Letter
In the vice-admiralty court of the Bahama., this first day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of our reign the twenty-seventh
No. 4.
In the vice-admiralty court of the Bahama.
| Benjamin Ingraham and others | } | Salvage. |
| vs. | ||
| The Confederate Steamship Margaret and Jessie, whereof William Wilson was master, her tackle, &c., her cargo, &c. |
STATEMENT.
| Agreed value of vessel | £12,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Net sales of cargo | 14,630 | 5 | 0 |
| 26,630 | 5 | 0 | |
| Salvage of cargo | 6,657 | 11 | 8 |
COSTS.
| Judge | £12 | 4 | 0 | |||||
| Surrogate | 1 | 12 | 0 | |||||
| Registrar | £16 | 5 | 6 | } | 73 | 3 | 1 | |
| Registrar’s poundage | 56 | 17 | 7 | |||||
| Marshal | 11 | 10 | 8 | |||||
| Promoter’s proctor | 72 | 4 | 8 | |||||
| Respondent’s promoter | 69 | 5 | 4 | |||||
| Crier | 1 | 1 | 0 | |||||
| Of this | £241 | 0 | 9 | |||||
| 25 per cent., payable by promoters | 60 | 5 | 2 | |||||
| £180 | 15 | 7 | ||||||
| 6,838 | 7 | 3 | ||||||
| Wreck master’s fee | 10 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Total amount paid into court by respondents | 6,848 | 7 | 3 |
In the vice-admiralty court of the Bahamas.
| Benjamin Ingraham and others | } | Salvage. |
| vs. | ||
| The Confederate Steamship Margaret and Jessie, whereof William Wilson was master, her tackle, &c., her cargo, &c. |
I, Joshua Anderson Brook, register of the vice admiralty court of the Bahamas, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains a true statement of the amount of salvage and proportion of expenses paid into court by the respondents in the above case.
Given at the city of Nassau, in our aforesaid court, under the seal there of, this first day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of our reign the twenty-seventh.[seal.]
J. A. BROOK, Registrar J. C. V. A.
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FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session Thirty-eighth
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U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session Thirty-eighth.