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that you specifically request information on the following points as to 

 the catches of 1893 and 1894: 



(1) As to the total number of seals taken by British vessels. 



(2) The total number of skins landed at British ports by said vessels. 



(3) The total number transshipped in Japan and Eussian ports, and 

 landed ultimately at Victoria. 



(4) The number of skins landed at Victoria by American vessels. 



(5) A report as to the sex of seals taken in Bering Sea and the North 

 Pacific Ocean. 



(6) Location of the place of catch by latitude and longitude. 



(7) The number of seal hunters employed, indicating whites and 

 Indians, and also the number of the crew and the tonnage of each 

 vessel. 



I have further to request that you inquire whether or not pelagic 

 skins were specially examined as to the sex by the British Government, 

 as was done in the case of the skins entered in United States ports. 

 I have the honor, etc.. 



The Secretary of State. 



J. G. Carlisle, Secretary. 



Treasitey Department, 



WasMnyton, D. C, February 12, 1895. 



Sir: I have the honor to inform you that the statistics heretofore 

 furnished to you by this Department, containing a statement of the 

 pelagic catch of seals taken by American vessels in the north Pacific 

 Ocean and Bering Sea during the season of 1894, were not extended so 

 as to show the operations by latitude and longitude for each day. I 

 herewith transmit two copies of a detailed statement of such operations, 

 which statements include four vessels additional to those named in the 

 papers heretofore sent to you, viz, the Louis Olsen, which entered at 

 Victoria; Rose Sparhs, Therese, and Jane Grey, which entered at San 

 Francisco. These statements have been compiled under the direction 

 of the United States Fish Commission, from the records of tbe custom- 

 houses and personal observations of Prof. C. H. Townsend, who is con- 

 nected with the Commission. It will be noted that, as you have been 

 advised heretofore, the remaining vessels cleared without notice of the 

 regulations of the Paris award, and therefore kept no record of latitude 

 and longitude. The collector of customs at San Francisco reports that 

 he required the masters to make oath to this fact on entry. 

 Respectfully, yours, 



C. S. Hamlin, Acting Secretary. 



The Secretary of State. 



(For iiiclosure, see Reports on Fur Seals by Fisli Commission, Sen. Doc. 137, part 2, 

 54th Coug., Ist sess., pp. 59-GO.) 



Treasury Department, 

 Washington, D. C, February 12, 1895. 

 Sir: As requested by Mr. Bax-Ironsides, I take pleasure in trans- 

 mitting for your information copy of a letter dated the 11th instant, 

 addressed by me to the President, in relation to the resolution recently 

 introduced in the Senate, calling for reports, documents, and other 



