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proceed to Sitka, and to avoid further trouble I directed the schooner course to Vic- 
toria, and arrived here the Ist day of September at 7 o’clock P. M. 
And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true 
and by virtue of the Oaths Ordinance, 1889. 
(Signed) Joun REILLY. 
Declared at the city of Victoria, British Columbia, this 11th day of September, 1889. 
Before me, 
(Signed) Tuos. SHOTBOLT, 
Justice of the Peace. 
This is the statutory declaration of John Reilly, referred to as marked (X) in the 
declaration of Morris Moss, made before me the 19th November, 1889. 
(Signed) A. L. Betyra, Notary Public. 
No. 270. 
Colonial Office to Foreign Office.—( Received January 20.) 
DOWNING STREET, January 18, 1890. 
Str: I am directed by Lord Knutsford to transmit to you, to be laid 
before the Marquis of Salisbury, a copy of a despatch and its 
393 inclosures from the Governor-General of Canada, forwarding a 
claim for compensation from the owners of the schooner ‘ Ariel” 
for loss incurred by reason of its being interfered with by the United 
States Revenue cutter “Richard Rush” while engaged in a sealing 
voyage in Behring’s Sea. 
lam, Wc. (Signed) KR. H. MEADE, 
[Inclosure 1 in No. 270.] 
Lord Stanley of Preston to Lord Knutsford. 
GOVERNMENT HOUSE, Ottawa, December 31, 1889. 
My Lorp: i have the honour to transmit to your Lordship a copy of an approved 
Minute of the Privy Council submitting a declaration and formal statement of claim 
to compensation on behalf of the owners of the British schooner ‘‘ Ariel” for loss 
incurred by reason of the said vessel being interfered with by the United States 
Revenue cutter “Richard Rush” while engaged in a sealing voyage in Behring’s Sea. 
Ihave, &c. 
(Signed) STANLEY OF PRESTON. 
[Inclosure 2 in No. 270.] 
Report of a Committee of the Honourable the Privy Council, approved by his Excellency 
the Governor-General in Council, on December 28, 1889. 
On a Report, dated the 27th December, 1889, from the Minister of Marine and Fish- 
eries submitting the appended declaration and formal statement of claim to compen- 
sation on behalf of the owners of the British schooner ‘‘Ariel,” which vessel was, on 
the 30th day of July, 1889, while engaged in a sealing voyage in the Behring’s Sea 
(so called) boarded by three officers from the United States Revenue cutter ‘‘ Richard 
Rush.” The officer searched and examined the schooner ‘‘Ariel,” and questioned the 
inaster as to his voyage, crew, and catch; and also warned him against taking seals 
in the Behring’s Sea under threat of seizure of the vessel and the arrest of himself 
and mate. 
The Minister observes that the claim amounts to 9,498 dollars for loss incurred by 
reason of the said vessel being interfered with in the legitimate pursuit of her call- 
ing, and is advanced by Mr. Samuel W. Bucknam, of Victoria, British Columbia, 
managing owner and master of the said schooner ‘‘Ariel,” on behalf of himself and 
Messrs. John M. Tayler and Bela R. Lawrence, of the city of St. John, New Bruns- 
wick, as joint owners of the vessel in question, 
