No. 14., this second day of July, A. D. 1863

No. 14.

Bahama Islands, New Providence:

Know all men by these presents, that on this second day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, before me, Bruce Lockhart Burnside, a notary public, by lawful authority appointed, duly admitted and sworn, residing and practicing in the city of Nassau, in the island of New Providence, personally came and appeared the Hon. George David Harris, of the said city of Nassau, merchant, one of the firm of Henry Adderly & Company, merchants of the said city of Nassau, who did declare—such declaration being made in pursuance of the laws of the Bahamas for substituting a declaration in lieu of an oath in certain cases.—

That he, the declarant, is a member of the mercantile firm of Henry Adderly &; Company, of this city of Nassau, and the firm of which he is a member were the consignees of the confederate steamship Margaret and Jessie, on a voyage of the said steamship during the month of May last, from, the port of Charleston, in the Confederate States of America, to this port of Nassau, in the prosecution of which voyage the said steamship was sunk on the north side of the island of Eleuthera, one of these islands, she being then laden with a cargo of cotton.

That as such consignee as aforesaid, the mercantile house of Henry Adderly & Company received in the regular order of mercantile transactions the invoices and bills of lading of the cargo of cotton so laden on board of the said steamship, from which it appears that the said cargo consisted of twenty-eight bales of sea island cotton, weighing eight thousand four hundred and eighty-two pounds, and the cost thereof in Charleston seventeen thousand one hundred and twenty-three dollars and sixty-three cents; seven hundred and twenty-eight bales of upland cotton, weighing three hundred and sixty thousand five hundred and four pounds, and the cost thereof in Charleston one hundred and forty-nine thousand and sixty-four dollars fourteen cents; making in all the gross weight of cotton shipped as aforesaid three hundred and sixty-eight thousand nine hundred and eighty-six pounds, which cost the total sum of one hundred and sixty-six thousand one hundred and eighty-seven dollars seventy-seven cents.