612 APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
The “Sylvia Handy” is an American vessel, and her owners, who are 
American citizens, appeal against her condemnation and forfeiture by 
the District Court of Alaska for engaging in the fur-seal fishery in 
Behring’s Sea 17 miles from land. 
It will be contended on this appeal that the Act of Congress under 
which the seizure was made has no application outside of the territo- 
rial waters of Alaska; and that, if it purports to control the waters of 
Behring’s Sea beyond 1 marine league from the shore, it is unconstitu- 
tional and abortive. 
20 This appeal case was numbered 683 in the last term of the Su- 
preme Court. It is now numbered 373, and it may possibly come 
up for hearing before the expiration of the ‘present term. Although 
different considerations apply to the case of an American vessel, the 
Court may be called on to give a construction to the words in clause 
1956 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, ‘‘ within the limits 
of Alaska Territory or in the waters thereof,” which will settle the 
question of law adversely to the contention of the United States Gov- 
ernment, and irrespectively of the nationality of the vessel. 
I have, We. 
(Signed) JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE. 
[Inclosure in No. 17]. 
Transcript of Record. 
SUPREME CoURY OF THE UNITED STATES. 
October Term, 1889. No. 683. 
The Schooner “Sylvia Handy,” her Tackle, Apparel, §c.; L. N. Handy, James Cartheut 
J. N. Handy, and William Thomas, Owners, Appellants, v. the United States. 
APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF 
ALASKA. 
(Filed June 16, 1888.) 
In the United States District Court in and for the District of Alaska, United States 
of America. 
To the Honourable LA FAYETTE DAWSON, Judge of said District Court. 
The libel of information of M. D. Ball, Attorney for the United States for the Dis- 
trict of Alaska, who prosecutes on behalf of the said United States, in the name and 
on behalf of the said United States, alleges and informs as follows, to wit: 
That M. A. Healey, an officer in the Revenue Marine Service of the United States, 
duly commissioned by the President of the United States, in command of the revenue- 
cutter ‘‘ Bear,” and on special duty in the waters of the District of Alaska, heretofore, 
to wit, the 2nd day of September, A. D. 1887, within the limits of Alaska Territory and 
in the waters thereof, and within the Civil and Judicial District of Alaska, to wit, 
within the waters of that portion of Behri ing’s Sea belonging to the United States and 
said district, on waters navigable from the | sea by vessels of 10 or more tons burden, 
seized the schooner‘ ‘Sylvia Handy, ” of San Francisc o, California, her tackle, apparel, 
boats, cargo, and furniture, being the property of some person or persons unknown to 
said Attorney. 
The property is more particularly described as follows, to wit: The schooner 
“Sylvia Handy,” of San Francisco, California, of 67,4; tons burden as per register, 
Stearn and running rigging, sails, chronometer and nautical instruments, clock, 
lamps, carpenters’ tools, books, anchors, casks, cooking and table utensils, provi- 
sions, rifles and shot-guns and ammunition for the same, ‘and 1 ,679 fur-seal skins, and 
all other property found upon or appurtenant to said schooner. 
