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On the same day was filed the following amended libel of information: 
In TuE Unirep Srarres Disrricr COURT IN AND FOR THE DISTRICT OF ALASKA, 
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 
(August Special Term, 1886.) 
To the Honourable LAFAYETTE DAWSON, Judge of said District Court: 
The amended libel of information of M. D. Ball, Attorney for the United States, 
for the District of Alaska, who prosecutes on behalf of said United States and being 
present here in Court in his own proper person, in the name and on behalf of the 
said United States, alleges and informs as follows, to wit: 
That C. A. Abbey, an officer in the Revenue Marine Service of the United States, 
duly commissioned by the President of the United States, in command of the United 
States Revenue cutter ‘‘Corwin,” 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 
72 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’s Sea 
belonging to the United States and said District, on waters navigable from the sea 
by vessels of ten or more tons burden, seized the schooner ‘‘‘Thornton,” her tackle, 
apparel, boats, cargo, and furniture, being the property of some person or persons 
unknown to said Atterney. The said property is more particularly described as fol- 
lows, to wit: 
One schooner ‘‘ Thornton” of Victoria, British Columbia, four boats with oars, 
. sails, and gear; carpenter’s and caulking tools and materials: five tons of coal, ten 
yards of canvas, clock, chronometer, nautical instruments, provisions, sails and run- 
ning gear, ropes, twine, lamps, oil, casks, buckets, engine and gear, twenty sacks of 
salt, 403 fur-seal skins, one hair-seal skin, three pup-seal skins, four rifles, six shot 
guns, and arms and ainmunition for same and all other property found upon or 
appurtenant to said schooner. 
That said C. A. Abbey was then and there duly commissioned and authorized by 
the proper Department of the United States to make said seizure. 
That all of said property was then and there seized as forfeited to the United 
States for the following causes: 
That said vessel, her captain, officers and crew were then and there found engaged 
in killing fur-seals within the limits of Alaska Territory and within the waters 
thereof, in violation of section 1956 of the Revised Statutes of the United States. 
That all the said property, after being seized as aforesaid, was brought into the 
port of Oonalaska in said Territory, and delivered into the keeping of Isaac Ander- 
son, a Deputy United States Marshal of this District, with the exception of the said 
arms and ammunition, which latter were brought into the port of Sitka in said Dis- 
trict and turned over to the United States Marshal of this District and all of said 
property is now within the Judicial District of Alaska, United States of America. 
And the said M. D. Ball, Attorney as aforesaid, further informs and alleges: 
That on the 1st day of August, 1886, Henry Norman, and certain other persons 
whose names are to said United States Attorney unknown, who were then and 
there engaged on board of the said schooner ‘‘ Thornton” as seamen and seal- 
hunters, did, under the direction and by the authority of Hans Guttormsen, then 
and there master of said schooner, engage in killing and did kill, in the Territory 
and District of Alaska, and in the waters thereof, to wit, twenty fur-seals, in viola- 
tion of section 1956 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, in such cases made 
and provided. 
That the said 403 fur-seal skins, three pup-skins, one hair-seal skin, and other goods 
so seized on board of said schooner ‘‘‘Thornton” constituted the cargo of said 
schooner at the time of the killing of said fur-seals, and at the time of said seizure. 
And said Attorney saith that all and singular the premises were and are true and 
within the Admiralty and Maritime Jurisdiction of the United States and of this 
Honourable Court, and that by reason thereof, and by force of the Statutes in such 
cases made and provided, the aforementioned schooner, being a vessel of over twenty. 
tons burden, and her said tackle, apparel, boats, cargo and furniture, became and 
are forfeited to the use of the United States. 
Wherefore the said Attorney prays that the usual process and monition of this 
Honourable Court issue in his behalf against said schooner and all said hereinbefore 
described property to enforce the forfeiture thereof, and requiring notice to be 
given to all persons to appear and show cause, on the return day of said process 
why said forfeiture should not be decreed; and that after due proceedings are had, 
all of said property be adjudged, decreed, and condemned as forfeited to the use of 
the United States; and for such other relief as may be proper in the premises. 
Dated the 20th September, 1886. 
(Signed) M. D. BALL, 
United States District Attorney for the District of Alaska, 
