82 AWARD AND DECLARATIONS. 



AxxKX A. 



Treasury Departmi<:xt, Office of the Secretary, 



Washington, Jjiril 21, 18S6. 

 Sir: Referring to Departmeut letter of this date, directing yon to proceed with 

 the revenue steamer Bear, under your command, to the seal islands, etc., you are 

 hereby clothed with full power to enforce the law contained in the provisions of 

 Section 1956 of the United States Revised Statutes, and directed to seize all vessels 

 and arrest and deliver to the proper authorities any or all persons whom yon may 

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



You will also seize any liquors or fire-arms attempted to be introduced into the 

 country without proper permit, under the provisions of Section l'J55 of the Revised 

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

 Respectfully yours, 



(Signed) C. S. Faihchild, 



Acting Secretary. 

 Capt. M. A. Healy, 



Commanding Revenue Steamer Bear, San Francisco, California. 



Annex B. 



IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT 



OF ALASKA. 



AUGUST SPECIAL TERM, 1886. 



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



The libel information of M. D. Call, Attorney for tlie United States for the District 

 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, hev tackle, ap})arel, l)oats, cargo, and furniture, and 

 against all persons intervening for their interest therein, in a cause of forfeiture, 

 alleges and informs as follows: 



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

 States, and on special duty in the waters of the district of Alaska, heretofore, to 

 wit, on the first day of August, 1886, witliin the limits 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 ou 

 waters navigable from the sea by vessels of 10 or more tons burden, seized the 

 sliip or vessel commonly called a schooner, the Thornton, her tackle, npx)arel, boats, 

 cargo, and furniture, being the property of some person or persons to the said 

 Attorney uuknov/n, 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 Ahisk-a Territory, and in the waters thereof, in violation of Section 1956 of 

 the Revised Statutes of the United States. 



And the said Attornej- saith that all and singnlnr 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 schooner or vessel, being a vessel 

 of over 20 tons burden, her tackle, apparel, boats, cargo, and furnitnro, 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 ])rays the usual process and monition of this honor- 

 able Court issue iu this behalf, and that all persons interested in the before- 



