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mate and part of tlie crew in returning to the city of Victoria from 

 Oiinalaska and Sitka, and also a Statement of the number of seal-skins 

 on board the "Carolena" at the time of said seizure, and the value 

 thereof 



S. The Exhibit (B) hereto annexed is a Statement of the catch of 

 thirteen sealinu-vessels in and about the Behring- Sea during so much 

 of the sea-son of A. d. 188G as they were in Behring Sea. The State- 

 ment is taken from tlie Keport of the Inspector of Fislieries for the 

 Province of British Columbia for the year ISSG, as contained in the 

 Ke])ort of the Department of Fisheries for Canada at pp. 248 and 240, 

 and I verily say, from personal knowledge of the facts, that the said 

 Statement is substantial, true, and correct. The schoonei^s "Carolena," 

 meaning the "Carolena" herein mentioned, and "Thornton" and 

 "Onward," were seized on the 1st and 2nd August in 188(!, and their 

 voyages thus broken up; the schooners "Mary Taylor," "Mountain 

 Chief," "Eustler," and "Kate" not having been in Behring Sea during 

 the season of 188(), the catch of these abf)ve-named schooners are not 

 included in estinuiting the average catch in Behring Sea for that year. 

 On account of tlie seizures made on the 1st and 2nd August as afore- 

 said, and of the schooner "Favourite" being ordered out of the sea by 

 the Commander of the said "Corwin," the thirteen vessels mentioned 

 in Exhibit (B), with one or two exceptions, lett Behring Sea, or the 

 best sealing-grounds therein, long before the close of the sealing 

 season, and thus the average catch as found in Exhibit (B) is fully, as 

 I verily believe, .'>00 skins less than it would have been had they all 

 remained till the end of the season. 



9. That hereto annexed, marked (C), is a Statement of the legal 

 exi^enses incurred at Sitka and elsewhere by reason of the seizui-e of the 

 "Carolena," and the arrest of her captain and mate as aforesaid, and 

 also of the personal expenses connected therewith. 



10. That hereto annexed, marked (I>),is a Statement of the damages 

 claimed by the owner of the " Carolena" by reason of her said seizure 

 and detention during the years 188G, 1887, and 1888, based upon the 



average catch of seal-skins per vessel astound by Exhibit (B). 

 3 11. The price per skin charged in Exhibits (A) and (D), namely, 



7 dollars, was the market price at Victoria aforesaid at the close 

 of the season of 1880, and was tlie price which, in the ordinary course 

 of events, would have been realized for said seal-skins had not such 

 seizure taken place, 



12. That hereto annexed, marked (E), is an estimate of the principal 

 sums on which interest is claimed, from the 1st day of October, A. d. 

 1880, on or about which date the catch of the "Carolena" would have 

 been realized on had she not been seized, and also for the actual out- 

 lay by her owner prior to that date, arising by reason of the seizure 

 and detention of the "Carolena," the arrest of the captain and mate, 

 and the exi)enses of the mate and crew in returning to Victoria from 

 Ouualaska and Sitka. 



13. That during the month of October, A. d. 1886, and ever since that 

 time, the minimum rate of interest on money for commercial i)urposes 

 at the city of Victoria aforesaid was and now is 7 per cent, per annum. 



14. That hereto annexed, marked (F), is a Statement of the items of 

 the outfit of the "Carolena" when on said voyage and the value thereof, 

 which would have been wholly consumed in the ordinary prosecution 

 of a full season's hunting and fishing voyage. 



15. The paices charged for the articles and groups of articles in 

 Exhibit (A), comprising the outfit of the "Carolena," are the market 



