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16. That hereto annexed, marked ‘‘(D),” is a statement of the amounts claimed 
by the owner of the steam-schooner ‘‘Grace” by reason of her seizure and detention 
during the season of 1887, and of the loss arising from the detention of the said 
“ Grace” after the close of said season. 
17. The estimated catch by the ‘‘Grace” for the season of 1887, namely, 4,200 seal- 
skins, is based upon a reasonable and probable catch per boat or canoe for that 
season. Experience in sealing has proved that the greater number of boats or canoes, 
or both, carried by any one sealing-vessel, the smaller the average per canoe or boat, 
and it is in view of this that the average per canoe for the ‘‘ Grace” is put at 300 
per canoe, while the average for the steam-schooner ‘‘ Anna Beck” for the same season 
is placed at 350, the latter carrying eight canoes and one boat, while the former 
carried twelve canoes and two boats. The said average catch of 300 seal-skins per 
canoe and boat for the ‘‘Grace” is a fair average catch, and I verily believe that, 
had the ‘‘Grace” not been seized as aforesaid, her catch for the season of 1887 would 
have exceeded the said number of 4,200 seal-skins. 
18. That during the months of October, November, and December, A. p. 1887, and 
January, A. D. 1888, had the ‘‘Grace” been in possession of her owner, she would 
have been engaged in the coasting trade between the various ports of British Colum- 
bia. The estimated loss per month of 500 dollars for each of said months is a fair 
and reasonable estimate of the earnings of the said steam-schooner ‘‘Grace” for the 
said months of October, November, December, and January, after deducting the 
cost of wages and ordinary running expenses, and I verily believe that the ‘‘ Grace ” 
would have earned the said sum per month had she been in her owner’s possession. 
19. That in order to engage in the hunting and fishing of next year, namely, A. D. 
1888, and in view of the tact that the ‘‘Grace” will require the usual overhauling 
and fitting out before being sent on so long a voyage, the latest date at which it 
will be possible to begin necessary repairs and refitting, and have them completed 
in order to leave at or about the usual date on said hunting and fishing voyage, will 
be on or about the Ist day of February, A. D. 1888. If the ‘‘Grace” be not delivered 
to the owners at Victoria on or before that date, it will be too late to repair and 
refit her for a full season hunting and fishing voyage, which begins on or about the 
Ist March of each year. During the summer months, for a vessel of the class and 
equipment of the ‘‘Grace,” there is very little to do in and about the coasting trade, 
and the season in the event of the ‘‘Grace” not being in the possession of her owner 
on or before the 1st February, A. D. 1888, would be practically lost to her owner. 
The claim for lossif detained beyond the 1st February aforesaid is a fair and reason- 
able estimate of the loss which will in such cases be sustained by the owner of the 
““Grace.” 
20. That hereto annexed, marked ‘‘(E),” is an estimate of the principal sums on 
which interest at 7 per cent. per annum is claimed, and the time for which it is so 
claimed. On the Ist day of October, A. D. 1887, when the catch of the “Grace” 
would have been, in the ordinary course of events, realized on, the minimum rate 
of interest on money for commercial purposes at the said city of Victoria was, has 
since continued to be, and now is, 7 per cent. per annum. 
21. That hereto annexed, marked ‘‘(F),” 1s a statement of the articles, and groups 
of articles, and the value thereof, from Exhibit (A), which would have been wholly, 
or almost wholly, consumed in the course and prosecution of the said voyage, had 
not the ‘‘Grace” been seized and detained as aforesaid. 
And I, James Douglas Warren aforesaid, make this solemn declaration, conscien- 
tiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the ‘“‘Act respecting Extra- 
judicial Oaths.” 
: (Signed) J. D. WARREN. 
Declared and affirmed before me at the city of Ottawa, in the County of Carleton, 
in the Province of Ontario, this 9th day of December, A. D. 1887, and certified under 
my official seal. 
(Signed) D. O’CONNOR, 
Notary Public for Ontario. 
