194 



CASE OF GREAT BEITAIN. 



And I make this solemn afifidavit, conscientiously believing the same 

 to be true, and by virtue of "The Oatlis Ordinance, 1809." 



(Signed) Daniel McLean, 



Master J Schooner '-'■Trmmpli.'''' 



Sworn before me thisStli August, 1880, at Victoria, British Columbia. 

 (Signed) Geo. Morrison, J. P., 



A Justice of the Peace for the Province of British Columbia, 



I do hereby certify to the correctness of this statement as verbally 

 expret;sed to me also by said Daniel McLean. 



(Signed) Edgar Crow Baker, 



Notary Public. 



No. 15. 

 "Black Diamond." — Seized hy United States uteam-sliip "Richard Bush" July 11, 1SS9. 



For— 



Amount of 



claim as 



put forward 



hy owner. 



Evidence in sui)port of claim. 



76 sliins seized, at 8 dollar.s 



2,024skin3, balance of estimated catch, at 8 dollars 



llifle.s, spears, &c., seized 



!Ne w ship's papers 



Legal and other expenses 



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

 date of ijayment. 



.$608. 00 



16, 192. 00 

 110. 00 

 25.00 

 250. 00 



Affidavits of Morris Moss and Alex- 

 ander Gault. 

 Do. 

 no. 

 Do. 

 Do. 



17,185.00 



DECLARATION OF MORRIS MOSS. 



Canada, Province of British Columbia., city of Victoria. 



I, Morris Moss, of the city of Victoria,in the Province of British Colum- 

 bia, Dominion of Canada, fur dealer and ship-owner, do solemnly and 

 sincerely declare as follows: 



1. I am a British subject by birth, and the duly registered owner of 

 the schooner "Black Diamond," of the port of Victoria, aforesaid. 



2. On the 12th day of February, 1889, the said schooner was cleared 

 at the custom-house at said city of Victoria for a hshing and hunting 

 voyage to the North Pacific Ocean and Uehring Sea. 



3. On the 3rd day of August, 1880, the said "Black Diamond" returned 

 to Victoria aforesaid, and hereto annexed, marked (X), is the statutory 

 declaration of Alexander (lault, the mate of the said schooner on said 

 voyage, of the cause and manner of the "Black Diamond's" return to 

 Victoria from such voyage, which said statement I verily believe is 



true. 

 49 4. The value of the seal-skins taken from the "Black Diamond" 



as set out in said Alexander (fault's statement, was, on or about 

 the 1st day of October (when in her course the vessel would have deliv- 

 ered her cargo of skins at Victoria aforesaid), 8 dollars per skin. The 

 salt so taken as aforesaid was worth 5 dollars; the Indian spears 4 

 dollars each, and the said rifle was worth 25 dollars. 



5. Prom the actual catcli of seals made in said sea during said season 

 by other sailing-vessels, I verily believe that had the said "])lack 

 Diamond" not been seized and her hunting voyage broken up as set 



