184 APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
The Marshal has further been authorized to sell the schooner ‘‘W. P. Sayward” 
(British), and the ‘ Alpha,” “ Kate,” and “‘ Anna,” and ‘Sylvia Handy” (American), 
together with their boats, tackle, and furniture. By stipulation entered into last 
September between Mr. Delaney, acting for the United States, and Mr. Drake, Q.C., 
representing the Canadian Government, the remaining British schooners cannot. be 
sold until the expiration of three months from the 11th January next, and then only 
by the District Attorney giving the owners ninety days’ notice. 
Application granted: 
In the cases of the schooners ‘ Lily L.,” ‘‘W. P. Sayward,” “‘Annie,” “ Allie J. 
Alger,” “ Alpha,” “Kate and Anna,” and “ Sylvia Handy,” an application made by 
Attorney W. Clark, counsel for the owners, for leave to appeal to the Supreme 
Court of the United States, was granted. 
A motion presented by the same attorney for a stay of proceedings for three 
months in the cases of the ‘‘W.P.Sayward,” ‘ Alpha,” ‘‘Kate and Anna,” and 
“Sylvia Handy,” was refused by the Court, on the ground that the owners had 
ample time in which to prepare for their appeals, and it was entirely their own fault 
if they had not done so. 
. No. 92. 
Colonial Office to Foreign Office.—( Received February 13.) 
[Extract.] 
DOWNING STREET, February 13, 1888. 
With reference to previous correspondence respecting the claims of 
British subjects against the Government of the United States arising 
out of the seizure of or interference with certain sealing vessels in the 
Behring’s Sea, I am directed by Secretary Sir Henry Holland to trans- 
mit to you, to be laid before Lord Salisbury, copies of two further 
despatches from the Governor-General relating to further claims in the 
cases of the vessels ‘“‘ Thornton,” ‘ Carolina,” and “ Onward,” and of 
the vessels “‘ Dolphin,” “ W. P. Sayward,” “Anna Beck,” “ Grace,” and 
“A da.” 
[Inclosure 1 in No. 92.] 
The Marquis of Lansdowne to Sir H. Holland. 
GOVERNMENT House, Ottawa, January 20, 1888. 
Str: With reference to my despatches of the 2nd and 23rd December last, trausmit- 
ting revised statements of the claims of the owners of the ‘‘ Thornton,” ‘‘ Carolina,” 
and ‘‘Onward,” seized in Behring’s Sea during the season of 1886 by the United 
States Revenue cutter ‘‘ Corwin,” I have the honour to forward herewith, for presen- 
tation to the United States Government, a copy of an approved Report of a Com- 
mittee of the Privy Council, submitting a revised statement of the claims of the 
masters and mates of the above-mentioned vessels. 
My Minister of Marine and Fisheries considers that these revised claims are 
166 just and reasonable, and expresses the hope that prompt reparation may be 
made to those persons for the sufferings and losses they have sustained. 
Ihave, &e. 
(Signed) LANSDOWNE. 
[Inclosure 2 in No. 92.] 
Report of a Committee of the Honourable the Privy Council for Canada, approved by his 
Hacellency the Governor-General in Council, January 12, 1888. 
On a Report dated 5th January, 1888, from the Minister of Marine and Fisheries, 
stating, with reference to the Minute of Council of the 3rd January, 1887, transmit- 
ting claims of the owners, masters, and mates of the sealing-schooners ‘‘Thornton,” 
Carolina,” and ‘‘Onward,” which were seized in the Belring’s Sea in August, 1886, 
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