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'Ynclosure 1 in No, 52.] 
Rear- Admiral Seymour to Admiralty. 
‘¢ TRIUMPH,” AT ESQUIMALT, August 9, 1887. 
Sir: In confirmation of my telegram of the 6th instant, I have the honour to report 
the British Columbian sealing-schooners “Anna Beck,” ‘‘ Dolphin,” and “ W. P. 
Sayward” were seized in the Behring’s Sea, between the 2nd and 12th July last, by 
the American Revenue steamer ‘‘ Rush,” and were towed to Ounalaska, 
Mr. Andrew Laing, mate and part owner of the ‘‘W. P. Sayward,” came down 
here and returns to-day to Sitka. He has made the following statement to me: 
“The ‘W. P. Sayward,’ of Victoria, entered Behring’s Sea on the 2d July, having 
on board 479 skins, procured off the west coast of Vancouver Island, &c. On the 9th 
she was seized by the ‘ Rush’ about 50 miles to the northward and westward of Ouna- 
laska, and was towed to Ounalaska, which took twelve hours. The skins on board 
were put into a lighter and taken to the Alaska Commercial Company’s store. A 
quartermaster was put on board and the schooner sent to Sitka, the captain and 
myself being brought before Judge Dawson and bound over to appear on the 22nd 
August to answer a charge of ‘killing seals in American waters.’ 
““No seals whatever had been taken since we entered Behring’s Sea.” 
Iam informed that as the ‘‘Olympian,” an American excursion steamer, was leaving 
Sitka, she saw a steamer coming in with several schooners in tow. : 
I inclose a copy of the indictment against the ‘‘ W. P. Sayward,” a copy of the 
declaration made by Mr. Andrew Laing before a Notary Public at Victoria, and also 
a cutting from the Victoria ‘‘ Daily Colonist.” 
I have, &c. 
(Signed) M. CULME-SEYMOUR. 
{Inclosure 2 in No. 52.] 
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF ALASKA. 
United States v. Geo. R. Ferry and A. Laing.—Information. 
DISTRICT OF ALASKA, 88. 
George R. Ferry and A. Laing are accused by M. D. Ball, United States District 
Attorney for Alaska, by this information, of the crime of killing fur seals within the 
waters of Alaska Territory, committed as follows: 
The said George R. Ferry and A. Laing, on the 8th day of July 4. D. 1887, in the 
District of Alaska and within the jurisdiction of this Court, to wit, in Behring’s 
Sea, within the waters of Alaska Territory, did kill ten fur seals, contrary to the 
Statutes of the United States in such case made and provided, and against the peace 
and dignity of the United States of America. 
Dated at Sitka the 23rd day of July, 1887. 
I, M. D. Ball, United States District Attorney for Alaska, being duly sworn, say 
the within information is true, as I verily believe. 
(Signed) M. C. D. BALL, 
Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 23rd day of July A. D. 1887. 
(Signed) H. E. Haypon, Clerk, 
By A. A. Meyer, Deputy Clerk. 
I certify that the within is a true copy of the information filed in the cause, 
(Signed) H. E. Haypon, Clerk. 
By A. A. MeyER, Deputy Clerk. 
84 Personally appeared before me, Montague W. Tyrwhitt Drake, Notary Pub- 
lic, duly authorized, admitted, and sworn, residing and practising in Victoria, 
British Columbia, Andrew Laing, mate of the British schooner ‘‘W. P. Sayward,” 
who states the above-written information was served upon him by Mr. M. D. Ball on 
the 23rd July, 1887. 
(Signed) M. W. TyRWHITT DRAKE, 
Notary Public. 
[Inclosure 3 in No. 52.9 
Declaration. 
I, Andrew Laing, of Victoria, mate of the British schooner ‘* W. P. Sayward,” do 
solemnly and sincerely declare that I left Victoria, British Columbia, in the schooner 
“W.P. Sayward” on the 16th day of May, 1887, bound on a sealing voyage, with a 
