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not such seizure taken i)lace, would have been placed on the said 

 niiirket. 



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

 and personal expenses incurred at Sitka and elsewhere by reason of 

 the seizure of the " W. P. Sayward," the arrest and detention of her 

 master and mate, and the claims arising therefrom. 



V2. That hereto annexed, marked "(D)," is an estimate of the loss 

 and damage resulting to the owner thereof by reason of the seizure and 

 detention of the schooner "W. P. Say ward" during the season of 1SS7, 

 and the probable loss from the same cause for the season of 1888. The 

 estimated catch of seals by the "■ W. P. Say ward" for the season of 1887 

 is based upon an average catch of 350 seals per boat and canoe for a 

 full season, and I verily believe, liad the above seizure not taken place, 

 that, under ordinary circumstances, the total catch of the " W, P. Say- 

 ward" for said full season would have been at least the said number of 

 3,500 seals. 



13. That after the close of the sealing season, and during the montlis 

 of October, November, and December, A. d. 1887 and January 1888, 

 had the " W. P. Say ward" been in her owner's possession she would 

 have been engaged in the coasting and general freighting trade in and 

 about the coasts of British Columbia, and the said claim of 300 dollars 

 per month for each of said months is a fair and reasonable estinuite of 

 the earnings of the " W. P. Say ward " for and during said months, after 

 deducting therefrom the cost of wages and running expenses. 



14. In order to put the " W. P. Say ward"' in order and condition to 

 engage in hunting and fishing the full season of 1888, it is necessary 

 that she should be in her owner's possession at Victoria aforesaid on or 

 before the 1st day of February, A. d. 1888. If not then at Victoria it 

 will be impossible to repair and refit her in time to start out on a full 

 season voyage which begins about the 1st March. As during the sum- 

 mer months there would belittle for a vessel like the '' W. i*. Sayward" 

 to do in the coasting and local freighting trade, if she were not got 

 away on a fishing and hunting voyage the season would be practically 

 lost. The estimated profit on a full season of hunting and fishing by the 

 " W. P. Sayward" in 1888, namely, 0,000 dollars, is a fair and reasona- 

 ble catch estimate, based on a catch of 3,500 seal-skins, and, deducting 

 from the gross value thereof, at 5 dol. 50 c. per skin, the cost of outfit 

 and wages based on the " W. P. Sayward's" voyage of 1887. 



15. That hereto annexed, marked "(E)," is a statement of the princi- 

 pal sums on which interest at 7 per cent, per annum is claimed, and the 

 time for which it is so claimed. On the 1st October, A. i). 1887, on or 

 about which date the catch of the "W. P. Sayward" for 1887 would 

 have been, in the ordinary course of events, realized on, the minimum 

 rate of interest on money for comnu^rcial purposes at the said city of 

 Victoria was, has since continued to be, and now^ is, 7 i)er cent, per 

 annum. 



10. That hereto annexed, marked " (F)," is a statement of the articles, 

 and groups of articles, and the value thereof, comprised in the outfit of 

 the " W. P. Sayward" on said voyage as given in Exhibit (A), which 

 would have been wholly or almost wholly consumed in the course and 

 prosecution of a full season's hunting and fishing voyage, such as con- 

 templated by the " W. P. Sayward" in 1887. 



And I, James Douglas Warren aforesaid, make this solemn declara- 

 tion, conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the 

 "Act respecting Extra- Judicial Oaths." 



(Signed) J. D. Warren. 



