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value of tlie seal-skins on board the "Onward" at the time of her 

 seizure, and which were taken from the "Onward" at Ouualaska by 

 the United States authorities. 



9. That the ])rices charged for the various articles and groups of 

 articles comprising- the outfit of the "Onward" on and for said voyage 

 are the regular market prices of the said articles at Victoria aforesaid 

 at the time of their purchase for use on said voyage. The price 

 charged in said statement for the seal-skins on board the "Onward" 

 when seized, uamely, 7 dollars per skin, was the market price iier skin 

 at Victoria aforesaid at the close of the sealing season of 1880, when 

 the catch of the "Onward," had not such seizure taken place, would 

 have been placed on the market. 



. 10. That the value of the schooner "Onward," as given in Exhibit 

 (A), namely, 4,000 dollars, is a fair and reasonable value for the said 

 schooner at the time of her seizure; she was then, and had always 

 been, kept in first-class order and condition, and was always a staunch, 

 seaworthy vessel, and for the said voyage had been refitted with new 

 sails and sailing gear. 



11. That hereto annexed, marked " (B) " is a statement of the catch of 

 thirteen sealing vessels, in and about Behring Sea, during the season of 

 1880; the said statement is comjdled from the Beport of the Inspector 

 of Fisheries for the Province of British Columbia for the year 1880, as 

 contained in the Report of the Department of Fisheries for Canada for 

 that year at pp. 248 and 249, and from personal knowledge of the facts 

 therein set out, I verily believe the said statement to be substantially 

 true and correct. The steam-schooner "Thornton," the schooners 

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

 were seized on the 1st and 2nd August, 1880, in Behring Sea, at the 

 beginning of the best sealing period ; and the schooners " Mary Taylor," 

 "Mountain Chief," "Rustler," and "Kate" were not in Behring Sea 

 during the season of 1880, so in estimating the average catch per vessel 

 in Behring Sea for 1880, the catch of the above-named seven vessels is 

 not included in Exhibit (B) ; all of the thirteen vessels named in Exhibit 



(B), with only one or two exceptions, left Behring Sea long before 

 12 the end of the sealing season of 1880, because of the seizures 



which had been made by the United States steam-ship "Corwin," 

 fearing to remain lest they also should be seized; by reason of such 

 departure from the said sea, or the best sealing ground therein, before 

 the close of the season, 1 verily believe that the catch i)er vessel, as 

 found in Exhibit (B), namely, 2,381 seal-skins, is fully 500 less than 

 it would have been had the said vessels remained the full season in 

 said sea. 



12. That hereto annexed, marked "(C)," is a statement of the legal 

 ex])enses incurred at Sitka and elsewhere by reason of the said seizure 

 of the "Onward," the arrest and imprisonment of the said master and 

 mate, and the claims arising therefrom, and also of the personal 

 exjtenses of the said owner and' said agent in the same connection. 



13. That the Exhibit (D), hereto annexed, is a statement of the esti- 

 mated loss and damage resulting to the owner of the " Onward " by 

 reason of her seizure and detention in A. d. 1880, A. D. 1887, and A. D. 

 1888. The estimated loss for the year 1880 is based upon the average 

 catch per vessel, as found in Exhibit (B), less the number of skins on 

 board the "Onward" when seized, the balance being valued at 7 dollars 

 ])er skin, the price per skin at Victoiia at the close of the season 1880. 

 The claim for A. D. 1887 and A. D. 1888 is based upon the same average 

 catch as for A. D. 1880, valued at 5 dol. 50 c. x)tjr skin, which was the 



