Ball, attorney for the United States for the Dis- 

 trict of Alaska, who prosecutes on behalf of said United States, and being present 

 here in court in his proper person, in the name and on behalf of the said United 

 States, against the schooner Thornton, her tackle, apparel, boats, cargo, and furui- 

 ture, and against all persons intervening for their interest therein, in a cause of for- 

 feiture, alleges and informs as follows: 



That Charles A. Abbey, an officer in the Revenue-Marine Service of the United 

 States, and on special duty in the waters in tlie District of Alaska, heretofore, to wit, 

 on the 1st day of August, 1886, within the liiuits of Alaska Territory, and in the 

 waters thereof, and within the civil and judicial District of Alaska, to wit, within 

 the waters of that portion of Bering Sea belonging to the said district, on waters 

 navigable from the sea by vessel, of 10 or more tons burden, seized the ship or vessel 

 commonly called a schooner, tlie Thornton, her tackle, ajiparel, boats, cargo, and 

 furniture, being the property of souie person or persons to the said attorney unknown, 

 as forfeited to the United States, for the following causes: 



That the said vessel or schooner was found engaged in killing fur-seal within the 

 limits of Alaska Territory, and in the waters thereof, in violation of section 1956 of 

 the Revised Statutes of the United States. 



And the said attorney saith that all and singular the premises are and were true, 

 and within the admiralty and maritime jurisdiction of this court, and that by reason 

 thereof, and by force of the Statutes of the United States in such cases made and 

 provided, the aforementioned and described s<dioouer or vessel, being a vessel of 

 over I'O tons burden, her tackle, apparel, boats, cargo and furniture, became and are 

 forfeited to the use of the said United States, and that said schooner is now within 

 the district aforesaid. 



Wherefore the said attorney prays the usual process and monition of this honor- 

 able court issue iu this behalf, and that all persons iuterested in the beforementioued 

 and described schooner or vessel may be cited iu general and special to answer the 

 premises, and all due proceedings being had, tiiat the said schooner or vessel, her 

 tackle, apparel, boats, cargo and furniture nuiy, for the cause aforesaid, and others 

 appearing, be coudemued by the definite sentence and decree of this honorable 

 court as forfeited to the use of the said United States, according to the form of 

 the statute of the said United States in such cases made and provided. 



(Signed) M. D. B.\li-, 



United Slalen JJinlrict Altorneij for the District of Alaska. 



