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skins on board the ‘‘Onward” when seized, namely, 7 dollars per skin, was the 
market price per skin at Victoria aforesaid at the close of the sealing season of 1886, 
when the catch of the ‘‘Onward,” had not such seizure taken place, would have 
been placed on the market. 
10. That the value of the schooner ‘‘Onward,” as given in Exhibit (A), namely, 
4,000 dollars, is a fair and reasonable value for the said schooner at the time of her 
seizure; she was then, and had always been, kept in first class order and condition, 
and was always a staunch, seaworthy vessel, and for the said voyage had been refitted 
with new sails and sailing gear. 
11. That hereto annexed, marked “B,” is a statement of the catch of thirteen 
sealing-vessels, in and about Behring’s Sea, during the season of 1886; the said 
statement is compiled from the Report of the Inspector of Fisheries for the Province 
of British Columbia for the year 1886, as contained in the Report of the Department 
of Fisheries for Canada for that year at pp. 248 and 249, and from personal knowl- 
edge of the facts therein set out, I verily believe the said statement to be substan- 
tially true and correct. The steam-schooner ‘‘Thornton,” the schooners “Carolena” 
and ‘* Onward,” meaning the ‘‘Onward” herein mentioned, were seized on the 1st 
and 2nd August, 1886, in Behring’s Sea, at the beginning of "the best sealing period; 
and the schooners “Mary Taylor,” ‘‘Monntain Chief, 2 “Rustler,” and “Kate” were 
not in Behring’s Sea during the season of 1886, so in estimating the average catch 
per vessel 1n Behring’s Sea for 1886, the catch of the above-named seven vessels is 
not included in Exhibit (B); all of the thirteen vessels named in Exhibit (B), with 
only one or two exceptions, left Behring’s Sea long before the end of the sealing sea- 
son of 1886, because of the seizures which had been made by the United States 
steam-ship ‘‘Corwin,” fearing to remain lest they also should be seized; by reason 
of such departure from the said sea, or the best sealing grounds therein, before the 
close of the season, I verily believe that the catch per vessel, as found in Exhibit 
(B), namely, 2,381 seal-skins, is fully 500 less than it would have been had the said 
vessels remained the full season in said sea. 
12. That hereto annexed, marked ‘‘(C),” isastatement of the legalexpenses incurred 
at Sitka and elsewhere by reason of the said seizure of the ‘‘ Onward,” the arrest 
and imprisonment of the said master and mate, and the claims arising therefrom, 
and also of the personal expenses of the said owner and said agent in the same 
connection. 
13. That the Exhibit (D), hereto annexed, is a statement of the estimated loss and 
damage resulting to the owner of the ‘‘Onward” by reason of her seizure and deten- 
_ tion in A. D. 1886, A. D. 1887, and A. D.1888. The estimated loss for the year 1886 is 
based upon the average catch per vessel, as found in Exhibit (B), less the number of 
skins on board the ‘‘ Onward” when seized, the balance being valued at 7 dollars per 
skin, the price per skin at Victoria at the close of the season 1886. The claim for a. D. 
1887 and A. D. 1888 is based upon the same average catch as for A. D. 1886, valued at 
5 dol. 50 c. per skin, which was the market value per skin at Victoria aforesaid at the 
close of the season 1887, after deducting therefrom the cost of outfit and wages of 
erew and hunters for each year, based on the ‘‘Onward’s” said voyage of A. D. 1886. 
The said claim of 5,000 dollars for each of said years A. D. 1887 and A. D. 1888 is a fair 
and reasonable estimate of the earnings of the ‘‘Onward” in hunting and fishing 
for the said years. 
14. That Exhibit (EF), hereto annexed, is astatement of the principal sums on which 
interest at 7 per cent. per annum is claimed, and the time for which said interest is 
so claimed. At the time when the catch of the ‘‘ Onward” for 1886 would have, in 
the ordinary course of events, been realized on, namely, on or about the 1st October 
in said year, the minimum rate of interest on money ‘for commercial purposes was, 
has since continued to be, and now is, 7 per cent. per annum. 
15. That hereto annexed, marked ‘“(I*),” is a statement of the articles, and the 
value thereof, as given in Exhibit (A) of the ‘‘ Onward’s” outfit on said voyage of 
1886, including insurance premiums and wages, which would necessarily be wholly, 
or almost wholly, consumed in the course of a full season’s hunting and fishing, 
such as contemplated by the ‘‘ Onward” in 1886. 
16. That on the 13th day of July last past I was at Ounalaska aforesaid, and was 
then on board of the said schooner ‘‘ Onward.” She was then lying side-to on a 
gravel beach, in the harbour at Ounalaska, partially embedded in the gravel, and 
generally in a very bad condition. Her standing rigging was much weather-beaten, 
also her deck and side-seams were in a very bad state, the long exposure and severe 
frosts of the previous winter having broken out the pitch, and, judging from their 
appearance, they were very leaky. From what I then saw of the condition of 
139 the ‘‘Onward,” I verily believe that she could not be floated and putin a fit state 
for sea without extensive repairs, which at Ounalaska, where there is neither 
the requisite workmen nor material, would involve very large expenditure, and that 
to float the said ‘‘Onward,” take her to Victoria aforesaid, the nearest port where 
the requisite facilities exist, and where she could be repaired and refitted at least 
cost, and there repair and refit her, would cost at least 4,500 dollars. 
