126 APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
| Inclosure 4 in No. 70.] 
Mr. "Tamley to the Minister of Marine and Fisheries. 
CustomM-Housk, Victoria, British Columbia, July 26, 1887. 
Dear Sir: Captain Carroll, master of the American steamer ‘Olympian,” has 
been taking parties of excursionists to Sitka, and I asked him to see the Judge, Mr. 
Dawson, and find out something we could trust respecting the seized vessels. Daw- 
son told him he had received no orders whatever for the release of the vessels; they 
have not been sold, and remain as they were, under seizure. Captain Carroll told 
Dawson of the telegram dated last January, purporting to have been sent by Mr. 
Garland, Attorney-General at Washington, in the President’s name, ordering the 
vessels to be released. Dawson said he had heard of it hefore, and that it 
107 must have been as he termed it, a “put up thing,” as nothing of the kind had 
reached either himself or the United States Marshal at Sitka. 
The serious part is that our people, trusting to the story of the order for release, 
have sent thirteen vessels again this year to the sealing grounds. One has been 
seized already, and if the others fall in the way of the Revenue cutters they will 
probably be seized also. 
I may perhaps learn something more from the Admiral when he Tetur ns from 
Alaska. and, if so, I will write to you again. 
Yours, &c, 
(Signed. ) W. HAMLEY. 
[Inclosure 5 in No. 70.—Telegraphice. ] 
The Attorney-General, Washington, to Judge Lafayette Dawson and M., D. Ball. 
WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, January 26, 1887. 
I am directed by the President to instruct you to discontinue any further proceed- 
ings in the matter of the seizure of the British vessels ‘‘ Carolina,” ‘‘Onward,” and 
“Thornton,” and discharge all vessels now held under such seizure, and release all 
persous that may be under arrest in connection therewith. 
[Inclosure 6 in No. 70.] 
Mr. Dawson to Mr. Atkins, 
To BARTON ATKINS, 
United States Marshal for the District of Alaska. 
You are hereby directed to release the vessels ‘‘ Carolina,” “Onward,” ‘* Thornton,” 
and ‘‘San Diego,” which were seized in Behring’s Sea for violation of section 1956, 
United States’ Statutes, together with their tackle, apparel], skins,* guns, ammuni- 
tion, small boats, and everything pertaining to said vessels, this 19th day of Febru- 
ary, 1887. 
(Signed. ) LAFAYETTE DAWSON, 
District Judge, District of Alaska. 
{Inclosure 7 in No. 70.] 
Mr. Hamley to the Minister of Marine and Fisheries. 
CustoM-Houskg, Victoria, September 1, 1887. 
Srr: On the 7th August the master of the United States Revenue cutter ‘“ Rush” 
seized in Behring’s Sea, 60 miles from any land, the Canadian schooner “ Alfred 
Adams,” her register, clearance, guns, and ‘ammunition, and the seal-skins she had 
taken (1, 386) were all taken from her, and the vessel herself ordered to Sitka. No 
one from the Revenue cutter was put. on board by Captain Shepard, and the master 
of the “Alfred Adams,” instead of going, as he was desired, to Sitka, returned to 
Victoria, arriving here the 31st Au gust. 
1 forward the master’s depositions before a notary public, and what Captain Shep- 
ard is pleased to term a certificate of the schooner’s seizure, signed by himself. Mr. 
Drake, a solicitor, is at Sitka, waiting for the cases to be heard in Court. ‘The trial 
* Please note skins.—C. A. M. 
