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Deposition of George 6. Perkins, general agent of Pacific Coast Steam- 

 ship Company. 



State of California, 



City and County of San Francisco, ss: 



George C. Perkins, of Goodall, Perkins & Co., general agent for the 

 Pacific Coast Steamship Company, of San Francisco, being duly sworn, 

 deposes and says : 



I am the secretary of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company; that 

 we do now and did in 1886 and 1887, run regular mail 

 boats between San Francisco, California, and Victoria, ° cupa lon ' 

 B. C. Also between Sitka, Alaska, and Victoria, B. C. 



The regular passenger rates between these points in 

 1886 and 1887, were as follows: p a *ffi7S. rate8 on 



San Francisco to Victoria — 



Cabin $20.00 



Steerage 10. 00 



Sitka to Victoria : 



Cabin 50. 00 



Steerage 30.00 



Port Wrangle to Victoria (which rates would apply to passengers from Fort 

 Simpson to Victoria) : 



Cabin 30. 00 



Steerage 15. 00 



A British Columbia transportation company which runs between Fort Simp- 

 son and Victoria, I am informed, charges between those two points for — 



Cabin 20.00 



Steerage 10. 00 



George C. Perkins. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me this 28th day of October, A. D. 

 1892. 

 [seal.] Clement Bennett, 



Notary Public. 



Deposition of Harry S. Smith, marine secretary of Sun Insurance Co, 



State of California, 



City and County of San Francisco, ss: 

 Harry S. Smith, being duly sworn, deposes and says: 

 I am forty-four years of age; reside in San Francisco; am an Ameri- 

 can citizen, and am marine secretary of the Sun Insur- 

 ance Company of San Francisco. I am familiar with ccupa lon ' 

 mariue insurance, and our company has carried for a 

 number of years a line of insurance on sealing vessels, Ex P erience - 

 some of them as far back as 1886 and 1887. The rates 

 of insurance on such vessels in 1886 and 1887, on hull In8urance rate - 

 and outfit was eight to nine per cent per annum. At present it is less, 

 being about seven per cent per annum, and we make no distinction as 

 to rates between sailing and steam vessels engaged in the sealing busi- 

 ness. The cargo to the extent of the outfit is insured under the outfit 

 policy, the catch taking the place of the outfit consumed. 

 Sealing vessels usually take out their insurance in Insurance date - 

 February or the last of January, although occasionally one takes out 

 insurance in the fall of the year for sealing along the coast in winter. 

 Insurance premiums are paid quarter in cash at time of insurance; the 



