152 AVES ISLAND. 



taking their property, and this witliout including Lang's losses, and 

 without including either the guano left on the isle, which was worth 

 several hundred thousand dollars more ; I should say, at least a million 

 of dollars, which I helieve Mr. Shelton and those connected with him 

 could easily have made out of the guano, net profit, if they had not 

 been molested bv Venezuela. 



JOSEPH HEEBEET. 



Subscribed and sworn to by said witness, before me August 6, 1856. 



L. PITKIN, 

 Notary Public. 



State of New York, 

 City and County of New York, 



Be it known that on this sixth day of August, anno Domini one 

 thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, before me, the undersigned, a 

 notary public of said city, county, and State, by lawful authority duly 

 commissioned and sworn, and by law authorized to administer and 

 certify oaths and affirmations, personally appeared Joseph Herbert, the 

 deponent above named, of lawful age, who being by me duly sworn, on 

 the Holy Evangelists of Almighty Grod, to testify to the truth, the 

 whole truth, and nothing but the truth, as is stated in said deposition, 

 and being by me cautioned as to his said oath, according to law, he 

 informed me that he had had read to him and had also read said depo- 

 sition, and the same was also again carefully read to him in my presence, 

 whereupon he subscribed the same and deposed that the statements 

 therein made, and all and singular the matters and things therein 

 stated, were truly stated and not otherwise, according to the best of 

 his belief, and he desired me to certify the same. 



P -, Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official 

 [SEAL. J gg^i ^-^^ J ^^^1 j^. I^g^ aforesaid, 



L. PITKIN, 



Notary PuUic, New York. 



No. 22.] Mr. Fames to Mr. 3Iarcy. 



Legation of the United States, 



Caraccas, October 9, 1856. 



Sir : I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of dispatches from 

 the department to No. 36, inclusive. 



In compliance with the suggestion made at the request of the Aves 

 Island claimants, and contained in your No. 30, I now_ transmit, in- 

 closed, a copy of the guano contract concluded between this government 

 and Mr. J. F. D. Wallace, on the 21st of December, 1854. In look- 

 ing over my dispatch, No. 10, under date of April 26, 1855, in which 

 I gave the department an account of this contract, I perceive that it 

 omits to state expressly the fact, at that time fresh in the recollection 

 of the department, but which now appears proper to be mentioned. 



