116 ALASKA INDUSTRIES. 



the 30th ultimo, and the former will follow as soon as he returns from 

 Unalaska, whitlier he is to go in charge of the seized vessel. 

 Respectfully, your obedient servant, 



Harrison G. Otis, 

 Special Agent Treasury Department, 



in Charge of Fur- Seal Islands. 

 Hon. John Sherman, 



Secretary of the Treasury, Washington, D. G. 



Special Agent Otis ; inclosing shipping receipts. 



Office of Special Agent Treasury Department, 



St. Paul Island, June 4, 1879, 



Sir: Herewith I have the honor to inclose certificate showing the 

 shipment from this island of 2,884 fur-seal skins, carefully counted by 

 me; also a certificate of Assistant Agent Scribuer, showing the ship- 

 ment of 600 skins from St. George Island — all of the quota of 1879. 



That officer reports under date of May 31, 1879, the state of seal 

 rookeries there as being favorable, and that, in consequence of the mild 

 winter, the season is ten days earlier than usual. 

 Your obedient servant, 



Harrison G. Otis, 



Treasury Agent in Charge. 

 Hon. John Sherman, 



Secretary of the Treasury, Washington, I). C. 



Inclosures ivitli Otis' letter of June 4, 1879; sMpptng receipts. 



Island of St. George, May 31, 1S79. 

 This is to certify that 600 fur-seal skins have this day beeiT shipped on board the 

 Alaska Commercial Company's St. Paul, Captain Erskine master, for Unalaska via 

 St. Paul Island. 



B. F. SCRIBNER, Assistant Treasury Agent. 



Island of St. Paul, June 4, 1879. 



This is to certify that 2,884 fur-seal skius have this day been shipped on board the 

 Alaska Commercial Company's steamer St. Paul, Erskine master, destined for San 

 Francisco later in the season. 



Harrison G. Otis, Treasury Agent in Charge. 



Special Agent Otis ; annual report for 1879. 



San Francisco, August 25, 1879. 



Sir: I have the honor to submit the following report of operations 

 on the seal islands of St. Paul and St. George, Alaska, under my 

 charge, for the year ending with the sealing season just closed. 



The lessees' steamer St. Paid, on which I took passage at San Fran- 

 cisco May 8 last, arrived at St. Paul Island May 27. The regular seal- 

 ing season commenced on both islands June 2 and ceased July 16. The 

 full quota of fur-seal skins allowed by law to be taken was secured in 

 less than forty working days and shipped from the islands. 



