192 CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



the owners and hunters of said schooner '' Triumph, " amounting? to the 

 value of the difference between the skins actually taken and estimated 

 catch, viz., 2,428 skins (2,500, less 72) at 8 dollars per skin, or the sum 

 of 19,424 dollars, and 250 dollars for le,L>al and other expenses in con- 

 nection with the i^reparation and submission of this claim. 



18. That hereto annexed, marked (A), is a statement in detail of such 

 claim, and of the persons entitled to share therein. 



19. That upon the sailing of the said schooner in April and May last 

 at San Francisco and Victoria, respectively, advances were made to 

 the hunters based u])on a full season's catch, and said hunters will, 

 upon payment of said claim, be entitled to, and will receive their share 

 thereof 



And I, Edgar Crow Baker, make this solemn declaration, conscien- 

 tiously believing the same to be true, just, and equitable, and by virtue 

 of "The Act respecting Extra Judicial Oaths." 



(Signed) Edgar Crow Baker, 



Managing Owner. 



47 Declared by the said Edgar Crow Baker, at the city of Victoria, 



British Columbia, the day of aSTovember, A. d. 1889. 

 Before me, 



(Signed) D. E. Harris, 



A Notary Puhlic hy Royal Authority in and for the Frovince of 

 British Columbia^ residing and practielng at Victoria aforesaid. 



Detailed statement of claim hy owners of Briish schooner " Triumph" against the Govern- 

 ment of the United Slates of America. 



2,428 seal-skins, balanco of an estimated catch of 2,500 seal- skins by the 

 schooner "Triumph" for the full season of 1889 in Bohring Sea, at 8 dol- 

 lars per sk in $19, 424 



Legal and other expenses incidental to preparation and submission of 



claims 250 



Total 19,674 



Owners on October 1, ISSD. 



Shares. 



Edgar Crow Baker, managing owner 21 



Daniel McLean, master mariner 22 



Rosine Gibson, Bauie, Ontario 11 



John C. Blackett, Victoria, British Columbia 10 



Total 64 



N. B. — E. Crow Baker, representing D. McLean's shares by full power 

 of attorney, and as mortgagee in possession, J. C. Blackett, by power of 

 attorney, and Bosiua Gibson's by consent of attorney. 



(Signed) Edgar Crow Baker, 



Managing Owner. 



The schedule marked (A) referred to in statement, of which this forms 

 r)art, 



(Signed) D. R. Harris, 



Notary Fublic for the Frovince of British Columhic^ 



