156 APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
137 The Minister of Marine and Fisheries, to whom the despatch and inclosures 
were referred, states that the claims (three in number) referred to in this 
despatch were sent back to the owners of the vessels for revision. In the cases of 
two of these, the “Thornton” and ‘‘ Carolina,” a full and detailed revised statement 
of the losses has already been submitted, and he (the Minister) submits herewith a 
revised statement of the loss to the owners of the schooner ‘‘Onward” on account of 
the seizure of said vessel. This claim the Minister considers to be a reasonable one. 
The Committee recommend that your Excellency be moved to forward the claim 
herein mentioned to the Right Honourable the Secretary 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. 89.] 
Declaration of James Douglas Warren. 
Ciry oF OTTAWA, Province of Ontario, Dominion of Canada. 
I, James Douglas Warren, of the city of Victoria, in the Province of British 
Columbia of the Dominion of Canada, master mariner and ship-owner, do solemnly 
and sincerely declare as follows: 
1. Chat Iam the duly authorized agent of Charles Spring, merchant, of the said 
city of Victoria, and owner of the hereinafter-mentioned schooner ‘‘ Onward.” 
2. That the said schooner ‘‘Onward” is a British vessel of about 94 tons burden, 
builder’s measurement, and at the time of her seizure, as hereinafter set out, was, 
and now is, registered at the port of Victoria aforesaid. 
3. That about the 10th day of June, A. D. 1886, the said schooner ‘‘ Onward” sailed 
from the west coast of Vancouver Island, having previously cleared at the port of 
Victoria aforesaid, on and for a full-season hunting and fishing voyage in the North 
Pacific Ocean and Behring’s Sea. 
4. That on and for said voyage the crew of the ‘‘Onward” consisted of Daniel 
Monroe, of Victoria aforesaid, master; John Margotich, of the same place, mate; and 
twenty sailors and hunters; all of whom were on board the ‘‘Onward” at the time 
of her seizure hereinafter mentioned. 
5. That on the morning of the 2nd August, A. D. 1886, while in said Bebring’s Sea, in 
north latitude 54° 32’ and west longitude 167° 55’, and about 68 miles from Ounalaska 
Island, the nearest land, lawfully, as I verily believe, pursuing the objects of her 
said voyage, the ‘‘Onward” was seized by the United States steam-ship ‘‘ Corwin,” 
and taken in tow of said ‘‘Corwin” to Ounalaska, in the Territory of Alaska, of the 
United States of America, having then on board 400 seal-skins. 
6. That upon the said ‘‘ Corwin’s” arrival at Ounalaska aforesaid with the said 
“Onward,” the ‘‘Onward” was, by order of the United States authorities thereat, 
stripped of her sails and outfit, the skins on board taken out, her master, the said 
Daniel Monroe, and mate, the said John Margotich, placed under arrest, and her 
voyage completely broken up. 
7. That the said master and mate, Daniel Monroe and John Margotich, were by the 
said United States authorities taken to Sitka, in the said Territory of Alaska, there 
to be tried on a charge of having violated the laws of the United States respecting 
seal fishing in the waters of Alaska. On arrival at Sitka the said master and mate 
were bound over to appear for trial on said charge, and were on or about the Ist of 
the month of September following so tried, found guilty, and sentenced—the master, 
Daniel Monroe, to pay a fine of 500 dollars, the mate, John Margotich, to pay a fine 
of 300 dollars, and each to be imprisoned for the space of thirty days, which impris- 
onment they suffered. 
8. That hereto annexed, marked ‘“(A),” is a statement of the articles comprising 
the outfit of the ‘‘Onward” at the time of her departure on said voyage, and the 
value thereof, all of which were on board the “ Onward” at the time of her said 
seizure, excepting only what had heen consumed in the ordinary course and prosecu- 
tion of the voyage; also of the amount paid for insurance on said voyage, also the 
amount of wages paid the crew and hunters on said voyage, also the amount paid for 
fares and expenses of the master and mate in returning to Victoria from Sitka after 
their release, and also of the number and value of the seal-skins on board the 
“Onward” at the time of her seizure, and which were taken from the ‘‘ Onward” at 
Ounalaska by the United States’ authorities. 
9. That the prices charged for the various articles and groups of articles com- 
138 prising the outfit of the “Onward” on and for said voyage are the regular 
market prices of the said articles at Victoria aforesaid at the time of their 
purchase for use on said voyage. The price charged in said statement for the seal- 
