APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. of 
her tackle, apparel, furniture and cargo for amended answer to the libel of informa- 
tion herein, against said schooner, her tackle, apparel, furniture, and cargo, alleges 
as follows: é 
1. That he denies each and every material allegation in said libel of information 
contained ; 
74 2. Denies that the said schooner “Thornton,” her tackle, apparel, furniture, 
cargo, and the property appertaining thereto, as set forth and described in said 
libel of information or any part thereof became forfeited to the United States; 
3. Denies that said schooner, ber captain, ofticers, and crew, or any one of them 
were fonnd engaged in killing fur-seal within the limits of Alaska Territory and 
within the waters thereof in violation of section 1956 of the Revised Statutes of the 
United States as set forth in said libel of information or at all; 
4. Denies that they killed any number of fur-seal or other fur-bearing animals 
within the waters of Alaska or the Territory of Alaska or in any part thereof. 
5. That all and singular the premises herein are true. 
Wherefore said master prays that this Honourable Court will be pleased to pro- 
nonnce against the libel herein and that the same may be dismissed with costs to the 
claimants to be taxed. 
(Signed) W. CLARK AND D. A. DINGLEY, 
Proctors for Claimant. 
UNITED STATES, District of Alaska, ss. 
Hans .Guttormsen, being first duly sworn, says he is master of the schooner 
“Thornton,” that he has heard read the foregoing answer and knows the contents 
thereof and that the same is true of his own personal knowledge. 
(Signed) H. GUTTORMSEN. 
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 22nd day of September, A. p. i886. 
_ (Signed) ANDREW T. Liwis, 
Clerk of the Dnited States District Court for the District of Alaska. 
On the 4th day of October, 1886, the motion cited p. 54 was returned with the 
following indorsement: 
Sitka, District of Alaska, ss. 
3e it remembered, that, in obedience to the annexed monition, I have attached the 
within-described property and now hold the same in my possession subject to the 
order of this Honourable Court; 
And I have given due notice to all persons claiming said property to be and appear 
before this District Court on the 4th day of October, 1886, at 10 o’clock a. M., if the 
same shall be a day of jurisdiction, otherwise on the next day of jurisdiction there- 
after, then and there to make their claims and allegations in that behalf: 
And I have caused said notice to be published, aid the same has been published in 
the “Alaskan,” a newspaper published at Sitka in said District, on the 4th day of 
September, 1886, and in each issue of said newspaper subsequent thereto, until 4th 
day of October, 1886. 
(Signed) BARTON ATKINS, 
Marshal, District of Alaska. 
Sirka, ALASKA, October 4, 1886. 
On the same day was filed the following Decree: 
In THE Unirep Srates Districr COURT IN AND FOR THE DISTRICT OF ALASKA, 
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 
United States v. The Schooner “ Thornton.”— No. 50. 
The Marshal having returned on the monition issued to him in the above entitled 
action that, in obedience thereto, he has attached the said schooner “Thornton,” 
her tackle, apparel, boats, cargo, and furniture, and has given due notice to all per- 
sons claiming the same to appear before this Court on this 4th day of October, 1886, 
at 10 o’clock A. M., at the District of Alaska, United States of America, then and 
there to interpose their claims and make their allegations in that behalf; and Hans 
Guttormsen, the captain of said vessel, having heretofore filed a claim to all of said 
property on behalf of J. D. Warren, of Victoria, British Columbia, the owner thereof, 
