146 APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
You will observe that whereas the amount at first claimed in respect of the seizure 
of these two vessels was 102,228 dollars, the amount now claimed is 71,130 dol. 66 ¢. 
In the case of the ‘‘Onward,” the third vessel seized, the claim has not yet been 
returned by the owners. 
Ihave, &c. 
(Signed) LANSDOWNE. 
[Inclosure 2 in No. 87.] 
Certified Copy of a Report of a Committee of the Honourable the Privy Couneil for 
Canada, approved by his Lacellency the Governor-General in Council on the 29th 
November, 1887. 
The Committee of the Privy Council have had under consideration a despatch, 
dated the 14th September, 1887, from the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for 
the Colonies, on the subject of the seizure of British sealing-vessels in Behring’s Sea 
by United States Revenue cruizers, and directing attention to certain claims for 
compensation against the United States Government. 
The Minister of Marine and Fisheries, to whom the despatch and inclosures were 
referred, stated that the claims (three in number) referred to in this despatch 
127 were sent back to the owners of the vessels for revision. In the cases of two 
of these, the ‘‘ Thornton” and “Carolina,” a fulland detailed revised Statement 
of the losses is submitted herewith. These, the Minister submits, are not unreason- 
able; the claim for the ‘‘ Onward,” the third vesse) seized, has not yet been returned 
by the owners. 
The Committee recommend that your Excellency be moved to forward the claims 
herein mentioned to the Right Honourable the Seéretary of State for the Colonies, 
for transmission to the United States Government. 
All which is respectfully submitted for your Excellency’s approval. 
(Signed) JOHN J. MCGEE, 
Clerk, Privy Council, Canada. 
[Inclosure 3 in No. 87.] 
Declaration of James Douglas Warren. 
Ciry or OTTAWA, Province of Ontario, Dominion of Canada, 
1, James Douglas Warren, of the city of Victoria, in the Province of British 
Columbia, of the Dominion of Canada, mariner and ship-owner, solemnly and sin- 
cerely declare as follows: 
1. That I am the duly authorized agent of William Muusle, of the city of Victoria 
aforesaid, the owner of the hereinafter mentioned schooner ‘‘ Carolina.” 
2. That the schooner ‘‘Carolina” is a British vessel, registered at the port of 
Victoria aforesaid, of about ——— tons burden, builders’ measurement, and that in 
A.D. 1884 the ‘* Carolina” was rebuilt and lengthened about 15 feet by a section built 
amidships, and put in first-class order and condition. In A. D. 1885 the said ‘‘ Caro. 
lina”? was valued for insurance by the Union Insurance Company at 4,000 dollars, 
and in A.D. 1886 the California Insurance Company placed the same value, namely, 
4,000 dollars, upon her for a like purpose. Iam informed by the said William Munsle, 
and believe that since the rebuilding and enlargement of the ‘‘ Carolina,” she has not 
been re-registered at the port of Victoria aforesaid nor at any other port, and that 
consequently her actual tonnage is greater than appears by the official record, or the 
register of the said ‘‘ Carolina.” 
3. That on or about the 20th day of May, A.D. 1886, the said ‘‘ Carolina” left the 
port of Victoria aforesaid, after having been duly cleared at Customs, one James 
Ogilvie being master, and one James Blake mate, and a crew of nine sailors and 
hunters, on a fishing and hunting voyage in the North Pacific Ocean and Behring’s 
Sea. 
4, That on the Ist day of August, in said year 1886, while in said Behring’s Sea in 
north latitude 55° 50’, west longitude 168° 53’, then being from 65 to 75 miles from 
the nearest land, and while, as I am informed and verily believe, lawfully pursuing 
the objects of said voyage, the said schooner ‘‘ Carolina” was seized by the United 
States steam-ship ‘‘Corwin,” and taken to Ounalaska, in the Territory of Alaska, 
of the United States of America, and her voyage broken up. 
5. That on arrival at Ounalaska aforesaid the ‘‘ Carolina” was, by order of the 
United States authorities, stripped of her outfit and running-gear, the seal-skins on 
board taken out, the captain, James Ogilvie, and the mate, James Blake, placed 
under arrest and sent to Sitka, in said Territory of Alaska, and the crew sent to the 
city of San Francisco. 
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