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That M. A. Healy was then and there duly commissioned and authorized by the 
proper Department of the United States to make said seizure; that all said property 
was then and there seized as forfeited to the United States for the following causes: 
That the said vessel and her captain, officers, and crew were then and there found 
engaged in killing fur-seals within the limits of Alaska Territory and in the said 
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 Sitka, in said district, and turned over to the United States Marshal of 
this district, with the exception of the said 1,679 fur-seal skins, which latter were 
brought into the port of Qunalaska, in said Territory, and delivered into the keep- 
ing of J. B. Johnston, a special agent of the United States Marshal, subject to 
21 the order of the Court, and all of said property is now within the Judicial Dis- 
trict of Alaska, United States of America. 
And said M. D. Ball, Attorney as aforesaid, further informs and alleges— 
That on the 2nd day of September, A.D. 1887, and at divers other times during the 
month of August 1887, J. L. Carthcut and certain other persons, whose names are to 
the said United States Attorney unknown, who were then and there engaged on 
board of said schooner ‘ Sylvia Handy” as seamen and seal-hunters, did, under the 
direction and by the authority of Jas. L. Cartheut, then and there master of said 
schooner, engage in the killing, and did kill, in the Territory and District of Alaska, 
and in the waters thereof, forty-two fur-seals, in violation of Section 1956 of the 
Revised Statutes of the United States in such cases made and provided. 
That the said 1,679 fur-seal skins and other goods so seized on board the schooner 
“Sylvia Handy” 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 burden, and 
her said apparel, tackle, boats, cargo, and furniture, became and are forfeited to the 
use of the said United States. 
Wherefore the said Attorney prays that the usual process and monition of this 
honourable Court issuein the 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 said 
property to 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. 
(Signed) M. D. Batt, 
United States District Atlorney for the District of Alaska. 
(By A. K. DELANEY, 
Special Assistant Attorney for the United States.) 
Dated September 15, 1887. 
Endorsed: H. No. 93. 1. United States District Court, District of Alaska. 
The United States against the schooner ‘‘Sylvia Handy.” Libel of information. 
Filed the 15th September, 1887, H. E. Haydon, Clerk, by A. A. Meyer, Deputy 
Clerk. 
In the United States District Court for the District of Alaska, 
United States v. Schooner ‘‘ Sylvia Handy.” 
No. 93.—Claim. 
Comes now James L. Cartheut, one of the owners and master of the above-named 
schooner, intervening for his own interest and in behalf of those owning with him 
in the said schooner ‘‘ Sylvia Handy,” and appears before this honourable Court and 
makes claim to the said schooner, her tackle, apparel, furniture, and cargo, as the 
same are now attached by the United States Marshal for the District of Alaska, at 
the instance of the Revenue Department of the United States, and the said James 
L. Cartheut avers that he is part owner and master of said vessel, and was in posses- 
sion of said vessel at the time of the seizure thereof, and that he in conjunction 
with L. N. Handy and Joseph Handy and William Thomas are the sole, only, and 
