904 CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. 



[Sub-inclosure.] 



Affidavit of the captain and crew of the schooner Sarah H. Prior. 



On this 28th day of December, A. D. 1886, personally appeared be- 

 fore me Captain Thomas McLaughlin, master, and George F. Little 

 and Charles Finnegan, two of the crew of the schooner Sarah H. 

 Prior, of Boston, and being duly sworn, signed and made oath to thr 

 following statement of facts: 



On September 10, 1886, the schooner Sarah H. Prior, while run- 

 ning for Malpeque, Prince Edward Island, and about seven miles 

 from that port, lost her large seine. Four days afterwards the 

 schooner John Ingalls, of Halifax, N. S., Captain Wolfe, came into 

 Malpeque and had the seine on board, which she had picked up at 

 sea. Captain Wolfe offered to deliver the seine to Captain Mc- 

 Laughlin in consideration of twenty-five dollars, which offer the 

 latter accepted and paid him the money. The Canadian revenue 

 cutter Critic, Captain McLearn, was lying at Malpeque at the time, 

 and Captain McLaughlin went to see him, to ascertain if there would 

 be any trouble in delivering the seine. Captain McLearn would not 

 allow the captain of the John Ingalls to give up the seine, so the lat- 

 ter returned the twenty-five dollars to Captain McLaughlin. 



The schooner Sarah H. Prior had two seines, one large and one 

 small size. It was the large one which she lost and the schooner John 

 Ingalls picked up. She had to leave Malpeque without it, and con- 

 sequently came home with a broken voyage and in debt. 



THOS. MCLAUGHLIN. 

 GEORGE F. LITTLE. 

 CHARLES FINNEGAN. 

 SUFFOLK:, ss: 



BOSTON, December 88, 1886. 



Personally appeared before me Thomas McLaughlin, George F. 

 Little, and Charles Finnegan, who signed and made* oath that the 

 foregoing statement was true. 



[SEAL.] CHARLES W. HALLSTRAIN, 



Notary Public. 



Sir L. S. Sackville West to Mr. Bayard. 



WASHINGTON, January 28, 1887. 



(Received January 29.) 



SIR: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of 

 yesterday's date, and to inform you that I have submitted the case of 

 the American schooner Sarah H. Prior to Her Majesty's Government 

 for investigation, as requested by you. 

 I have, etc., 



L. S. SACKVILLE WEST. 



