258 OFFICIAL REPORTS. 



of Ammunition ; " " Division of the Seal-skin Catches by British Colum- 

 bia Sealers;" and the "Document of Extracts from Evidence." 1 

 I am, sir, your obedient servant, 



Levi "W. Myers, 



Consul. 



[Inclosures as above indicated.] 

 REGISTERED TONNAGE RECORD. 



The registered tonnage of the sealing schooners named in the list 

 found below is as follows, according to the register of said vessels in 

 the custom-house at Victoria, British Columbia: 



Name. 



Registered 

 toDnage. 



Anna Beck 



Carolena 



Thornton 



Onward 



W. P. Say ward.... 

 Grace (a'tearuer) . . 

 Dolphin (steamer) 



Ada 



Alfred Adams 



40.38 

 31.90 

 29.36 

 35.20 

 59.79 

 76.87 

 60.10 

 50.95 

 6s. 75 



A. B. Milne, 

 Collector of Customs, 

 Customs: Canada, Victoria, B. C, 

 November 22, 1892. 



United States Consulate, British Columbia, 



Victoria, B. C, November 22, 1802. 

 I, Levi W. Myers, Consul of the United States at Victoria, B. C, do 

 hereby certify that the signature of A. B. Milne at the foot of the writ- 

 ing hereunto attached is his true and genuine signature made and ac- 

 knowledged in my presence, and that the said A. B. Milne is person- 

 ally known to me; and I do further certify that he is collector of cus- 

 toms at the port of Victoria, British Columbia. 



In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the 

 seal of the consulate, at Victoria, B. C, this day and year next above 

 written, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred 

 and seventeenth. 

 [seal.] Levi W. Myers, 



Consul of the United States. 



GENERAL STATISTICS. 



The statistics given below present the number of schooners of all 

 nationalities chartered and fitted out in' British Columbia for pelagic 

 seal-hunting in the North Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea for the years 

 1881 to 189% inclusive. The number of boats and canoes, number of 

 crews including whites and Indians, and the Catch of seal skins are 

 also given for the above-mentioned period: 



1881. 



Total number of schooners, 10 — British, 9; American, 1. Number of 

 boats, 12; canoes, 146. Total crews, 338 — whites, 46; Indians, 292. 



[ x This inclosure will be found with the "Matter relating to ownership of certain 

 sealing vessels seized by the United States/' post p. 301.] 



