194 AYES ISLAND. 



These claimants, in addition to all said above-stated items 

 of losses and damages, claim tlie following as further accu- 

 mulated or augmented damages, which have occurred since 

 their statement of January 29, 1855 : 



XVII. By reason of said disturbance by Venezuela of 

 their possession of said isle and guano, and their expulsion 

 therefrom, and the spoliation of their said property by Vene- 

 zuela, and the breaking up their business at said isle, and the 

 great injuries, losses, and damages they sustained thereby, 

 as aforesaid, their other affairs and business as merchants 

 engaged in general commerce and navigation became and 

 were embarrassed, and suffered great prejudice and detri- 

 ment ; and although said Sampson & Tappan have not been 

 so deeply injured by such effects, and have sustained all 

 said losses without suspension of payment, yet the said 

 Philo S. Shelton, by reason of his more restricted means, 

 has, in consequence of the embarrassments caused thereby, 

 been obliged to suspend his said business as a merchant, 

 stop payment, and wind up his affairs, and yield up all his 

 property in liquidation to his creditors, and was greatly in- 

 jured as to his commercial credit and means ; all of which 

 injuries, damages, and losses of the claimants were the 

 direct consequences and effects of said wrongful acts of Vene- 

 zuela, and which it is estimated may be reasonably set down 

 at $50,000, and which claimants therefore charge ; and they 

 insist that the same ought to be allowed and j^aid to them 



by Venezuela in addition to said other charges |50,000 



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

 our attorney in Venezuela.) 



XVIII. By reason of the wrongful refusal of Venezuela 

 to adjust and settle the just demands of the claimants pre- 

 sented to the United States State Department January 29, 

 1855, and reclamation for which was forthwith made by the 

 United States from the government of Venezuela, which 

 opposed and resisted said claim, and by said act made it 

 necessary that the claimants should procure full proofs of 

 the justice of the same ; and by reason, also, of the un- 

 reasonably protracted delay that has ttiken place by the 

 conduct of said government in the settlement of said just 

 demands, these claimants have been constrained to employ, 

 at heavy expense, legal counsel and attorneys, agents and 

 clerks, to give necessary aid in the prosecution thereof by 

 the procurement and collection of the testimony and proofs 

 therein. And that said expenses, to wit : in the ascertain- 

 ment of witnesses and their residences, and when and where 

 their depositions could be obtained, writing depositions and 

 copies, searches for procuring documentary proofs and copies, 

 official fees for depositions and attestations and official copies, 

 conduct of correspondence and copies, legal opinions and 

 arguments in support of claim and in refutation of the ob- 

 jections made by Venezuela, printing depositions, argu- 



