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Minnte of Council approved by your Excellency on the 18th September, 1889,” formal 
statements and claims by the owners 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 333 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 17,167 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. 
391 [Inclosure 12 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 fol- 
lows: 
1. Tam a British subject by birth, and the duly registered owner of the schooner 
“Tily” of the port of Victoria »foresaid. 
2. On the 20th day of May, A. D. 1829, the said schooner ‘‘Lily” cleared at the 
Customs-house, Victoria aforesaid, for a fishing and hunting voyage in the North 
Pacific Ocean and Behring’s Sea. 
3. On the Ist day of September, A. D. 1889, the said schooner “‘ Lily ” returned to 
the said port of Victoria, and hereto annexed, marked (X), is the statutory declara- 
tion of John Reilly, the master of the said schooner ‘‘ Lily” on said voyage, setting 
forth the cause and manner of the return to Victoria of said schooner from such 
voyage, which said statement I verily believe to be true. 
4. The value of the sealskins taken from the said ‘‘ Lily,” as set out in said John 
Reilly’s statement, was, on or about the 1st day of October (when in due course the 
said 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, and the Indian spears 
4 dollars each. , 
5. From the actual catch of seals made in said sea during said season by other 
vessels, I verily believe that had the said ‘‘ Lily” not been seized, and her hunting 
voyage broken up, as set out in said statement of John Reilly, the said hunters on 
said schooner “ Lily” would have captured at least 2,100 sealskins in Behring’s Sea 
during the season of 1889. 
6. Lfor myself and the crew and hunters of the said *‘ Lily” claim damages against 
the Government of the United States of America for the seizure of the said ‘ Lily,” 
and for the taking and detention of said 333 sealskins, and for 1,767 sealskins, the 
balance of the estimated catch of 2,100 in Behring’s Sea for the full season of 1889; 
also for the salt and Indian spears and ship’s papers taken as aforesaid, and for legal 
and other expenses incidental to, and arising out of, such seizure, and the prepara- 
tion and submissien of this claim therefor and interest thereon, at the rate of 7 per 
cent. per annum until paid. 
7. Hereto annexed, marked (A), isa statement in detail of such claim for damages. 
And I, Morris Moss, make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the 
same to be true, and by virtue of the Act respecting Voluntary and Extra-Judicial 
Oaths. 
(Signed) Morris Moss. 
Declared by the said Morris Moss at the city of Victoria, the 19th day of Novem- 
ber, A. D. 1889. 
Before me, 
(Signed) A. L. BELYEA, 
Notary Public by Royal Authority in and for the Province of British Columbia. 
