CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 139 



No. 2. 

 " Thornton." — Seized hy United States sieam-sltip " Coririn," August 1, 1886. 



Amount of ' 

 For— ■ pi^t'forward Evidence in support of claim, 



by owner 



Value of vessel, 78 tons $0,000.00 Two affidavits of J. 1). Warren, &c. 



Value of outfit (nnconsuniable) • 2,941.64 Do. 



Insurance i 591. 43 Do. 



Wages paid to date of seizure to crew, &c I 1,370.00 Do. 



Passage-money of crew from San Francisco to i 177. 16 Do. 



Victoria. 



Passage-money of crew and expenses of captain 200. 00 Do. 



and mate after release, Sitka to Victoria. 



Personal expenses of owners 1, 000. 00 



Legal expenses 1, 250. 00 



Estimated catch of seals for 188G IG, 667. 00 



30, 197. 23 

 Deduct value consumed on a full vovage 3, 379. 58 



Claim by owner, with interest at 7 per cent, to 26, 817. 65 

 date of payment. 



Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 



DECLARATION OF .lAME^l DOUGLAj^ WARREN. 



City of Ottawa, Province of Ontario, Dominion of C<tn<t(l((. 



I, James J)oiii;liis Warren, of the city ot N'ictoiia, in the rrovince of 

 British Cohiiiibia,of the Dominion of Canada, mariner and ship-ownei", 

 do solemnly and sincerely declare as follows: 



1. That I am a British subject by birth. 



2. That I was sole owner of the J>ritish steam-schooner " Tiiornton," 

 78 tons burden by builder's measurement, registered at the port of Vi(;- 

 toria aforesaid, before and at the time of her seizure hereinafter set out 

 by the United States steam-ship '' Corwin."' 



3. That the said steam-schooner "Thorn ton" was rebuilt by me in 

 A. D. 18^7,* at a cost of 3,o(K) dollars, and in A. D. 1880 and A. D. 1881 was 

 fitted up with steam-proi)ening' ])ower at an additional cost of 3,()(K) 

 dollars, ller bottom and sides of above light water line were (•o])i)eied 

 and copper fastened. 



4. That on or about the 10th (hiy of May, 1880, the said steam- 

 schooner "Thorntou" was regularly cleared at the port of Victoria 

 aforesaid for a full season of about four months' fishing and hunting in 

 the North Pacific Ocean and Behring Sea, and that on or about the 27th 

 day of said month of May the " Thornton" finally sailed from Clayoquot 

 Sound, on the south-west of Vancouver Island, on said fishing aud 

 hunting voyage, 



5. The master of the " Thornton" on and for said voyage was one 

 JIans Guttormsen, of the said city of Victoria, and the mate one Harry 

 Norman, of the same place, and a crew of thirteen men. 



G. That ou the 1st day of August, A. D. 1880, while in Beliring Sea 

 in north latitude 55° 45' and west longitude 108° 44', lawfully, as I 

 verily believe, pursuing the objects of said voyage, the said steam- 

 schooner "Thornton" was seized by the United States steam-ship 

 "Corwin," and by the " Corwin" taken to Ounalaska, in the United 

 States Territory of Alaska, aud her voyage was broken up. 



7. That on arrival at Ounalaska the said "Thornton" was, by order 

 of the United States authorities, stripped of her outfit and running 



*Qy. 1877. 



