THE REBEL-AMERICAN FLEET.
Seizure of Seven Ex-Blockade Runners for the United States.
An affidavit made by a Mr. Mullins, clerk to Howard, Dolmain, and Co., solicitors in London to the United States Government, having been presented to the Court of Admiralty, setting forth that seven steamers, ex-blockade-runners, lying at Liverpool and standing in the name of Fraser, Trenholm, and Co., were lawfully the property of the United States, having belonged to the Confederate Government at the termination of the war, the Admiralty issued a warrant for £20,000 against each steamer, and took possession of them. It is alleged that three of the vessels are subject to a pending chancery suit by the United States agaiust Privolean; that three others are bona fide property of Fraser, Trenholm, and Co. ; and that one other belongs to the builders, having never been registered.
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Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXII, Issue 2870, 6 October 1866, Page 5
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140THE REBEL-AMERICAN FLEET. Seizure of Seven Ex-Blockade Runners for the United States. Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXII, Issue 2870, 6 October 1866, Page 5
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