APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 85 
UnitED STATES OF AMERICA, District of Alaska, 8s. 
This is to certify that on the 7th day of September, 1886, before 12 o’clock noon of 
that day, I served the annexed notice on the within-named Hans Guttormsen, at 
Sitka, District of Alaska, by then and there personally delivering to said Hans Gut- 
tormsen a copy of said notice; and then and there gave him the privilege of being 
present at the taking of said depositions. 
Dated the 9th September, 1886. 
(Signed) BARTON ATKINS, 
United States Marshal. 
On the 10th September, 1886, were filed the following depositions: 
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT IN AND FOR THE DISTRICT OF ALASKA, 
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 
The United States v. The Schooner ‘‘ Thornton.”—No. 50. 
Depositions of witnesses sworn and examined before me on the 7th day of Septem- 
ber, 1886, at 7 o’clock p. M. of said day, and on the &th and 9th September, 1886, 
thereafter, at the Clerk’s Office of said Court in Sitka, District of Alaska, United 
States of America, by virtue and in pursuance of the order of the said Court, made 
and entered in the above entitled action on the 6th September, 1586, directing that 
the testimony and depositions of said witnesses be taken before me at said first- 
mentioned time and place, and at such subsequent times as the taking of the same 
might be continued to by me, in said action then and there pending in said District 
Court between the United States as plaintiff and the schooner ‘‘Thornton” as 
defendant, on behalf and at the instance of the said plaintift the United States, and 
upon notice of the time and place of the taking of said depositions served upon 
Hans Guttormsen, the Captain of the said schooner, and in possession thereof at the 
time of seizure, and upon W. Clark, Esq., his Attorney, the owners thereof being 
unknown and without the jurisdiction of this Court. 
Captain C. A. Abbey, being duly sworn, deposes and says: 
Q. State your name and occupation.—A. Captain C. A. Abbey, in the United States 
Revenue Marine Service, at present in command of the United States Revenue 
steamer ‘‘ Corwin,” on special duty in Alaskan waters, for the protection of the Seal 
Islands and of the Government interests in Alaska generally. 
68 Q. What were you doing and what occurred on the Ist day of August last in 
the line of your duty?—A. J was cruizing in Behring Sea about 70 miles south- 
southeast from St. George Island, in about latitude and longitude age | 
found the four boats of the British steam-schooner ‘‘Thornton,” of Victoria, British 
Columbia, engaged in killing fur-seal. Each boat had in her from three to eight 
freshly killed seal, arms, and ammunition, rowers, and hunters, who stated that they 
belonged to the said schooner ‘‘Thornton,” and were engaged in taking or killing 
fur-seal. Some of them, if not all, were seen shooting at the fur-seal which were 
swimming in their neighbourhood. On this evidence, I caused the vessel to be seized 
by Lieutenant Cantwell, took her in tow, and proceeded with her to Oonalaska, 
where I placed the vessel, cargo, tackle, furniture, and appurtenances in charge of 
Deputy United States Marshal Isaac Anderson, of Oonalaska, the cargo of fur-seal 
skins being stored in ‘‘ Keuch,” in one of the warehouses of the Alaska Commercial 
Company, and under seal. One boat of the ‘‘Thornton” was sent to Sitka by the 
schooner ‘‘San Diego,” and placed in custody of the United States Marshal at Sitka. 
All of this property is now in the custody of the United States Marshal at Sitka, 
including her arms and ammunition, which I brought to Sitka on the ‘‘ Corwin.” 
@. Was this the vessel against which the libel of information is filed?—A. It is. 
Q. Did this all occur within the waters of Alaska and the Territory of Alaska, and 
within the jurisdiction of this Court?—A. It did. 
Q. Did this occur within the waters of the sea navigable for vessels of 10 tons 
burden or over?—A. It did. 
(Signed) C. A. ABBEY. 
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 9th day of September, A. D. 1886, after 
having been read over by me to deponent. 
[SEAL. ] ANDREW T. Lrwis, 
Clerk, United States District Court. 
Lieutenant John C. Cantwell, being duly sworn, deposes and says: 
Q. State your name, occupation, and age.—A. John C. Cantwell, Third Lieutenant 
United States Revenue Marine Service, at present on duty United States Revenue 
steamer ‘‘ Corwin,” and over the age of 21 years. 
Q. Were you so on the Ist day of August last?—A. I was. 
