310 APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT: BRITAIN. 
having been designated as special Counsel on account of the illness and subsequent 
death of Colonel M. D. Ball, United States District Attorney, represented the Goy- 
ernment, and made what I ‘think will be generally conceded a most able and forci- 
ble, if not wholly unanswerable, argument. (See Appendix C.) 
APPENDIX NO. 3. 
Report of the Cruize of the Revenue Marine Steamer ‘‘ Corwin” in the Year 1885. 
{Ex. Doc. No. 153, 49th Congress, 1st Session, pp. 17 and 18.] 
During the year quite a number of vessels have raided Alaskan waters for 
seals and other fur-be aring animals. Among the number the following, with their 
catches, are noted: 
*‘Look-out,” 1,100 seals; ‘“‘Mary Ellen,” 2,309 seals; ‘‘Favourite,” 2,065 seals; 
“San Diego,” 1,725 seals; ‘‘Sierra,” 1,312 seals; “Vanderbilt, ” about 1,000 seals; 
“Henrietta,” about 1,200 seals; “ Alexander, ” 660 seals and 107 sea- otters; “ Otter,” 
a few seals and about fifty or sixty sea- -otters; with the ‘‘ Adele” and other vessels 
yet to hear from. 
280 “Thus it will be seen that upwards of ten vessels were engaged in unlawful 
sealing in Alaskan waters during the present year, and I am convinced that 
next year the number will be considerably increased. 
“Rumours are current here that the American Consul at Victoria has informed 
different people that they are not prohibited by law from sealing in Alaskan or other 
waters, provided they keep more than 3 leagues from the shore. Encouraged by this 
decision and the success of the marauding sealers during the present year, parties in 
Victoria are fitting out vessels (two or three being steam- schooners) to engage in the 
business next year. Not only are seals killed out of season, but they are shot i in the 
water, and young and old, male and female, killed indiscriminately, all in direct 
violation of Sections 1960 and 1961, Revised Statutes, and all tending, if allowed to 
continue, to drive the seals from their regular haunts.” 
APPENDIX NO. 4. 
Wardman’s “Trip to Alaska,” pp. 116 and 117. 
[Published at Boston and New York in 1884.] 
Sea Otter Island, lying about 5 miles southwardly from St. Paul’s, is another land- 
ing-place for the fur-seal, but only to a limited extent. Owing to the fact that it is 
not permanently inhabited, some marauders were in the habit of landing on the 
opposite side, where they could not be seen from St. Paul’s, and killing whatever 
seal they could find, without regard to sex, age, or condition. The Company reported 
these facts to the Secretary of the Treasury, who decided that the intention of the 
Act under which the lease was authorized appeared to be to give all the islands of 
the group to the lessees for the regulation of the traffic and preservation of the fur- 
seal. Then, as the Company could not defend Sea Otter Island, the Government was 
asked to do. so, and now the practice is to leave a Revenue marine guard there dur- 
ing the sealing season. 
APPENDIX NO. 5. 
EXTRACT FROM HousrE EXECUTIVE DOCUMENTS, 2ND SESSION, 48TH CONGRESS, 
1884-85, VOL. 29. 
Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury relative to the Protection of Seal and Enforce- 
ment of Laws in Alaska, and recommending an appropriation of 25,000 dollars for the 
Revenue Marine Service in that Territory, February 24, 1885. 
[Ex. Doc. No. 252, 48th Congress, 2nd Session.] 
REVENUE MARINE SERVICE.—In this connection I beg to call the attention oi 
Congress to the importance of the work performed in Alaska by the Revenue cutters. 
The seal fisheries yield annually to the Government a revenue of about 300,000 dol- 
lars. The islands on which the seals are taken are protected from incursions of 
marauding vessels alone through the cruizing of the Revenue cutters. 
