TO BRITISH CLAIMS FOR DAMAGES. 131 



zens of the United States, and that, therefore, Vessels seized, 



owned by United 



no claim for damages can be unyed in their be- states citizens. 

 half by Great Britain; that the steam schooners 

 Thornton, Grace, Anna Beck, and Dolphin and 

 one-half of the schooner Sayward were owned 



Relations of Bos- 



by one Joseph Boscowitz, a citizen of the United oowitz, warren, 



and Cooper. 



States; that James Douglas Warren, in whose 

 name the claim is made as to the steam schooner 

 Thornton, had no real interest therein, but that 

 the same was mortgaged to her full value to 

 Joseph Boscowitz, who was in fact the realwitz, uniVed 



-. -, m1 . States citizen, 



owner; and tliat 1 nomas ±1. Cooper, in whose owner, 

 name the claims growing out of the seizures of 

 the schooner W. P. Sayward and of the steam 

 schooners Grace, Dolphin, and Anna Beck are 

 made, had in fact no interest therein and has in 

 no respect been damnified or sustained loss by 

 the seizures thereof, either as owner of these 

 schooners and steam schooners, their outfits, or 

 their catches, the same being mortgaged to their 

 full value to Joseph Boscowitz, above referred 

 to, and having been conveyed to Thomas II 

 Cooper, without consideration, for the sole pur 

 pose of giving them a registry as British vessels. 1 



It is also insisted by the United States that a. j. Bechtci, 



United States citi- 



the schooners Carolena and Pathfinder were in zen > owner. 



1 Deposition of Thomas II. Cooper, post p. 320. Affidavit of T. 

 T. Williams, Appendix to Case of the United States, Vol. II, p. 491 ; 

 post p. 351. Testimony in Warren vs. Boscowitz, post p. 301-320- 



