APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 437 
13th August last, while engaged ona sealing voyage, ordered from the Bebring’s 
Sea, under threat of seizure, by an officer of the United States Revenue-cutter 
“Richard Rush.” 
Your Lordship will observe that the claim amounts to the sum of 11,210 dollars 
for loss incurred by reason of the said vessel being interfered with in the legitimate 
pursuit of her calling, and is advanced by Mr. Charles Spring, of Victoria, British 
Columbia, as sole owner of the vesscl in question. 
Ihave, &c. 
(Signed) STANLEY OF PRESTON. 
[Inclosure 2 in No. 275.] 
Report of a Committee of the Honourable the Privy Council, approved by his Bacellency 
the Governor-General in Council on the 28th December, 1889. 
On a Report, dated 27th December, 1889, from the Minister of Marine and Fish- 
eries, submitting the appended declarations and formal statement of the claim to 
compensation on behalf of the owner of the British schooner ‘‘ Kate,” which vessel 
was on the 13th August, 18389, while engaged on a sealing voyage, ordered from the 
Behring’s Sea (so-called) under threat of seizure by an officer of the United States 
Revenue-cutter “ Richard Rush.” 
The Minister observes that the claim amounts to 11,210 dollars for loss incurred by 
reason of the said vessel being interfered with in the legitimate pursuit of her 
calling, and is advanced by Mr. Charles Spring, of Victoria, British Columbia, as 
sole owner of the schooner in question. 
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 a copy of this 
Minute, together with the papers mentioned herein, to the Right Honourable the 
Secretary of State for the Colonies. 
All of which is respectfully submitted for your Excellency’s approval. 
(Signed) JOHN J. McGEE, 
Clerk, Privy Council. 
401 APPENDIX. 
CANADA, Province of British Columbia, Ciiy of Victoria. 
I, Neils Moss, of the city of Victoria, province of British Columbia, Dominion of 
Canada, master mariner, do solemnly and sincerely declare as follows: 
1. The hereinafter mentioned schooner ‘‘ Kate ” is a British vessel, registered at the 
port of Victoria, British Columbia, and owned by Charles Spring, of the same place. 
2. On or about the Ist of June, 1889, I cleared the said schooner ‘‘ Kate,” as master 
thereof, at the Customs-house, port of Victoria, for a fishing and hunting voyage in 
the North Pacific Ocean and Behring’s Sea. 
On the following day the ‘‘ Kate” sailed on said voyage, fully equipped and pro- 
visioned for a whole season’s voyage, and carrying a crew of four men. 
3. On the west coast of Vancouver Island I engaged and took on board sixteen 
Indian hunters and sailed northward, entering Behring’s Sea on or about the 20th 
July following, haying then on board twenty-four seal-skins caught outside Beh- 
ring’s Sea. 
4. A few days after entering the Sea the hunters began taking seals, and continued 
to do so up to the 13th August following, on which day the ‘‘ Kate” had on board 630 
seal-skins. 
5. On said 13th August, at about 6 o’clock in the evening, the United States Rev- 
enue-cutter ‘Richard Rush” steamed up to the ‘ Kate,” w ithin hailing distance, and 
an officer asked me what I was doing. I replied that I was fishing. He said that 
he had orders to order all schooners out of Behring’s Sea if caught sealing, and if 
he saw me again in the sea he would seize me. The wind was blowing a gale at the 
time, and the cutter steamed away. 
6. In consequence of what had been said to me by the officer of said cutter I at 
once determined to leave the Sea and not risk seizure, and on the 16th day of the 
said month of August the ‘‘ Kate” sailed out of Behring’ s Sea by the Ounimak Pass, 
and sailing south teached Victoria about the 10th September, after some days’ delay 
on the west coast of Vancouver Island. 
