CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



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Declared and aflfiniied before ine, at the city of Ottawa, in the County 

 of Carleton and Province of Ontario, this 9th day of December, A. u. 

 1887, and certified under uiy official seal. 



(Signed) J. M. Balderson, 



Notary Public for Ontario, 



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No. 5. 



JV, p. Sayward." — Seized hy United States steamship " Richard Rush," July 9, tSS7. 



For- 



Amount of 



claim as 

 put forward 

 by owner. 



Bvidence in support of claim. 



Passages of crew, &c 



Passages of officers 



I'ersonal expenses of owners 



Legal expenses 



Probable seal catch, 1887, 3,500 seals, at 5J dollars. . 



Loss by detention, 1st October, 1887, to 1st Feb- 

 ruary, 1888. 



Loss 6i profit in season of 1888 (1st February to 

 Ist October). 



Claim by owner, with interest at 7 per cent, to 

 date of payment 



$255. 00 



250. 00 



250. 00 



850. 00 



19, 250. 00 



1,200.00 



6, 000. 00 



28, 055. 00 



Affidavit of J. D. Warren, &c. 

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DECLARATION OF JAMES DOUGLAS WARREN. 



City of Ottawa, Province of Ontario, Dominion of Canada. 



I, James Douglas Warren, of the city of Victoria, in tlie Province of 

 British Columbia, of the Dominion of Canada, master mariner and ship- 

 owner, do solemnly ;ind sincerely declare as follows: 



1. That I am the.daly authorized agent, by i)ower of attorney bearing 

 date the 4th November, A. d. 1886, of Thomas H. Cooper, of the city of 

 San Francisco, in the State of California, one of the United States of 

 America, the managing owner of the hereinafter-mentioned schooner 

 "W. P. Sayward." 



2. That the said Thomas H. Cooper is, as I am informed and do verily 

 believe, a British subject by birth, and has never renounced his alle- 

 giance to the Sovereign of Great Britain. 



3. That the said schooner ^'W. P. Sayward" is a British vessel, having 

 been built at Victoria aforesaid in A. D. 1882, and duly registered at the 

 port of Victoria aforesaid, and was at the time of her seizure, as here- 

 inafter set out, so registered. The said "VV. P. Sayward" is 135^ tons 

 burden, by builder's measurement, and is a well and strongly built 

 vessel. 



4. That on the 16th day of May, A. D. 1887, after having duly cleared 

 at Customs at the port of Victoria aforesaid for such purpose, the 

 "W. P. Sayward" sailed from Victoria on and for a full hunting and 

 fishing voyage in the North Pacific Ocean and Behring Sea. On said 

 voyage George E. Percy, of the said city of Victoria, was master; 

 Andrew Laing, of the same place, mate; and the crew numbered, in 

 addition to the master and mate, twenty-two or twenty-three, with nine 

 canoes and one boat for hunting and sealing purposes. 



5. On the 2ud day of July then next following, the said "W. P. Say- 

 ward" entered Behring Sea, having then on board, as by the report of 

 the master sent to me, 497 sealskins, all taken on the voyage from 



