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juarliefr value ]>er sldii at Victoria aforesaid at the close of the season 

 1887, after deducting- therefrom the cost of outfit and wa.ues of crew 

 and hunters for each year, based on the "On ward's" said voyage of 

 A. D. 1S80. The said claim of 5,000 dollars for each of said years A. d. 

 1887 and A. D. 1888 is a fair aud reasonable estimate of the earnings of 

 the '• Onward" in hunting and fishing for the said years. 



14. That Exhibit (E), hereto annexed, is a statement of the princi])al 

 sums on Avhich interest at 7 per cent, per annum is claimed, and tlic 

 time for which said interest is so claimed. At the time when the catch 

 of the " Onward" lor 1886 would have, in the ordinary' course of events, 

 been realized on, namely, on or about tlie 1st October in said year, the 

 minimum rate of interest on money for commercial pur^joses was, has 

 since continued to be, and now is, 7 percent, per annum. 



If). That hereto annexed, marked "(E)," is a statement of the articles, 

 and tlie value thereof, as given in Exhibit (A)of the "Onwavd's" outfit 

 on said voyage of 1880, inchulinginsurance premiums and wages, which 

 would necessarily be wholly, or almost wholly, consumed in the course 

 of a full season's hunting and fishing, such as contemplated by the 

 "Onward" in 1886. 



16. That on the 13th day of July last past I was at Ounalaska afore- 

 said, and was then on board of the said schooner "Onward." She was 

 then lying side-to on a gravel beach, in the harbour of Ounalaska, ]iar- 

 tially embedded in the gravel, and generally in a very bad condition. 

 Her standing rigging was nuich weather-beaten, also her deck and side- 

 seams were in a very bad state, the long exposure and severe frosts of 

 the previous winter having broken out the pitch, and, judging from 

 their appearance, they were very leaky. Erom what I tlien saw of the 

 condition of the "Onward," I verily believe that she could not be 

 fioated and put in a fit state for sea without extensive repairs, which at 

 Ounalaska, where there is neither the recpiisite worknu'ii nor material, 

 would involve very large expenditure, and that to float the said 

 "Onward," take her to Victoria afi)resaid, the nearest port where the 

 recjuisite facilities exist, and where she could be repaired and refitted 

 at least cost, and there repair and refit her, would cost at least 4,500 

 (lobars. 



And I, Douglas Warren. aforesaid, make this solemn declaration, con- 

 scientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of "The Act 

 respecting Extra-Judicial Oaths." 



(Signed) J. D. Wareen. 



Declared and afflrmed before me at the city of Ottawa, in the County 

 of Carleton, in the Province of Ontario, this 9th day of December, A. d. 

 1887, and certified under my official seal. 



(Signed) D. O'Connor, 



jNotary Fublic/or Ontario. 



