Assertion: said schooner | /r/HasProperty | specified in their respective libels
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text: And whereas the duly-accredited minister of Spain, resident in the United States, hath, in behalf of the government of Spain, for the owners of said schooner, and the residue of said goods, claimed that the same be restored to that government, for the said owners, they being Spanish subjects, under the provisions of the treaty subsisting between the United States and Spain; and whereas, it hath been made to appear to this court, that the said schooner is lawfully owned by the subjects of Spain, as also the residue of said goods, not specifically claimed; and whereas the aforesaid Don Pedro Montez and Jose Ruiz have in person ceased to prosecute their claim as specified in their respective libels, and their said claims fall within the demand 40 U.S. 529 and claim of the Spanish minister, made as aforesaid, and whereas, the seizure of the said schooner and goods by the said Thomas R. Gedney and others was made on the high seas in a perilous condition, and they were first brought into the port of New London, within the district of Connecticut, and libelled for salvage.