APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 859 



Canada, Province of British Columbia, City of Victoria. 



I, George Collins, of the city of Victoria, in the Province of British 

 Columbia, ship-owner, do solemnly declare: 



1. That I am the owner of the British vessel "Sea Lion," registered 

 at the port of Victoria aforesaid. 



2. That I had the "Sea Lion" built under my own supervision, in the 

 fall of 1889. The total cost of the " Sea Lion," when ready for sea, with- 

 out sealing outfit, was 6,500 dollars, exclusive of my own services. In 

 the fall of 1890 I had the "Sea Lion" put upon the ways, recaulked 

 and coppered, at a cost of 1,000 dollars. This vessel is copper-fastened 

 throughout, strongly built, and is lirst-class in every respect. 



3. That I sent the "Sea Lion" to San Francisco in January 1890 for 

 the purpose of fitting her out at that port for a sealing voyage. At 

 that time I could not get either boats or guns of the kind I wanted at 

 Victoria. At San Francisco I got a comj)lete sealing outfit^ and pro- 

 visioned the " Sea Lion" for the season at a cost of 4,300 dollars. When 

 the "Sea Lion" sailed out of San Francisco about the 1st February, 

 she had cost me in cash over 11,000 dollars. She carried five boats and 

 nineteen men, and brought to Victoria in October, about the 10th, 1,815 

 seal-skins. The voyage yielded me a net profit of 14,000 dollars. 



4. The "Sea Lion" is built expressly for sealing, and would be prac- 

 tically valueless for any other purpose. There is no business on the 

 Pacific coast for which any of the sealing vessels are suitable, and the 

 closing of the business would render the whole fleet about worthless. 



And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the 

 same to be true, and by virtue of "The Act respecting Extra- Judicial 

 Oaths." 



(Signed) Geo. Collins. 



Subscribed and declared by the said George Collins before me, at the 

 city of Victoria, in the Province of British Columbia, this 22nd day of 

 December, A. d. 1892. 



[SEAL.] (Signed) Arthur L. Belyea, 



A Notary Public in and for the Province of British Columbia. 



227 Canada, Province of British Columbia, City of Victoria. 



I, John Graham Cox, of the city of Victoria, in the Province of 

 British Columbia, merchant, do solemnly declare: 



1. That I am a member of the mercantile firm of E. B. Marvin and 

 Company, the owners of the hereinafter named sealing-schooner " Car- 

 lotta G. Cox," and I am the managing owner thereof. 



2. The said "Carlotta G. Cox" was built in the latter part of the 

 year 1890, and completed in the early part of 1891, at the ship-yard 

 of O. K. Marner, in this city. 



3. That the contract price for the hull and spars of the said schooner 

 was 5,600 dollars. The cost of rigging, sails, and general equipment, 

 exclusive of the special requirements for sealing .purposes, was 2,882 

 dol. 87 c, and the cost of coppering to load-line mark was 1.020 dol. 

 7 c, making a total cost of the " Carlotta G. Cox," when ready for her 

 sealing outfit, of 9,502 dol. 94 c. 



4. The said schooner carried on her sealing voyage for 1892 six boats, 

 which cost 581 dollars, nine shot-guns (Parker's), costing 617 dol. 50 c, 

 and one rifle costing 18 dollars. The ammunition put on board cost 

 400 dol. 03 c, and the provisions 2,579 dol. 1 c. Insurance for the 



