APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 119 
No. 68. 
Admiralty to Foreign Office.—(Received October 14.) 
ADMIRALTY, October 13, 1887. 
Sir: With reference to previous correspondence respecting the seiz- 
ure of sealing schooners, I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners 
of the Admiralty to transmit, for the information of the Secretary of 
State for Foreign Affairs, copy of a letter from the Commander-in-chief 
on the Pacific Station dated the 23rd September, forwarding an extract 
from the “ Victoria Daily Times” of Monday, the 19th September, 1887, 
containing a demurrer handed in at Sitka by Mr. M. W.'T. Drake, Q.C., 
who was sent to Sitka by the Dominion Government of Canada. 
I am to request that the newspaper extracts may be forwarded to 
the Colonial Office for the perusal of Secretary Sir Henry Holland, with 
a request that they may be returned to the Admiralty when done with. 
Iam, &e. 
(Signed) Evan MACGREGOR. 
[Inclosure 1 in No. 68.] 
Rear-Admiral Seymour to Admiralty. 
“TRIUMPH,” AT ESQUIMALT, September 23, 1887. 
S1r: Referring to the capture of sealing schooners by the American Government, 
I have the honour to forward a copy of a demurrer handed in at Sitka by Mr. M. 
W.T. Drake, Q. C., of Victoria, who was sent to Sitka by the Dominion Govern- 
ment of Canada. 
100 2. It would appear by Lord Salisbury’s despatch of the 10th August, 1887, 
that orders were given for the schooners seized in 1886 to be released, and I am 
informed a telegram to that effect was received at Sitka; nothing was done, and the 
vessels are, as stated in my letter of the 14th instant, high and dry at Ounalaska, 
and I am credibly informed so wormeaten and damaged as hardly to be worth re- 
moval. Certainly no information has ever been received by any authority here, or 
by the owners of the schooners seized in 1886, that they were to be released. 
3. With regard to the vessels seized this year, the crews have been released and 
one of the schooners has been chartered by the authorities at Sitka to proceed to 
Ounalaska and bring the skins taken out of the schooners seized this year and landed 
at the latter place, to Sitka. The trials will probably take place at Sitka about 
this time. 
I have, &c. ' 
(Signed) M. CULME SEYMOUR. 
[Inclosure 2 in No. 68.] 
Extract from the “ Victoria Daily Times” of September 19, 1887. 
At present the seizure of the Victoria seal-hunting schooners with their officers, 
crew, and hunters is the topic of the hour in this city. Mr. Drake’s demurrer, the 
full text of which is herewith given, will be read with especial interest: 
“BRIEF OF MR. M. W. T. DRAKE, Q. C. 
“(Filed on behalf of the officers of the British sealers.) 
“UNITED STATES Court, District of Alaska. 
“The United States, plaintiff, v. J. D. Warren and J. C. Riley, defendants. 
“Brief in support of the demurrer filed herein the 30th August, 1887, on behalf of 
the masters and owners of the British schooners ‘ Anna Beck, a3 Dolphin,’ ‘Grace,’ 
and ‘W. P. Sayward,’ seized by the United States cutter for an alleged infraction 
of an Act of the United States Congress No. 120, being an Act to prevent the exter- 
mination of fur-bearing animals in Alaska. The Act is directly against killing seals 
