APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 27 
[Inclosure in No. 5.] 
Extract from the “New York Herald” of September 21, 1886. 
THE BRITISKH SEALERS—OFFICERS OF SOME OF THE TRESPASSING SCHOONERS 
FINED AND IMPRISONED. 
WASHINGTON, September 20, 1886. 
Acting Secretary Fairchild has received a telegram from Captain Abbey, com- 
manding the Revenue steamer “Corwin,” dated at Nanaimo, British Columbia, 
which is as follows: 
“ Respectfully report ‘ Corwin’ here at request of Governor Swineford and Judge 
Dawson. Have brought here twenty-two British seamen, released from seized 
sealers. Am to land remaining released American seamen at Port Townsend. Mas- 
ters and mates of the seized craft have been convicted and sentenced to fines or 
imprisonment, or both. I made full depositions for libel suits before leaving Sitka.” 
Despatches have been received at the Navy Departinent from Lieutenant-Com- 
mander Nichols, commanding the “Pinta,” from Sitka, Alaska, relating to the seizure 
of the British sealers. In the despatch dated the 28th of August he say S:: 
“On the 24th instant the Revenue steamer ‘Corwin’ came in, bringing the Ameri- 
can vessel ‘San Diego,’ of San Francisco, seized for catching seals unlawfully. She 
also reported the seizure of three English schooners for the same offence. ‘The latter 
were left at Ounalaska in charge of the United States Deputy Marshal, the officers, 
crews, and cargoes being brought here. A large quantity of arms and ammunition 
was also seized. The matter comes up before the District Court here next week, 
and it is probable that interesting international questions will come up, as well also 
as the jurisdiction of the United States over the entire seas in the Arctie and Beh- 
ring’s Seas east of the boundary line.” 
In a despatch dated the 2nd September he says that two of the cases have been dis- 
posed of as follows: 
“The captain and mate of the British schooner ‘Thornton’ were tried by jury, 
found guilty, and sentenced each to imprisonment for thirty days and fined, the cap- 
tain 500 dollars and the mate 300 dollars. The captain and mate of the American 
schooner ‘San Diego’ waived a jury, and were tried before the Court. Both were 
found guilty and sentenced, the captain to two months’ imprisonment, and the mate 
to one month’s imprisonment. 
“The cases of the two other British schooners will come up in a day or two. The 
captain of one of them has disappeared, and, it is supposed, has committed suicide.” 
From an inclosure in one of these despatches it is learned that the ‘‘Corwin,” 
when conveying her prizes to port, sighted five other vessels, all doubtless engaged 
in unlawful sealing, They made sail with all possible haste as soon as the Revenue 
vessel was sighted, and the latter was unable to follow them without abandoning 
her prizes. 
12 No. 6. 
Admiralty to Foreign Office.—( Received October 11.) 
ADMIRALTY, October 7, 1886. 
Str: With reference to my letters of the 26th August and the 20th 
September,* relative to the seizure of British Columbian sealing 
schooners, [ am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admi- 
ralty to transmit to you, for the perusal of the Secretary of State for 
Foreign Affairs, copy of an Act to prevent the extermination of fur- 
bearing animals in Alaska, together with copy of the lease of the 
United States to the Alaska Commercial Company to take fur-seals in 
the Territory of Alaska. A similar letter has been sent to the Colonial 
Office. 
Tam, &c. 
(Signed) EvAN MACGREGOR. 
* See Inclosure 1 in No. 1, and Inclosure 2 in No. 3. 
