796 APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



Office of Alfred Fkaser, 50, Wall Street, 



Neiv Yorlc, October 26, 1892. 

 Dear Sir: Inclosed please find particulars of assortment of your 

 salted fur-seal skins, which will be sold on the 24th jjroximo — not on 

 the 23rd, as previously announced. 

 Yours ver}^ truly, 



(Signed) Alfred Eraser. 



C. D. Ladd, Esq., 



San Francisco, California. 



Deposition of J. IS. Worth, 



State of California, City and County of San Francisco. 



J. S. Worth, being duly sworn, deposes and says: 



1. I am a seal hunter, and master of the sealing-schooner " LaNiufa," 

 and was so in the sealing season of 1891. 



2. I know James Griffin, of this city. He was with me in the "La 

 Niufa " in that year as a boat-steerer. He was not a hunter, and did 

 not kill any seals. I would have known it had he done so. I hired him 

 as a green hand, and he acted as one, and I do not think he was ever 

 out sealing as a hunter. 



3. I am familiar with the names of all the sealing- vessels, and I never 

 heard of one called the '' Maggie Koss," and I do not believe there is 

 such a vessel engaged in the sealing business. 



4. I have not been paid or promised anything in consideration of 

 having made the foregoing statement, which I have read over and found 

 correct. 



(Signed) John Worth. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 1st day of December, 1892. 

 [seal.] (Signed) Lincoln Sonntag, Notary Public. 



Deposition of Charles D. Ladd. 



State of California, City and County of San Francisco. 



Charles D. Ladd, of the city of San Erancisco, in the State of Cali- 

 fornia, being duly sworn, deposes and says: 



1. I live in the city of San Francisco, in the State of California, am 

 an American subject, and am a merchant, doing business at 529 and 

 531, Kearny street, in said city. 



2. Am managing owner of the sealing-vessel " Emma and Louisa," 

 and have so owned and managed her for the past two years, and this 



year she was commanded by Captain George AVester. 

 175 3. I knoAv George B. Barber and John Bilodo, and they are in 



my employ, and have been for some years. 

 4. On or about the 11th day of July last my vessel, tlie "Emma and 

 Louisa" aforesaid, came into this port from a sealing voyage, having 

 on board 1,342 sealskins. After I had entered her at the Custom-house 

 I was informed by an official there that before they could be landed 

 they had to be inspected by the Government Inspector appointed for 

 that purpose, and on inquiring who the person was, was told that it 

 was the inspector of H. Liebes and Co., or something to that effect. 



