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the Canadian steam cruiser Aberdeen on the twenty-fifth day 

 of May, 1896, off the Nova Scotia between Liscombe Light and 

 White Island; that your deponent knows the value of the said 

 seine and appurtenances, and in his opinion the fair value of said 

 seine and appurtenances, not including the purse line, at the time 

 of said seizure, was one thousand dollars ($1,000), and that 

 the value of the purse line attached to said seine was fifty-five 

 dollars ($55). 



Clarence A. Elw^ell. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me at Gloucester, Massa- 

 chusetts, on this eighth day of November in the year one thousand 

 nine hundred and twelve. 



Frederic A. Shackelford, 



(Seal.) Notary Public. 



EXHIBIT 30. 

 Affidavit of John W. McFarland. 

 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 



Commonwealth of Massachusetts, ss.: 



I, John W. McFarland of Gloucester in the County of Essex 

 in said Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on oath depose and say 

 that I am, and for more than thirty-eight years have been, the 

 master and part owner of a fishing vessel sailing from the port 

 of Gloucester aforesaid; 



That I was well acquainted with the schooner Frederick Ger- 

 ring, Jr., of said port owned by Edward Morris, and with the con- 

 dition and equipment of said vessel, and that in my opinion, the 

 fair value of said vessel with her sails, rigging, cable, anchors and 



interior furnishings, was, in May, 1896, 



thirty-five hundred dollars ; 



That I was engaged in the mackerel fisheries in the spring 

 and summer of 1896 and knew the market price of mackerel in 



