Foreign Relations of the United States, 1902, Whaling and Sealing Claims Against Russia, On Account of Arrest and Seizure of the American Vessels “Cape Horn Pigeon,” “James Hamilton Lewis,” “C. H. White,” and “Kate and Anna,” Appendix I

EXHIBIT B.

No. 6615.—United States of America.

department of state.

To all to whom these presents shall come, greeting:

I certify that the document hereunto annexed is under the seal of the Treasury Department, and is entitled to full faith and credit.

In testimony whereof I, John Hay, Secretary of State of the United States, have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the seal of the Department of State to be affixed.

Done at the city of Washington this 6th day of December, A. D. 1900, and of the independence of the United States of America the one hundred and twenty-fifth.

John Hay.

[Seal of Department of State.]

Division of Appointments.

Treasury Department, Office of the Secretary,
Washington, December 6, 1900.

This is to certify that N. S. Farley and Stanley Jackson were deputy collectors of customs at the port of San Francisco on November 19, 1900, and September 8, 1900, respectively, the dates upon which the inclosed papers bearing their signatures were executed, and that they were duly authorized to sign as such officers on the respective dates above named, the signatures appearing thereon being identical with those attached to official papers in the files of this office.

[seal.]

Gage, Secretary.

Office of the Collector of Customs,
Port of San Francisco, Cal., November 19, 1900.

I hereby certify that the American schooner C. H. White, of San Francisco, of 84 tons or thereabouts, cleared at this port, for hunting and fishing, on the 6th day of May, 1892, and that L. M. Furman was master, as appears by the records of this office.

N. S. Farley,
Deputy Collector of Customs.
Craig.