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No. 4.

I hereby declare that I have this day examined personally the report at the custom-house of the arrival in this port on the 19th September, 1863, of the coasting steamer Kadie (in the year 1863.) It states as follows:

From Cape Town to this port and back to Cape Town, having on board to be shipped to the Alabama: 180 tons coal, 7 barrels pork, 12 cwt. 2 qrs. 0 lbs., 5 barrels rum, 287 gallons, 3 bales merchandise.

Signed by collector of customs.

Signed and certified as a true report by the master of Kadie.

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G. W. BROWNING.

JAMES FOWLER. *J. W. WHITE.

Simons Town, Cape of Good Hope, sworn before me this 2d November, 1871.

No. 5.

P. W. MARTIN,
Justice of the Peace.

From Messrs. Akerberg & Behrens book, shipping and landing agents, Cape Town:

March, 1864.-To shipping to steamer Alabama, 2083 tons coal, 80 tons stores, for account of Messrs. William Anderson, Saxon & Co.

Raphael Daniel Norden, of Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, maketh oath and saith, that the aforegoing is a true and faithful extract made by this deponent from the books kept by the late firm of Akerberg & Behrens, shipping and landing agents, Cape Town.

R. D. NORDEN.

Sworn at Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, on this 3d day of November, 1871, before me.

R. LESURE, Justice of the Peace for Cape Town.

No. 6.

From Mr. R. S. Atwell's book, bread and biscuit baker, Cape Town: [738] *March 24, 1864.-To 13,000 pounds biscuit supplied to steamer Alabama, for account of Messrs. William Anderson, Saxon & Co.

Raphael Daniel Norden, of Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, maketh oath and saith, that the aforegoing is a true and faithful extract made by this deponent from the books of Mr. R. L.Attwell, bread and biscuit baker, Cape Town.

R. D. NORDEN.

Sworn at Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, this 3d day of November, 1871, before me.

R. LESURE, Justice of the Peace for Cape Town.

UNITED STATES CONSULATE, CAPE TOWN,

October, 1871.

SIR: I have the honor to bring to your notice that the Department of State, Washington, has called upon me to collect information relative to the proceedings of the confederate vessels which touched at the Cape during the years 1863 and 1864, more especially those of the Alabama. I find I cannot obtain particulars of the stores and coals supplied to the latter vessel except from the custom-house records. I therefore request that you will be so good as to direct a return to be made of all supplies which have been shipped on board the Alabama or other confederate vessels, specifying the quantity entered to [739] *each, and by whom supplied. I shall feel much obliged by your early compliance with this request. I have the honor to be, sir, &c.,

His Excellency Sir HENRY BARKLY,

W. W. EDGECOMB,

United States Consul.

Governor, &c., Cape of Good Hope.

COLONIAL OFFICE, October 17, 1871.

SIR: I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 9th instant, wherein you request that instructions may be issued for preparation from the custom-house records of a return, showing all supplies shipped on board the Shenandoah and other confederate vessels which touched at the Cape in the year 1863 and 1864, and specifying the quantities entered to each and by whom supplied. In reply, I am directed by his excellency the governor to acquaint you, that upon reference to the honorable the collector of customs, it appears that, as the vessels in question were viewed as "men-of-war" and treated as such, no account was taken by that officer's department of the coals, &c., supplied thereto. His excellency therefore regrets his inability to furnish the information which you desire.

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I have the honor to be, sir, &c.,

W. W. EDGECOMB, Esq.,

CHARLES MILLS,

(Signed for the) Colonial Secretary.

Consul for the United States of America, Cape Town.

A true copy from the original exhibited to me this day by W. W. Edgecomb, United States consul, Cape Town.

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CAPE TOWN, November 2, 1871.

G. J. DE KOSTE,

Notary Public.

UNITED STATES CONSULATE, CAPE TOWN,
October 21, 1871.

SIR: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 17th instant, in answer to mine of the 9th. I regret that you can give me no information concerning the transactions of the Alabama, and other confederate vessels at this and other ports of the colony, during the years 1863 and 1864. By referring to the Cape Argus of September 22, 1863, I find that the Alabama was in Simons Bay, and that Captain Semmes reports that he is expecting the steamer Kadie from Table Bay with 200 tons of coals. I also learn that the Kadie did clear from

[741] this port on the 17th of September, *1863, with 180 tons of coals and other stores for Simons Bay, and that the coals and stores were put on board the Alabama at the latter port. On application being made at the custom-house (by a person employed by me) to examine the manifest of steamer Kadie, it was refused unless he could show an order from you. Will you please to order a copy of manifest from this port and Simons Town, for my use.

I have the honor, sir, &c.,

W. W. EDGECOMB,
United States Consul.

His Excellency Sir HENRY BARKLY,
Governor, &c., of the Cape of Good Hope.

Protest.

UNITED STATES CONSULATE, CAPE TOWN,

August 4, 1863.

SIR: From reliable information received by me, and which you also are doubtless in receipt of, a war-steamer called the Alabama is now in Saldanha Bay, being painted, and discharging prisoners of war. The vessel in question was built in England to prey upon the commerce of the United States of America, and escaped therefrom while on a trialtrip, forfeiting bonds of £20,000, which the British government exacted under the foreign-enlistment act. Now, as your government has a treaty

of amity and commerce with the United States, and has not re[742] cognized the persons in re*volt against the United States as a

government at all, the vessel alluded to should be at once seized and sent to England, from whence she clandestinely escaped. Assuming that the British government was sincere in exacting the bonds, you have doubtless been instructed to send her home to England, where she belongs. But if, from some oversight, you have not received such instructions, and if you decline the responsibility of making a seizure, I would most respectfully protest against the vessel remaining in any port of this colony another day. She has been four days in one bay of the colony already, and a week previously on the coast, within three leagues of the land, and has forfeited the right to remain an hour longer by this breach of neutrality. Painting a ship does not come under the head of neces sary repairs, and is no proof that she is unseaworthy, and to allow her to visit the other ports after she has set the Queen's proclamation on the subject of belligerent rights at defiance, would not be regarded as in accordance with the spirit and purpose of the document.

Yours, with most distinguished consideration and obedience,
WALTER GRAHAM,

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UNDER ARTICLE I OF THE TREATY CONCLUDED AT WASHINGTON ON THE 8TH MAY, 1871, BETWEEN HER BRITANNIC MAJESTY

AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

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