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shipped to the island for use thereat in said business ; and 

 likewise for the freight and other expenses incident to their 

 transportation to said isle of said articles, and the time, 

 labor and trouble and expense of landing and taking care of 

 said articles at said isle; and for the time employed and 

 labor and trouble and expense of getting rock at said 

 isle, and for the time, labor, trouble, and expense of con- 

 structing said wharves and pier, houses, sheds, &c., at said 

 isle, and the wages of the guano laborers during the time 

 they were delayed from work till said wharves and houses 

 were constructed, (demurrage of vessels not included 



herein.) $21,500 



From this amount their may be made the fol- 

 lowing deduction, viz : estimated value of the sup- 

 plies, provision, &c., at the isle, consumed by the 

 persons in our employment in the guano business 

 at said isle from the day of the embarkation in 

 June, 1854, of the first company of laborers, and 

 from other different days subsequently, when others 

 were sent out to the isle, up to the day of the 

 return of the last company to the United States, 

 January 29, 1855; and to other days previously 

 when others came back, including some supplies 

 furnished to our vessels and those supplied to the 

 other party on the isle ; and also those given, from 

 motives of humanity^ to the starving and dis- 

 *tressed Venezuelans, before the eviction, (which 

 claimants scorn to charge for, even after the 

 wrong they have suffered,) and those dispensed in 

 hospitality to visitors to the isle in vessels that 

 touched there, (none being sold,) estimated at an 

 average of thirty-five men for the term of seven 

 months, and at $20 per month each, $4,900, and 

 also the value and avails of that portion of said 

 property and supplies of every kind that claimants' 

 agent had any opportunity or was allowed to bring 

 away when expelled, and received and disposed of 

 in the United States, and the value of that undis- 

 posed of, mostly useless and unsaleable, estimated 

 at the outside at $2,000, in all 6,900 



Amount due claimants as above 14,600 $14,600 



Said sum of $14,600, these claimants insist should be 

 allowed to them as the value of the property of which they 

 were despoiled by the Venezuelans at the isle, and that of 

 which they were not allowed opportunity or time to bring 

 away, and which the Venezuelans used, and their losses on 

 the residue as above stated. 



(See depositions before referred to, and other proofs, with 

 our attorney in Venezuela.) 



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