186 APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
The Minister believes that these claims are just and reasonable, and recommends 
that they be forwarded to Her Majesty’s Government for presentation to the Gov- 
ernment of the United States, and he expresses the hope that prompt reparation 
may be made to these persons for the sufferings and losses they have sustained. 
The Committee advise that your Excellency be moved to forward the claims 
herein mentioned to the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, 
for transmission to the United States Government. 
All which is respectfully submitted for your Excellency’s approval. 
(Signed) JOUN J. MCGEE, 
Clerk, Privy Council. 
Declaration. 
City or OTTAwa, 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 I was master of the British steam-schooner *‘ Dolphin,” of Victoria afore- 
said, on the 12th day of July, A. D. 1887, the said schooner on that day being in that 
part of the North Pacific Ocean called Behring’s Sea, lawfully engaged in seal- 
fishing. 
2. That onthe said 12th day of July, A. D. 1887, the said steam-schooner ‘‘ Dolphin ” 
was seized by the United States steamship ‘‘ Richard Rush,” and I was made a pris- 
oner and taken on board of the said steam-ship ‘‘ Richard Rush” with the ship’s 
papers of the said “Dolphin.” 
3. That shortly afterwards on the same day I was sent back on board the “ Dol- 
phin,” which, in command of an officer from the said “ Richard Rush,” was taken to 
Ounalaska Island, in the United States territory of Alaska, from which place a few 
days after I was sent—with the said steam-schooner ‘‘ Dolphin,” in command of an 
officer from the said ‘‘ Richard Rush”—to Sitka, in the said territory of Alaska. On 
arrival at Sitka I was handed over to the United States Marshal of the territory of 
Alaska, in whose custody I remained from the Ist day of August, A. D. 1887, until 
the 16th day of August instant, when I was taken before the United States Dis- 
trict Court at Sitka, formally charged with having violated the laws of the United 
States relating to seal fishing in the waters of Alaska, and upon my own recognizance 
of 500 dollars released to appear for trial on said charge on the 22nd day of August 
then instant, and to appear from day to day thereafter until I should be so tried. I 
did so appear on the days so ordered until the 9th day of September following, when, 
without so being tried on said charge, or any other charge or offence whatever, I was 
unconditionally released by order of the Judge of said Court, and for the said illegal 
arrest and imprisonment I claimed as damages the sum of 2,000 dollars. 
4. That at the same time I was arrested, as aforesaid, one John Reilly was mate 
of the said steain-schooner ‘‘: olphin,” and Lam the duly authorized agent in this 
behalf of the said John Reilly, mate of the said ‘‘ Dolphin.” 
5. The said John Reilly was arrested, taken to Ounalaska, thence to Sitka, 
168 delivered into the custody of the United States Marshal of Alaska, arraigned, 
allowed bail, and finally released at the same place, time, and manner in 
which I was, asset out in the declaration, and the said John Reilly, by me, his duly 
authorized agent in this behalf, claims 1,000 dollars as damages for said illegal arrest 
and detention, 
6. That after arrival of said steam-schooner “ Dolphin” at Ounalaska aforesaid, 
after her seizure, I agreed with the Commander of the said ‘ Richard Rush” to 
navigate the said ‘‘ Dolphin” from Ounalaska to Sitka, for which purpose I engaged 
the crew on board the ‘‘ Dolphin” after seizure, agreeing to pay them their ordinary 
wages therefor. I did so navigate the said ‘‘ Dolphin” from Ounalaska to Sitka 
with the said crew, but I have never been paid therefor, nor have the said crew been 
paid the wages promised and agreed to be paid them therefor. The said trip froin 
Ounalaska to Sitka took about fifteen days, and the amount due me for said services 
for myself and crew amount to 160 dollars, which said sum I hereby claim as justly 
due ine for such services. 
7. That at the time I agreed with the said Commander of the ‘‘ Richard Rush” to 
navigate the said ‘‘ Dolphin” from Ounalaska to Sitka I also agreed to furnish 
officers and crews to navigate the screw-schooners ‘‘ Grace” and “ Anna Beck” from 
Ounalaska to Sitka. I did so provide for their navigation from and to said places, 
and agreed to pay their said officers and crew ordinary wages for their services in 
so doing. The ‘‘Grace” and *‘ Anna Beck” were so taken {rom Ounalaska to Sitka; 
the voyage took about fifteen days, and the amount due to master and mates and 
crew therefore 160 dollars for each of the said vessels ‘‘ Grace” and ‘‘ Anna Beck,” 
