Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-04-09

1892.
Notice is hereby given:
That the following Information in
writing was filed in the said Clerks
Office on the I'd day of April, 1892, to
wit:
tAccomack County. to wit:
Inthe CountyCourt of hesaid County
Belt remembered that James H..
Fletcher, Jr., Attorney for the Com
I.monwealth in the County Court of
said County, and who in this behalf
prosecutes for the said Common
wealth in his proper person.. comes
into the. said Court on this day of
April, A. D., 1892, and here gives the
said Court to understand and be in
formed that on the 1st day of April,
a. D., 1892, a certain boat commonly
called ga fatty" name unknown,
said to belong to one, Severn Evans,
resident of Smiths Island, in the
State of Maryland, was seized by
John w. T. Dies, John A. Crockett,
George A. Crockett, Nicholas Say
and Nathaniel Payne, owners and
masters of canoes and boats, regis
tered and licensed under Chapter
Ninety Seven Of The Code OF Vir-
g1nia, as forfeited to the Common
wealth of Virginia in that the said
fatty was fonnd on the said LIST day
of April, A. D., 1892, employed by
Thomas Tyler, George Evans and
Edward Tyler in taking oysters in
Tangier Sound, in the waters of the
Commonwealth of Virginia, and
within the jurisdiction of said Coun-
ty, to wit, on Woman's Marsh Rock,
they, the said Thomas Tyler, George
Evans and Edward Tyler, being then
and there non-residents of the State
of Virginia. That at the time OF
said capture there was found upon
said vessel n cargo Of about thirty
bushels OF oysters.
And the said Attorney for the Com
monwealth therefore prays that the
said fatty, together with her tackle,
apparel, anchors, cables, sails, rig
cling, dredges, scrapes and appurte-
nances, together with her cargo, be
condemned as forfeited to the Com
monwealth of Virginia and be sold.
and the proceeds of sale disposed of
according to law: and that all per-
sons concerned in interest be cited to
appear and show cause why the said
property should not be condemned
and sold to enforce the said forfeit
ure-
And your petitioner will over pray,
sc.
JAMES II. FLETCHER, JR.,
! Attorney for the Commonwealth: !"
And that, upon the filing of the said
information as aforesaid, the Clerk of
the said Court forthwith issued a War
rant directed to the Sheriff Of the
said County, commanding him to
take the property mentioned in said
Information into his possession and
hold the same subject to further pro-
ceedings in the cause; which War
rant has this day been returned with
q report to the Clerk in writing there
on, as follows:
.'By virtue of the within order l
have taken into ray possession the
property named within with the ex-
ception of the cargo. which, being
perishable, was previously sold by
authority of the owners thereof and
with the consent of the Attorney for
/ the Commonwealth-and hold the
, same subject to the order of the
JOHN H. WISE,
Sheriff."
Therefore all persons concerned in
interest are hereby cited to appear
on the first day Of the April term
next, of the said County Court of
Accomack County, at the Court
House of the said County, and show
cause why the prayer of the said In
formation for condemnation and sale
of said property to enforce the said
forfeiture, and the proceeds of sale
disposed of according to law, should
not be granted.
Witness, Montcalm Oldham, Jr.,
Clerk of the said County Court, at
the Court House, the 9th day OF
| April, A. D., 1892. and in the 10th
wear of the Commonwealth.
Nj. Oldham, Jr., C. A. C.