APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN, 371 
APPENDIX (B). 
Extract of a Letter from Mr. A. L. Belyea to the Deputy Minister of Fisheries, May 23, 1888. 
‘The [the owner] 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 Warner’s Counsel then applied for a record of the order refusing leave to 
appeal. This was on Saturday. On Monday following, April the 16th, 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 the owners. She was then lying at Puget Sound, under an order for sale on 
that day. The offer was accepted (contrary, as Captain Warren says, to the expecta- 
tion of the United States authorities at Sitka), and the order of the previous Satur- 
day rescinded, and leave granted to appeal. I am not informed as to the amount of 
the bond. 
APPENDIX (B 2). 
[This is identic with Appendix (A) from Mr. Atkins’ letter of August 4, 1888, to 
the end. ] 
No. 239. 
Mr. Edwardes to the Marquis of Salisbury.—(Received October 28.) 
WASHINGTON, October 9, 1889. 
My Lorp: With reference to the question of appeals filed in the 
Supreme Court by owners of sealers in Behring’s Sea, of which up to 
now it has been believed that there were none but the case of the 
“6W, P. Sayward’ v. the United States,” [ have the honour to inclose 
a copy of a Memorandum which I have received from Mr. Calderon 
Carlisle on the subject of an appeal, viz., “The schooner ‘Sylvia 
Handy’ v. the United States,” which, it appears, had escaped the 
notice of even the Clerk of the Court, in spite of the many applications 
which have of late, under the direction of Her Majesty’s Legation, 
been made. 
I shall not fail to secure copies of the record, should it be printed. 
I have, We. 
(Signed) H. G. EDWARDES. 
337 {Inclosure in No. 239.] 
Memorandum as to the Case of the Schooner “ Sylvia Handy” v. the United States.— 
(October Term, 1889, No. 683.) 
The Clerk of the Supreme Court telephoned me yesterday that he had discovered 
the above appear on the docket of the Court, of which he knew nothing on my last 
visit there. The record, which I have examined, is practically the same as that in 
the case of the ‘“‘Sayward.” It seems to have been filed on the 16th June, 1888. 
Mr. McKenna, Member of Congress from California, entered his appearance to secure 
the filing of the record, but the real Counsel in the case is Mr, Howell L. Powell, 
207, Sansome Street, San Francisco, California, 
