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15. That liercto annexed, marked (B), is a Statement showing the 

 number of seal-skins taken by each one of the thirteen sealing-schooners 

 in and about Behring's Sea during the season of 1S8(>. Tlie said State- 

 ment is based upon the Eeport of tlie Inspector of Fisheries for the 

 Province of British Cohimbia for the year 188(5, as contained in the 

 Report of the Minister of Marine and Fisheries for Canada for said year 

 at pp. 248 and 249. The schooners "Carolena," "Onward," and said 

 steam-schooner "Thornton" were seized on the 1st and 2nd August of 

 said year wlien the sealing season was not lialf over, and the schooneis 

 "Mnry Taylor," "Mountain Chief," "Rustler," and "Kate" were not in 

 Behring Sea during the season of 1886, so that in calculating the aver- 

 age catch for the Behring Sea Heet, the catch of the seven above-men- 

 tioned schooners was not included. With one or two exceptions the 

 thhteen sealing-schooners, mentioned in Exhibit (B), left Behring Sea, 

 or the best tishing grounds therein, long before the end of the said 

 season, as their masters feared seizure by the United States authori- 

 ties, and the said average catch, so found by Exhibit (B), is therefore 

 fully 500 less than it otherwise would have been. 



10. That hereto annexed, marked (C), is a Statement of the amount 

 of legal exi)enses paid and incurred by me at Sitka and elsewhere, and 

 also of the amount of my personal expenses incurred by reason of the 

 said seizure. 



17. That hereto annexed, marked (D), is a Statement showing the 

 estimated loss incurred by mc as owner of tlie said " Thornton," by 

 reason of the said seizure and detention, and of the seizure and deten- 

 tion of the seal-skins then on board the "Thornton," and the breaking 

 up of the said sealing voyage. Also, the estimated loss incurred by me 

 during the present year by reason of the non-release of the "Thorn- 

 ton;" and in view of the fact that it is now too late to put the "Thorn- 

 ton " in repair and condition to engage in next year's business, the 

 estimated loss for next year. And I verily believe that the said esti- 

 mates of the losses incurred by me by reason of the seizure and deten- 

 tion of the said "Thornton" for the years 1886, 1887, and 1888, are fair 

 and reasonable estimates, and rather under than over the actual losses 

 so sustained. 



18. That the estimated loss of r>,000 dollars for each o/ the years 

 1887 and 1888, by reason of the seizure and detention of the " Thorn- 

 ton," is based upon an average catch of 2,o80 seal-skins valued at 5 dol. 

 50 c. per skin, the market value at Victoria for the present season, 

 deducting from the gross value thereof the cost of outrtt and amount 

 of the wages of hunters and crew, based on the "Thornton's" voyage 

 of A. D. 1886. 



19. That during and since the year 1880 7 per cent, per annum was, 

 and now is, the minimum rate at which money for ordinary commercial 

 purposes could be obtained at the city of Victoria aforesaid, and that 

 hereto annexed, marked (E), is an estimate of the in-incipal sums on 

 which interest is claimed at the rate of 7 per cent, per annum, and the 

 time for which it is so claimed. 



And I, James Douglas Warren aforesaid, make tliis solemn 

 8 declaration, conscientiously believing the same to be true, and 

 by virtue of " The Act respecting Extra Judicial Oaths." 



(Signed) J. J). Warren. 



Declared and affirmed befon^ me at the city of Ottawa, in the county 

 of Carletou, this 25th day of November, A. d. 1887, and certified under 

 my ofiticial seal. 



[SEAL.] (Signed) D. B. MacTavish, Notary Public. 



