424 APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
[Inclosure 6 in No. 269.] 
Lord Stanley of Preston to Lord Knutsford. 
GOVERNMENT Hovuss, Ottawa, December 17, 1889. 
My Lorp: With reference to my despatch of the 26th August last, relating to the 
seizure in Behring’s Sea of the British schooner ‘ Black Diamond,” I have the honour 
to forward herewith a copy of an approved Minute of the Privy Council, submitting 
the claim to compensation of the owner of the vessel for loss sustained by re#son of 
her seizure by the United States authorities. 
I have, &c. 
(Signed) STANLEY OF PRESTON. 
[Inclosure 7 in No. 269.] 
Report of a Committee of the Honourable the Privy Council, approved by his Excellency 
the Governor-General in Council on December 2, 1889. 
On a Report dated the 28th November, 1889, from the Minister of Marine and 
Fisheries submitting, in connection with the seizure in the Behring’s Sea of 
388 the British schooner ‘‘ Black Diamond,” the circumstances attending which 
were detailed in the Minute of Council approved by your Excellency on the 
22nd August, 1889, formal statements and claim by the owner to compensation for 
loss incurred by reason of the seizure of said vessel, and the forcible removal to the 
United States Revenue cutter ‘‘ Richard Rush” of seventy-six sealskins, as well as 
for the value of the estimated catch for the balance of the season had the vessel not 
been interfered with in the legitimate pursuit of her calling, which claim, with 
incidental expenses, aggregates the sum of 17,185 dollars. 
The Minister recommends that this claim be forwarded through the proper channel 
to her Majesty’s Government for transmission to the Government of the United States. 
The Committee advise that your Excellency be moved to forward copies 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 8 in No. 269.] 
Declaration of Morris Moss. 
CANADA, Province of British Columbia, City of Victoria. 
I, Morris Moss, of the city of Victoria, in the Province of British Columbia, Domin- 
ion of Canada, fur dealer and ship-owner, do solemnly and sincerely declare as 
follows: 
1. Lam a British subject by birth, and the duly registered owner of the schooner 
“Black Diamond,” of the port of Victoria, aforesaid. 
2. On the 12th day of February, 1889, the said schooner was cleared at the Custom- 
house at said city of Victoria for a fishing and hunting voyage to the North Pacitic 
Ocean and Behring’s Sea. 
3. On the 3rd day of August, 1889, the said ‘‘ Black Diamond” returned to Vic- 
toria aforesaid, and hereto annexed, marked (X), is the statutory declaration of Alex- 
ander Gault, the mate of the said schooner on said voyage, of the cause and manner 
of the ‘‘ Black Diamond’s” return to Victoria from such voyage, which said statement 
I verily believe is true. 
4. The value of the sealskins taken from the ‘‘ Black Diamond” as set out in said 
Alexander Gault’s statement was, on or about the 1st day of October (when in due 
course the vessel would have delivered her cargo of skins at Victoria aforesaid), 8 
dollars per skin. The salt so taken as aforesaid was worth 5 dollars. The Indian 
spears 4 dollars each, and the said rifle was worth 25 dollars. 
5. From the actual catch of seals made in said sea during said season by other 
sailing vessels, I verily believe that had the said ‘‘ Black Diamond” not been seized 
and her hunting voyage broken up as set out in said statement of Alexander Gault, 
the hunters on said schooner would have captured at least 2,100 sealskins in said Beh- 
ring’s Sea during the season of 1889. 
6. I, for myself and the crew and hunters of the said ‘‘ Black Diamond,” claimed 
damages against the Government of the United States of America for the seizure of 
