232 APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
[Inclosure 1 in No. 138.] 
Lord Stanley of Preston to Lord Knutsford. 
CASCAPEDIA RIVER, New Richmond, June 25, 1888. 
My Lorb: With reference to previous correspondence upon the subject, I have the 
honour to transmit to your Lordship a copy of an approved Minute of the Privy 
Council of Canada submitting a copy of a letter from the attorney of Captain J. D. 
Warren with reference to the circumstances under which the seized sealing-schooner 
“W. P. Sayward” was released under bond at Sitka. 
I have, &c. (Signed) STANLEY OF PRESTON. 
[Inclosure 2 in No. 138.] 
Report of a Committee of the Honourable the Privy Council, approved by his Haccllency 
the Governor-General in Council on the 27st June, 1888. 
On a Memorandum dated the 9th June, 1888, from the Minister of Marine and Fish- 
eries, submitting the accompanying letter from the attorney of Mr. J. D. Warren 
with reference to the circumstances under which thé seized sealing-schooner ‘ W. P. 
Sayward” was released under bond at Sitka, and recommending that the same be 
forwarded to the Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies for the information 
of Her Majesty’s Government. 
The Committee advise that your Excellency be moved to forward a copy hereof to 
the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies. 
All which is respectfully submitted. 
(Signed) JOHN J. MCGEE, 
Clerk, Privy Council. 
[Inclosure 3 in No. 138.] 
Mr. Belyea to Mr. Tilton. 
OTTAWA, ONTARIO, May 23, 1888. 
Dear Sir: I am in receipt of a letter from Captain J. D. Warren, of Victoria, 
British Columbia, under date the 15th instant, in which he informs me of the cir- 
cumstances under which the seized sealing-schooner ‘‘W. P. Sayward” was released 
under bond. He had gone to Sitka to secure, if possible, the release of all the 
schooners seized in 1887, viz.: the ‘‘ Grace,” ‘‘ Dolphin,” ‘‘ Anna Beck,” ‘‘W. P. Say- 
ward,” and ‘‘Ada.” ‘The bond on release was conditioned on prosecuting an appeal 
from the Alaska District Court to the Supreme Court of the United States. The 
formal motion thus became one ‘for leave to perfect an appeal,” and such motion 
for each of the vessels was made on the 14th April last before Judge Dawson at Sitka, 
and in every case refused, on the grounds that the time for allowing an appeal had 
expired. Captain Warren’s counsel then applied for a record of the order refusing 
leave to appeal. This was on Saturday. 
On Monday following, the 16th April, without any application therefor by the 
defendant or any one on his behalf, Judge Dawson offered to rescind the order of 
Saturday in the case of the ‘‘W. P. Sayward,” and release her to her owners. 
209 She was then lying at Puget’s Sound, under an order for sale on that day, the 
offer was accepted (contra ary, as Capt ain Warren says, to the expectations of 
the United States authorities at Sitka), and the order of the previous Saturday 4 
rescinded and leave granted to appeal. 
I am not informed as to the amount of the bond. 
The United States Marshal at Sitka has been ordered to take remaining schooners, 
viz., the ‘‘ Grace,” “Dolphin,” ‘Anna Beck,” and ‘‘Ada,” to Puget’s Sound for imme- 
diate sale. 
The schooners ‘‘' Thornton,” ‘‘ Onward,” and ‘‘Carolena,” seized in 1886 and left at 
Ounalaska, have been, as you are aware, offered to the owners as they now are. All 
three are high up on the beach and practically worthless. The United States 
anthorities sold everything in and on these vessels that would bring a dollar, and 
then attempted to contract the taking of the hulls to San Francisco to be there sold. 
Finding this would cost more than the damaged hulls would sell for, they otfered 
to give the vessels up to their owners, and had an order to that effect issued. 
Captain Warren says it is out of the question to go to Ounalaska for these vessels. 
I may add that the ‘‘ Sayward” is now in possession of her owners. 
Very faithfully, &e. 
(Signed) A. L. BELYEa, 
Attorney for J. D. Warren. 
