TABLE NO. VII.—Claims of provisional claims and allowances as regards vessels captured by the Florida-Continued. The entire gross claim, including the double inadmissible claims, those for gross expected profits, gross freights earned, &c., amounts to $4,173,097 in paper. The total allowance, provisionally estimated, amounts to $205,391 in gold for the vessels, outfits, profits, and freights, and to 82,174,585 in paper for the other claims. ment. Page of at년 Name of vessel. Claims relative to vessels destroyed by the Shenandoah after the month of January, 1865. Claims relative to ressels destroyed by the Shenandoah after the month of January, 1865—Continued. 265 C. Nye 390 93 $75,000 20,000 $218, 125 $7,087 8625 $5,000 $305, 837 Claims for expected profits in case of the vessels captured by the Shenandoah after the month of January, 1865. Double claims in the case of the vessels captured by the Shenandoah after the month of January, 1865. Double claims in the case of vessels captured by the Shenandoah-Continued. I. As regards the claim of the first four whalers, which were simply detained, we have reduced the claim of $386,951 in paper to $67,446 in gold. II. As regards the twenty-four whalers destroyed, the table shows that the sum of $1,954,766 in paper is claimed for the vessels and outfits; but $628,898 must be deducted from this sum as constituting double claims, which leaves a balance of $1,325,768 in paper. Besides the above, the sum of $2,781,269 in paper is claimed for probable gross profits. For gross earned profits $453,550 in paper is claimed; from which must be deducted $35,292 as constituting double claims, which leaves a balance of $418,258 in paper. The claims for the vessels, outfits, and gross profits, both expected and earned, therefore amount, after the double claims have been deducted, to $4,525,295 in paper. We estimate the losses for which this claim is presented at $1,023,318 in gold, of which $856,000 represent the value of the vessels and outfits at the beginning of their voyages, and $167,368 profit at the rate of 25 per cent. per annum, and the wages from the beginning of the voyage up to the day of the capture. The table also shows that there is a claim for personal effects of captains (and, in one or two instances, for those of mates of vessels) which amounts, after the double claims have been deducted, to $103,156, and for damages, $158,676 in paper. As to the claims for personal effects of the captain or crew, they have been allowed to pass in all cases, save six. We can show that in these cases the claims are evidently exaggerated, and we have therefore reduced them. As regards the claim for damages, it is composed almost entirely of the following items: In the case of the Edward Carey the captain's claim, first presented in the month of March last, amounts to $10,000 for damages, in addition to his claim for personal effects. In the case of the General Williams the captain and mate claimed for the first time in the month of March last the sums of $20,000 and $10,000, respectively, for the loss of their probable catch, in addition to their claims for personal effects. In the case of the Pearl the mate and one Gardener, a cooper, claimed, for the first time, in the month of March last, the sums of $5,000 and $1,200, respectively, for the loss of twelve months' time, in addition to their claim for personal effects. In the case of the W. C. Nye the captain claims $5,000 for losses in consequence of the abandonment of his voyage, in addition to his claim for personal effects. In the case of the Susan Abigail there is a claim for $18,716 for merchandise placed on board for commercial purposes, and a claim of $88,750 for the profits which it was expected to realize in such commerce. We think ourselves able to show to the Tribunal that there is ground for the rejection of all these claims for damages. |