APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 949 
[Inclosure i.] 
Lord Stanley of Preston to Lord Knutsford. 
GOVERNMENT Houss, Oltawa, February 10, 1892. 
My Lonrp: I have the honour to transmit herewith, for your Lordship’s informa- 
tion, copy of an Order in Council, to which are appended affidavits taken before 
the Collector of Customs at Victoria, British Columbia, with regard to certain 
points in connection with pelagic sealing. i 
Copy of the Order in Councii has heen sent to Her Majesty’s Minister at Wash- 
ington for communication to the Behring’s Sea Commissioners. 
I have, &c. 
(Signed) STANLEY OF PRESTON. 
[Inclosure 2.] 
Report of a Committee of the Honourable the Privy Council, approved by his Excellency 
the Governor-General in Council on the 9th February, 1892. 
On a report, dated the Ist February, 1892, from the Minister of Marine and Fish- 
eries, stating that, upon the receipt of a letter from the Behring’s Sea Commis- 
sioners, Sir George Baden-Powell and Dr. George M. Dawson, asking for additional 
documentary evidence regarding certain points which have been put forward among 
the main indictments of pelagic sealing, he communicated with the Collector of 
Customs at Victoria, with a view to eliciting information on the following points: 
1. The proportion of seals lost as compared with those hit in pelagic sealing. 
2. The proportion of females to males in the number killed in the different fishing 
seasons. 
3. The abstention of Canadians from all raiding on the seal islands. 
The appended affidavits, taken before A. R. Milne, Collector of Customs at Vic- 
toria, have been received from the following parties: 
Cereno Jones Kelley, master of the schooner ‘‘C. H. Tupper.” 
Captain William Petit, master and part owner schooner ‘‘ Mischief.” 
Captain Wentworth Evelyn Baker, master schooner ‘‘C. H. Tupper,” and formerly 
aster of schooner ‘ Viva.” 
Clarence Nelson Cox, master of schooner ‘‘E. B. Marvin.” 
Captain Alfred Bissett, master of schooner “ Annie E. Paint.” 
Captain Theodore M. Magnesen, in command of schooner ‘‘ Walter A. Earl.” 
Henry Crocker, hunter on board schooner ‘‘ Annie E. Paint.” 
George Roberts, hunter on board schooner ‘‘ Annie E. Paint.” 
Richard Thomson, hunter on board schooner ‘‘ Annie E. Paint.” 
Andrew Laing, seal hunter. 
William Cox, master schooner ‘‘ Sapphire.” 
The Minister recommends that copies of these affidavits be transmitted to the 
Behring’s Sea Commissioners withont delay. 
167. The Committee, on the recommendation of the Minister of Marine and Fish- 
eries, advise that your Excellency be moved to forward a copy hereof to the 
Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies for the information of Her Majesty’s 
Government. 
All of which is respectfully submitted for your Excellency’s approval. 
(Signed) JOHN J. MCGEE, 
Clerk of the Privy Council. 
{Inclosure 3.] 
Mr. Milne to Mr. Tupper. 
Customs, CanaDA, Victoria, B. C., January 22, 1892. 
Sir: I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 
7th instant, relative to a joint letter from Sir George Baden-Powell aud Dr. George 
M. Dawson, Beliring’s Sea Commissioners. 
I beg to state that I have endeavoured to supply the information, and herewith 
transmit the first lot of affidavits of some of the most reliable of our sealing men, 
ra I am continuing to take all I can obtain, which will be forwarded from day 
to day. 
