APPENDIX TO GASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 175 
156 [Inclosure 10 in No. 90.] 
Declaration of James Douglas Warren. 
Ciry or Otrawa, Province of Ontario, Dominion of Canada. 
I, James Douglas Warren, of the city of Victoria, in the Province of British Colum- 
bia of the Dominion of Canada, master mariner and ship-owner, do solemnly and 
sincerely declare as follows: 
1. That Iam the duly authorized agent of Thomas H. Cooper, of the city of San 
Francisco, in the State of California, one of the United States of America, the owner 
of the hereinafter-mentioned steam-schooner ‘‘ Dolphin,” by power of attorney bear- 
ing date the 4th day of November, A. D. 1886. 
2. That the said Thomas H. Cooper is, as I am informed and do verily believe, a 
British subject by birth, and never having renounced his allegiance to the Sover- 
eign of Great Britain. 
3. That the said steam-schooner ‘‘Dolphin” is a British vessel, built at Victoria 
aforesaid in A. D. 1882, and duly registered at the port of Victoria aforesaid. By 
builder’s measurement the ‘‘Dolphin” is 174 tons burden. She ‘was substantially 
built, coppered to above light water-line, and copper-fastened when built, and had 
not up to the time of her seizure hereinafter set out sustained any damage or strain 
beyond ordinary wear and tear. Her steam-power consists of one large steel boiler, 
put in during the winter of 1884-85, compound engines and all the necessary fittings, 
including inside surface condenser, and also steam fire-pumps and hose, and a double 
steam cargo winch. 
4. The said steam-schooner ‘‘ Dolphin” was duly licensed as a passenger-boat, and 
had all the appliances and conveniences required by Canadian laws for such vessels. 
5. That as such agent as aforesaid, Iam the sole manager of the steam-schooner 
“Dolphin” for the said Thomas H. Cooper. 
6. That on the 16th day of May, A. D. 1887, having previously cleared at the port 
of Victoria for that purpose, the said ‘‘ Dolphin” sailed from Victoria on and for a 
full season’s hunting and fishing voyage in the North Pacific Ocean and Behring’s 
Sea, and on and for said voyage the crew of the ‘‘ Dolphin” consisted of myself as 
master, John Reilly mate, and crew of thirty-one sailors and hunters. 
7. That on the 6th day of July, A. D. 1887, the ‘‘Dolphin” entered the said Beh- 
ring Sea through the Amoughta Pass, commonly called the ‘172nd Pass,” having then 
on board 590 seals, taken while on the voyage up through the North Pacific Ocean 
from Victoria aforesaid to Amoughta Pass aforesaid. 
8. On the 9th day of said month of July the ‘‘ Dolphin” began catching seals in 
Behring’s Sea, then being in north latitude 54° 18’, and west longitude 168° 40’, and 
from said 9th day of July until the afternoon of the 12th day of said month of July 
the ‘‘Dolphin” caught twenty-eight seals in said Behring’s Sea. 
9. That on the afternoon of the 12th day of July, A. D. 1887, the United States 
steam-ship ‘‘ Richard Rush” seized the said steam-schooner ‘‘Dolphin” while law- 
fully pursuing the objects of said voyage, and then being in north latitude 54° 38’, 
and west longitude 167° 3’, and about 42 miles from Ounalaska Island, the nearest 
land, for an alleged violation of the laws of the United States respecting seal-fish- 
ing in the waters of Alaska. That when said seizure was made the “Dolphin” was 
lawfully persuing the objects of said voyage. When the Commander of the said 
“Richard Rush” made the said seizure he told me that his instructions were to seize 
everything he found in the sea, or words to that effect. 
10. After seizure all the firearms and ammunition on board the “‘ Dolphin” were 
taken on board the said ‘‘ Richard Rush,” a Lieutenant from the latter placed on 
board the ‘‘ Dolphin,” under whose command the ‘‘ Dolphin” was taken to the II]loo- 
look Harbour at Ounalaska Island, in the United States Territory of Alaska. After 
arrival there the 618 seal-skins on board the “‘ Dolphin” were, by order of the United 
States authorities thereat, taken out and stored. About 2,600 lbs. of salt were also 
taken out, for resalting the seal-skins. On the 20th day of said July the ‘‘ Dolphin” 
sailed from Illoolook Harbour on Ounalaska Island for Sitka, in the said Territory 
of Alaska, where she arrived on the 31st day of said month of July. 
11. On arrival at Sitka the ‘‘Dolphin” was taken charge of by United States 
Marshal Atkins, of the said Territory of Alaska. As master of the ‘‘Dolphin” I, 
with the mate, the said John Reilly, were, on the 16th day of August then next fol- 
lowing, taken before a Judge and bound over to appear for trial on the 22nd day of 
August, A, D. 1887, on a charge then read over to us of having violated the 
157 = law of the United States of America respecting seal-fishing in the waters of 
Alaska. We so appeared on the 22nd day of August for trial, and from day to 
day thertatter, for our trial on said charge. We so appeared thereafter for trial day 
after day until the 9th day of September following, when, without any trial on said 
charge or any other charge whatever, we were unconditionally released. From our 
arrival at Sitka an the 31st July until the 16th day of August following, when we 
