320 OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN SEALING VESSELS. 



towards the sealing business, and shall then pay one half the said com- 

 pensation, allowable in respecjfc of the catch of seals, to the said Joseph 

 Boscowitz, together with an amount equal to any moneys which may 

 remain owing to him, the said Joseph Boscowitz, in respect of the mat- 

 ters hereinbefore firstly, secondly, thirdly, fourthly, and fifthly declared 

 to be payable to him, the said Joseph Boscowitz; and as to the other 

 moiety (subject to the said moneys which may be due to the said Joseph 

 Boscowitz) shall pay the same to the said Matthew T. Johnston, Thomas 

 H. Tye, and Arthur L. Belyea; 



And this court doth hereby award a perpetual injunction to restrain 

 the parties to this suit, and every of them, and each and every of their 

 agents, attorneys, and solicitors, from receiving from the United States 

 Government, the Canadian Government, or from any minister or officer 

 of either Government, or other minister, officer, or person whomsoever, 

 the whole or any part of the sum of $203,000.00 (two hundred and three 

 thousand dollars), or thereabouts, or any moneys whatsoever which 

 may come to be payable by the United States Government in respect 

 to the seizure and confiscation of the schooners Thornton, Grace, Dol- 

 pliin, W. P. Sayward, and Anna BecJc, and the cargoes thereof, and 

 other property in the counter-claim mentioned, or from in any way 

 negotiating for any compensation for, or for settlement or compromise 

 of the said claims, or any of them, or any other claim in respect of the 

 said seizures and confiscation, and from making any application to the 

 authorities of the United States, or of the Dominion of Canada, for 

 payment to them, or any or either of them, of any part of such moneys; 



And it is lastly adjudged that the said Joseph Boscowitz do recover 

 his costs of this suit as against the said James Douglas Warren, and 

 that each and every other party to this suit do bear his and their own 

 costs thereof. 



Matt. T. Begbie, C. J. 



SPECIAL PROCEEDING INSTITUTED IN REGARD TO CERTAIN 

 CLAIMS AGAINST THE UNITED STATES. 



DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DIS- 

 TRICT OF CALIFORNIA. 



In the matter of the claims of certain British subjects for compensa- 

 tion from the United States Government on account of seizures of 

 British Canadian sealers, pending in the State Department of the 

 United States. 



Be it remembered that on this 17th day of November, A. D. 1892, at 

 my office, room 61, in the United States appraiser's building, in the 

 city of San Francisco, personally appeared before me, James S. Manley, 

 a commissioner to take acknowledgments of bail and affidavits, etc., 

 duly appointed by the circuit court of the United States for the ninth 

 circuit and northern district of California, Thomas H. Cooper, a witness 

 on behalf of the United States in the above-entitled matter. 



Bobert Lansing, esq., and Charles A. Shurtleff, assistant United 

 States attorney, appeared as attorneys for the United States. 



And the said witness, having been by me first cautioned and sworn 

 to testify to the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth in 



