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That Charles A. Abbey, an officer in the Revenue Marine Service of the United 
States, and on special duty in the waters of the district of Alaska, heretofore, to 
wit, on the 1st day of August, 1886, within the limits of Alaska territory, and in 
the waters thereof, and within the civil and judicial district of Alaska, to wit, 
within the waters of that portion of Behring Sea belonging to the said district, on 
waters navigable from the sea by vessels of 10 or more tons” burden, seized the ship 
or vessel, commonly called a schooner, the ‘‘ Thornton,” her tackle, apparel, boats, 
cargo, and furniture, being the property of some person or persons to the said Attorney 
unknown, as forfeited to the United States, for the following causes: 
That the said vessel or schooner was found engaged in killing fur-seal within the 
limits of Alaska Territory, and in the waters thereof, in violation of section 1956 of 
the Revised Statutes of the United States. 
And the said Attorney saith that all and singular the premises are and were true, 
and within the Admiralty and maritime jurisdiction of this Court, and that by reason 
thereof, and by force of the Statutes of the United States in such cases made and 
provided, the afore-mentioned and described schooner or vessel, being a vessel of 
over 20 tons burden, her tackle,-apparel, boats, cargo, and furniture, became and are 
forfeited to the use of the said United States, and that said schooner is now within 
the district aforesaid. 
Wherefore the said Attorney prays that the usual process and monition of this 
honourable Court issue in this behalf, and that all persons interested in the before- 
mentioned and described schooner or vessel may be cited in general and special to 
answer the premises, and all due proceedings being had, that the said schooner or 
vessel, her tackle, apparel, boats, cargo, and furniture may, for the cause aforesaid, 
and others appearing, be condemned by the definite sentence and decreeof this hon- 
ourable Court, as forfeited to the use of the said United States, according to the 
form of the Statute of the said United States in such cases made and provided. 
(Signed) Ate 1D)s 18yNicie, 
United States District Attorney for the District of Aluska. 
Whereupon forthwith issued the following monition: 
Disrricr oF ALASKA, Sct., 
The President of the United States of America to the Marshal of the District of 
Alaska, greeting: 
Whereas a libel of information hath been filed in the District Court of the United 
States for the District of Alaska, on the 28th day of August, in the year 1886, by M. 
D. Ball, United States Attorney for the district aforesaid, on behalf of the United 
States of America, against the schooner ‘‘Thornton,” her tackle, apparel, boats, 
cargo, and furniture, as forfeited to the use of the United States for the reasons and 
causes in said libel of information mentioned, and praying the usual process and 
monition of the said Court in that behalf to be made, and that all persons interested 
in the said schooner “‘Thornton,” her tackle, apparel, boats, cargo, and furni- 
66 ture, &c., may be cited in general and special to answer the premises, and all 
proceedings being had, that the said schooner ‘‘ Thornton,” her tackle, apparel, 
boats, cargo, and furniture may, for the causes in the said libel of information men- 
tioned, be condemned as forfeited to the use of the United States. 
You are therefore hereby commanded to attach the said schooner ‘‘Thornton,” her 
tackle, apparel, boats, cargo, and furniture, to detain the same in your custody until 
the further order of the Court respecting the same, and to give notice to all persons 
Claiming the same, or knowing or having anything to say why the same should not be 
condemned and sold pursuant to the prayer of the said libel of information, that they 
be and appear before the said Court to be held in and for the District of Alaska, on 
the 4th October, 1886, at 10 o’clock in the forenoon of the same day, if the same shall 
be a day of jurisdiction, otherwise on the next day of jurisdiction thereafter, then 
and there to interpose a claim for the same, and to make their allegations in that 
behalf. 
And what you shall have done in the premises do you then and there make return 
thereof, together with this writ. 
WwW itness the Honourable Lafayette Dawson, Judge of said Court, and the seal thereof 
affixed at the City of Sitka, in the District of Alaska, this 28th day of August, in the 
year of our Lord 1886; and of the Independence of the United State s, the 111th. 
[SEAL. | ANDREW T. Lew Is, Clerk. 
