Bos 
APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 181 
voyage, also of the number and value of the seai-skins taken from the ‘‘Ada” when 
seized, and also of the expenses of the master and mate of the ‘‘Ada” in returning 
from Victoria to Sitka. 
8. The value placed on the “Ada” by her said owner at the time of seizure, namely, 
7,000 dollars, is a fair and reasonable value for the ‘‘Ada” when seized. Sheis asub- 
stantially built craft in every respect, and is one of the best sailing-vessels engaged 
in the sealing trade. The value of the ‘‘Ada’s” outfit given in said Exhibit, namely, 
2,500 dollars, is less than that of any of the other seized vessels from the fact that the 
“Ada’s” hunters were mostly Indians, whose canoes and outfits were returned after 
such seizure, and said outfit not including wages. 
9. The price charged for the seal-skins taken from the ‘‘Ada” when seized is the 
current market price of seal-skins at Victoria at the close of the sealing season of 
1887. 
10. That the Exhibit (C), hereto annexed, shows the legal and personal expenses 
incurred by the owner of the “Ada” by reason of the seizure and detention of the 
said schooner ‘‘Ada,” and the arrest and detention of the master and mate, and the 
claims arising therefrom. : 
11. That Exhibit (D), hereto annexed, is a statement of the estimated loss and 
damage to the owner of said schooner ‘‘ Ada” by reason of her said seizure and deten- 
tion during 1887, and the loss for 1888 if she is detained beyond the Ist February, 
1888. 
12. The claim of 1,000seal-skins as the probable additional catch of the ‘‘Ada” for 
the balance of the sealing season, had she not been seized, is a fair and reasonable 
estimate, and with her actual catch, making a total for the season of 2,876, which, 
as she carried two boats, seven canoes, and twenty hunters, cannot be considered an 
excessive estimate. 
15. During the months of October, November, December, and January following 
the close of the sealing season, or the greater part thereof, had the “Ada” been in 
her owner's possession, she would have been engaged in the general coasting and 
freighting trade on and about the coasts of British Columbia, and the fair and reason- 
able earnings of the “Ada” during said months, after deducting from the gross 
amount thereof the cost of wages and running expenses, would be at least 500 dol- 
lars per month. 
‘Id. In case the ‘‘Ada” be not delivered into her owner’s possession at Victoria on or 
before the 1st day of February, A.D. 1888, it will be impossible to give her the neces- 
sary repairs and refitting in time to start out at the usual date, about the 1st March, 
on a full season’s hunting and fishing. As during the summer months there is little 
coasting and freighting trade in which the ‘‘Ada” could be employed, her owner 
would, in the event of her not being ready in time for a regular hunting and fishing 
voyage, practically lose the greater part of the season, and the earnings of the ‘‘Ada” 
for such full season, after deducting therefrom the cost of outfit, wages, and other 
running expenses, would be at least, under circumstances, 6,000 dolars. 
15. That hereto annexed, marked ‘‘(K),” is a statement of the principal sums on 
which interest at 7 per cent. is claimed, and the time from and to which it is so 
claimed. At the close of the sealing season of 1887, when the catch of the ‘‘Ada, ” 
in the ordinary course of events, would have been realized on, the minimum rate of 
interest on money for commercial purposes was, has continued to be, and now is, 7 
per cent. per annum. 
And I, James Douglas Warren aforesaid, make this solemn declaration, con- 
163 scientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the “Act respeci- 
ing Extra-judicial Oaths.” 
(Signed) J. D. WARREN. 
Declared and affirmed before me at the City of Ottawa, in the County of Carleton 
and 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. 
Exarpir (A). 
Value of the schooner “Ada” at the time of her seizure by the United 
States steam-ship ‘‘ Bear,” the 25th August, 1887 .........--........---- $7, 000. 00 
Bianco “HAdas outiitat the same time. isis 2s. s lec. ck eel eiee ccd: 2, 500. 09 
Value of seal-skins on board at seizure, viz., 1,876 skins, at 5 dol. 50 ¢. per 
SURIN, 42-55 uk Se rare a Le aga OS Aes ren ett Sane aeie per ER eR 10, 518. 00 
Passage and expenses of master of ‘‘Ada” from Sitka to Victoria......... 100. 00 
Total, Exhibit (A) ..2..... Sie sae ato es Seats tee. LOOTSEO0 
(Signed) J. D, WARREN. 
(Signed) D. O'CONNOR, Notary Public. 
