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The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter

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No claim of neutral property in the cargo.

Ship and cargo condemned.
* * * * * CASE OF THE NORA.
Ship under the U.S.

flag; laden with salt, under charter party with W.N.
de Mattos, of London, to proceed to Calcutta.

In the bill of lading the cargo is consigned to "order;" and on the back of the bill is this endorsement:--"I hereby certify that the salt shipped on board the Nora is the property of W.N.de Mattos, of London, and that the said W.N.

de Mattos is a British subject, and was so at the time of shipment.
"(Signed) H.E.FALK, Agent for W.N.de Mattos." At the bottom of the signature is "R.C.


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