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STATE oF CALIFORNIA, CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, 
Collector’s Office, Custom-house, December 23, 1885. 
I hereby certify the foregoing to be correct copies of original documents on file at 
this office. 
STATE OF CALIFORNIA, 
City and County of San Francisco: 
John T. Fogarty, being duly sworn, deposes and says that the foregoing are true 
and correct copies of original documents on file in the office of the Collector of Cus- 
toms of the port of San Francisco, that he has compared the foregoing with said 
originals, and knows them to be correct copies to his own knowledge. 
(Signed) JOHN T. FOGARTY. 
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 23rd day of December, 1885. 
(Signed) JOUN E. HAMILL, Notary Public. 
No. 7. 
Colonial Office to Foreign Ofjice.—( Received October 16.) 
DOWNING STREET, October 16, 1886. 
Sir: With reference to the ietter from this Department of the 25th 
ultimo, respecting the seizure of certain Canadian sealing schoon- 
16 ers in Behring’s Sea, I am directed by Mr. Secretary Stanhope 
to transmit to you, to be laid before the Earl of Iddesleigh, copies 
of three despatches from the Officer administering the Government of 
Canada on the subject. 
Mr. Stanhope would be glad to be informed whether Lord Iddesleigh 
has directed any action to be taken on the letter above referred to. 
lam, We. 
(Signed) Rh. H. MEADE. 
[Inclosure 1 in No. 7.] 
Administrator Lord A. E. Russell to Mr. Stanhope. 
HALIFAX, Nova, Scotia, September 27, 1886. 
Srr: I have the honour to forward herewith, for transmission to the Foreign 
Office, a copy of an approved Report of a Committee of the Privy Council, submit- 
ting depositions from some of the officers and men of the Canadian schooners 
“Onward,” “Thornton,” and “Carolina,” relative to the seizure of those vessels in 
Behring’s Sea by the United States Revenue cutter ‘‘Corwin,” and their subsequent 
detention at the port of Ounalaska, in the Territory of Alaska. 
2. You will observe from the accompanying papers that it appears that the 
schooners mentioned are Canadian vessels, fitted out in Victoria, British Columbia, 
for the capture of seals in the waters of the Northern Pacific Ocean adjacent to 
Vancouver Island, Queen Charlotte Islands, and Alaska, and that at the time of 
their seizure by the ‘‘Corwin” on the 1st August last they were taking seals in the 
open sea at a distance of more than 60 miles from land. 
3. My Minister of Marine and Fisheries has taken steps to get further depositions 
from the owners, masters, and crews of the above-mentioned vessels in order that 
a claim may be made upon the United States Government for damages for the 
unwarranted seizure of British vessels on the high sea. 
4. I have communicated a copy of this Order in Council, with the accompanying 
papers, to Her Majesty’s Minister at Washington, 
Thave, &¢, Pad bake 
