ing goods, labor, preparing invoice, printing catalogues, &c., for sale, as per his account 952 54 3,113 66 62,829 86 Amounting to three thousand one hundred and thirteen dollars and sixtysix cents, which deducted from gross amount of sales, leaves a balance of sixty-two thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine dollars and eighty-six cents, which balance I have paid over to Josiah Hook, esq., collector, as per his receipt below, to be disposed of according to law. JANUARY 14, 1815. HY. THORNTON, PORTLAND, January 14, 1815. Received of Henry Thornton, marshal of Maine, the sum of sixty-two thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine dollars and eighty-six cents, being the above balance of $62,829 86, to be disposed of according to law, and have signed duplicates. I have also received twelve hundred dollars, made up in court bill of costs, and nine hundred and fifty-two dollars and fifty-four cents, costs of transporting goods from Warren and Newcastle, and other costs and charges, as per my account, and received twenty-four dollars, commissioner's fees. UNITED STATES, MAINE DISTRICT, SS: JOSIAH HOOK, Collector. DISTRICT CLERK'S OFFICE, August 17, 1837. In testimony that the foregoing is truly copied from the original on file in this office, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of the district court, the day and year above written. No. 15. JOHN MUSSEY, Clerk U. S. Courts. DISTRICT OF MAINE, SS. The President of the United States of America to the Marshal of our District of Maine, or his deputy, greeting : [L. S.] Whereas, by the sentence of our judge of our district court, begun and holden at Wiscasset, within and for our district of Maine, on the last Tuesday of February, 1815, a decree of condemnation was obtained by the United States against three trunks of goods marked X and numbered 378, 379, and 380, (part of the cargo of the sloop Mary, condemned at the last December term of our said court,) seized by the collector of Penobscot, and libelled as enemy's property, and decreed forfeited to said United States -one moiety to their use, and the other moiety to the said collector, as to us appears of record, whereof execution remains to be done : We command you, therefore, that you cause the said three trunks, with their contents, to be sold at public auction, to the highest bidder, at Portland, within our said district, after first giving public notice of the time and place of such sale, as our law directs. And the moneys arising from said sale, after deducting fifty-three dollars and fifty-eight cents, the costs of prosecution, and one dollar for this precept, together with your own proper fees and charges, you will dispose of as follows, viz: one moiety to be paid into the treasury of the United States, and the other moiety to the collector of the district of Penobscot, for the uses prescribed by our law in such cases made and provided; and make return of this writ, with your doings herein, into our said court, to be holden at Portland, the last Tuesday of May next. Witness David Sewall, esq., at Portland, the tenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifteen. MAINE, SS: H. SEWALL, Clerk. Pursuant to this warrant, I advertised the time and place of sale of the within-named trunks of goods in a public newspaper, printed in Portland, according to law, and on the 12th instant sold the same at public auction, to the highest bidder, according to an account hereto annexed, and the amount of which sales was----- $2,225 33 Which sum of twenty-one hundred and twenty-four dollars sixty-nine cents I have paid to Collector Hook, as per his receipt below. APRIL 15, 1815. HY. THORNTON, Marshal. APRIL 15, 1815. Received of H. Thornton, marshal of Maine, twenty-one hundred and twenty-four dollars sixty-nine cents, in full for the net amount of the sales. arising from the within-named goods, to be disposed of according to law; also, received twenty-eight dollars on the within bill of costs, as storage and for depositions. JOSIAH HOOK, Collector. UNITED STATES, MAINE DISTRICT, SS: DISTRICT CLERK'S OFFICE, In testimony that the foregoing is truly copied from the original on file in this office, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of the district court, the day and year above written. [L. S.] JOHN MUSSEY, No. 16, Clerk United States Courts. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Register's Office, February 7, 1838. I do hereby certify, that Josiah Hook, late collector of Penobscot, has accounted for the forfeiture in the case of the sloop Mary and cargo, and that the United States' proportion of said forfeiture amounted to thirty-two thousand one hundred and eighty-eight dollars and thirty-two cents, as appears from his accounts for the first quarter of the year 1815, filed in this office. T. L. SMITH, Register. |