922 CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. 



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



WASHINGTON, May 17, 1887. 



(Received May 18.) 



SIR: With reference to your notes of the 1st December, llth No- 

 vember, and 27th January last, I have the honor to inclose herewith 

 copies of dispatches from the governor-general of Canada covering 

 reports of a committee of the privy council respecting the cases of the 

 United States fishing vessels Mollie Adams, Laura Sayward, Jennie 

 Seavems, and Sarah H. Prior, which I have received from the Mar- 

 quis of Salisbury for communication to the United States Govern- 

 ment. 



I have, etc., L. S. SACKVILLE WEST. 



[Inclosure No. 1.] 



The Marquis of Lansdowne to Sir Henry Holland. 



GOVERNMENT HOUSE, 



Ottawa, April 12, 1SS7. 



SIR: I caused to be referred for the consideration of my Govern- 

 ment a copy of your dispatch of the 23d February last transmitting 

 copy of a letter from the foreign office, with its inclosures, respecting 

 the case of the Sarah H. Prior and requesting to be furnished with a 

 report upon the alleged conduct of the captain of the Canadian reve- 

 nue cutter Critic on the occasion referred to, and I have now the honor 

 to forward herewith a certified copy of an approved report of a 

 committee of my privy council embodying a statement of Captain 

 McLaren, of the Critic, with reference to the circumstances com- 

 plained of. 



I have, etc., LANSDOWNE. 



[Sub-lnclosure.] 



Certified copy of a report of a committee of the honorable the privy 

 council for Canada, approved by his excellency the governor- 

 general in council on the 7th April, 1887. 



The committee of the privy council have had under consideration 

 a dispatch dated 23d February, 1887, from the right honorable the 

 secretary of state for the colonies asking that an investigation may 

 be made into the conduct of the captain of the Canadian cruiser 

 Critic as regards the treatment extended to Capt. Thomas McLaugh- 

 lin, of the U. S. fishing schooner Sarah H. Prior, in the harbor of 

 Malpeque, Prince Edward Island, in September last. 



The minister of marine and fisheries, to whom the dispatch was 

 referred, submits the following statement of Captain McLaren, of the 

 Critic, with reference to the circumstances complained of. 



On or about the 14th September, 1886, Captain McLaughlin, of 

 the Sarah H. Prior, came on board the government cruiser Critic at 

 Malpeque, Prince Edward Island, wanting to know if he would be 

 infringing on the laws by paying the captain of the schooner John 

 Ingalls a small sum of money for the recovery of a seine which he 

 said he had lost a few days before, and which had been picked up by 

 the said captain. 



