CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



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Declared before me at the city of Victoria, tbisStli day of August, 18S9. 

 (Signed) Ernest V. Bodwell, 



A Notary Public for the Province of British Colmnhia. 



This is the statutory dcclaratiou of Alexander Gault referred to as 

 marked (X) in the declaration of Morris Moss made before me the 19th 

 day of November, 1889, 



(Signed) A. L. Belyea, Notary Public. 



No. 16. 



'Lily." — Seized hy United Stales steam-ship " Eichard liush," August 6, 1889. 



For— 



333 skins seized, at8 dollars. 



Balance of catcli, 1,767, at 8 dollars. 



Spears and salt seized 



New 8hi])'8 papers 



Legal and other expenses 



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

 date of payment. 



Amount of 



claim as 

 put forward 

 by owner. 



$2, CC-1. 00 



14,136.00 



101.00 



2.5. 00 



250. 00 



17, 176. 00 



Evidence in support of claim. 



Affidavits of Morria Moss and John 

 Keillv. 

 Do. 

 Uo. 

 Do. 

 Do. 



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DECLARATION OF MORRIS MOSS. 



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



I, Morris Moss, of the city of Vietoiia, in the Province of British 

 Columbia, 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 " Lily" of the port of Victoria aforesaid. 



2. On the 20th day of May, A. d. 1839, the said schooner " Lily " 

 cleared at the custom-house, Victoria aforesaid, for a fishing and hunt- 

 ing voyage in the North Pacific Ocean and Behring Sea. 



3. On the 1st day of Sej)tember, A. D. 1889, the said schooner "Lily" 

 returned to the said port of Victoria, and hereto annexed, marked (X), 

 is the statutory declaration of John Eeilly, the master of the said 

 schooner "Lily" on said voyage, setting forth the cause and manner of 

 the return to Victoria of said schooner from such voyage, which said 

 statement I verily believe to be true. 



4. The value of the seal-skins taken from the said "Lily," as set out 

 in said John Reilly's statement, was, on or about the 1st day of October 

 (when in due course the said vessel would have delivered her cargo of 

 skins at Victoria aforesaid), 8 dollars per skin. The salt so taken as 

 aforesaid was worth 5 dollars, and the Indian spears 4 dollars each. 



5. From the actual catch of seals made in said sea during said season 

 by other vessels, I verily believe that had the said "Lily" not been 

 seized, and her hunting voyage broken up, as set out in said statement 

 of John Beilly, the said hunters on said schooner "Lily" would have 

 captured at least 2,100 seal-skins in Behring Sea during the season of 

 1889. 



0. I for myself and the crew and hunters of the said "Lily" claim 

 damages against the Goveriiiiient of the United States of America for 

 the seizure of the said "' Lily," and for the taking and detention of said 

 333 seal-skins, and for 1,707 seal-skins, the balance of the estimated 

 catch of 2,100 in Behring Sea for the fall season of 1889; also for the 

 salt and Indian spears and ship's papers taken as aforesaid, and for 



