AA APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
by the United States Revenue cutter ‘ Richard Rush,” I have the honour to transmit 
to your Lordship a copy of an approved Report of a Committee of the Privy Council, 
submitting formal statements and claim of the owner, Mr. Victor Jacobson, of Vic- 
toria, British Columbia, amounting to the sum of 16,460 dollars. 
Ihave, &c. 
(Signed) STANLEY OF PRESTON 
{Inclosure 2 in No. 295.] 
Report of a Committee of the Honourable the Privy Council, approved by his Excellency 
the Governor-General in Council on the 51st January, 1890. 
On a Report dated the 16th January, 1890, from the Minister of Marine and Fish- 
eries, Submitting, with reference to the seizure in the Behring’s Sea of the British 
schooner ‘‘ Minnie” (the circumstances attending which were detailed in a Minute 
of Council dated the 14th September, 1889), formal statements and claims by the 
owner, Mr. Victor Jacobson, of Victoria, British Columbia, to compensation for loss 
incurred by reason of the seizure of the said vessel, and the forcible removal there- 
from to the United States Revenue cutter ‘Richard Rush” of 420 seal-skins, and 
guns, spears, &c., as well as for the value of the catch for the balance of the season 
had the vessel not been interfered with in the legitimate pursuit of her calling, which 
claim aggregates 16,460 dollars: 
The Committee, on the recommendation of the Minister of Marine and Fisheries, 
advise that your Excellency be moved to forward copies hereof to the Right Hon- 
ourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, for transmissien to the Government 
of the United States. 
All which is respectfully submitted. 
(Signed) JOUN J. MCGEE, 
Clerk, Privy Council. 
[Inclosure 3 in No. 295.] 
Declaration of Victor Jacobson. 
City oF Victoria, Province of British Columbia, Dominion of Canada. 
I, Victor Jacobson, of the city of Victoria, in the Province of British Columbia, 
Dominion of Canada, master mariner, do solemnly and sincerely declare as follows: 
1. That I am the owner and master of the British vessel ‘‘ Minnie,” 50 tons burden, 
registered at the port of Victoria aforesaid. 
2. That in the first part of the month of May last I cleared the said ‘‘ Minnie” at 
the port of Victoria for a sealing and hunting voyage in the North Pacitie Ocean 
and Behring’s Sea, and sailed immediately afterwards. 
3. IL hada crew of five white men and sixteen Indians, with two boats for white 
hunters, eight canoes for Indian hunters, and completely provisioned and equipped 
for a full season’s hunting and sealing in northern waters. 
4, On the 27th day of June last I entered the Behring’s Sea, through Ounimak 
Pass, having then on board about 150 seal-skins caught on the way up from Victoria. 
5. Limmediately engaged in hunting, and sealing and continued to do so until the 
15th July last, at which date I had on board 420 seal-skins in all. 
6. On that day, the 15th July last, about 4 o’clock in the afternoon, I sighted a 
steamer bearing down upon us, which proved to be the United States Revenue steamer 
“Richard Rush.” When within hailing distance, an officer on the said ‘‘ Rush” 
salled out to me to heave-to, and I did so; a boat was sent off from the *‘ Rush” with 
two officers and ten or twelve men. The officer and five or six men came on board 
the ‘‘Minnie.” The officer in command asked me for my papers, which I handed 
411 tohim. He then asked me when I entered the sea, and how many skins I had. 
I told him, and he went back to the ‘‘Rush.” In a short time he returned and 
told me he would take all the skins, seize my vessel, and send her to Sitka in charge 
of a man from the ‘‘Rush.” He then ordered his men to open the hatches and take 
all the seal-skins, 420 in number, on board the ‘‘Rush,” which was done. He also 
took two guns and all the Indian spears. He then went back to the “Rush,” but 
soon returned to my vessel with a man, and sai& to me that this man would take 
charge of the vessel, except navigating her, and take her to Sitka. 
7. At the time of the seizure the ‘‘ Minnie” was about 65 miles north-west by west 
from Ounimak Pass, and about the same distance from Ounimak Island, the nearest 
land. 
