70 ALASKA INDUSTRIES. 



hauilH foniiued liiiu iu the cellar and lot the boy go liee. After that Captain Mclu- 

 tyre kept Ciprian Merkuliev several days in the cellar and finally released him. 

 Since that time Captain Mclntyre gave us no peace; he incessantly visited our 

 houses and forced our doors, and even went so far as to iirevent our -working for 

 the company, which paid us for our work. Since then we lived with him through 

 the whole winter in daily expectation of heing shot by him, and we do not want to 

 live any longer with him on the island. 



NiCANOR YlKONLOV. 



Andronik Rezantz.ov. 



(Then follow the names of 26 Aleutes, afhxed by themselves or on their request by 

 those of their fellow- villagers who knew how to write.) 



Col. George Marstoii, the last appointed assistant Treasury agent, 

 arrived and reported for duty at St. Paul Island June 27, and after a 

 month of careful instruction in the special duties of his position, on my 

 departure, August 16, he was placed in charge of that island during my 

 absence on leave, with the following instructions : 



Treasury A(;ent Office, St. Paul Island, August 6, 1873. 



Sir: You are hereby placed in charge of St. Paul Island during my absence on 

 leave by the Secretary of the Treasury. It will be your duty to see that the laws of 

 the United States concerning the taking of fur seals under the contract with the 

 Alaska Commercial Company are observed ; that the natives are protected in all 

 their rights, and in general it will be your duty to perform all those acts which shall 

 be for the welfare of the United States, and the comfort, improvement, and well- 

 being of the natives of the island. 



Your station is provided with a book for keeping a record of all transactions and 

 occurrences that may be useful in furnishing information for guidance in the future 

 government of the affairs of the island. 



You will see that no seals are driven or killed except under the direction of the 

 chiefs with your permission, and in killing for food for natives you will see that as 

 near as may be only such seals are killed as whose skins may be of the class to be 

 accepted by the Alaska Commercial Company as a part of the quota of next year, 

 and in killing young seals for winter food you will limit the number to be taken to 

 3,000 instead of 5,000, as was done last year. You will, however, have a sufficient 

 number of larger seals killed when the weather is snfificiently cold for their curing 

 jiroperly with salt to insure a winter supply of food in case the weather should prove 

 too warm during the winter for the usual supply to 1)e kept frozen. 



You will permit no person not a native of the seal islands to reside on the island, 

 other than the employees of the Government or of the Alaska Commercial Company, 

 with a written permission of the Secretary of the Treasury. You are further 

 instructed that if any cases come within your knowledge of the natives brewing 

 quas or beer from sugar, or you have reason to believe such natives are indulging in 

 such i^ractices you will be careful to see that it is broken up and that supplies of sugar 

 and other articles from which such quas or beer is made are sold to them iu such 

 limited quantities as to prevent a repetition of such practices. 



By permission of the Secretary of the Treasury, a priest of the Russian orthodox 

 church is permitted to reside on the island to minister to the spiritual wants of the 

 people, with the understanding, however, that in all civil matters he will be subject 

 to the laws of the United States and the regulations of the Secretary of the Treas- 

 ury made in pursuance thereof. 



As soon after the leaving of the steamer as convenient for yourself and the agent 

 of the Alaska Commercial Company, you will receive 40- tons of coal in lieu of the 

 proportion for this island of the 60 cords of wood provided as a condition of the 

 lease. You will, on receiving this coal, give to the agent of the Alaska Commercial 

 Company a receipt therefor, and have this coal stored until, in your judgment and 

 the chiefs of the people, its use becomes necessary, when you will cause it to be dis- 

 tributed to the people on the same principle and method as described on page 221 of 

 the book of records for the island under date December 14, 1874. 



Charles Bryant, 

 Treasury Jgent, iu Charr/e of Seal Iflauds. 



George Marstox, Esq., 



Ansistani TreasHri/ Agent, in Charge of St. Paul Island. 



I have the honor to remain, yours respectfully, 



Charles Bryant, 

 Treasury Agent, in Charge of i^eal Tslaiids. 

 Hon. B. H. Bristow, 



^Secretary of the Treasury. 



