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V. Ptihlication of laws and Treasury regulations. — I respectfully call 

 your attention to my letter to the Department dated July 4, 1881, and 

 to the accompanying compilation of the various scattered laws, Execu- 

 tive orders, and Treasury regulations affecting the seal islands, and 

 renew my recommendation that the same be printed under the direction 

 of the Secretary, at the Government Printing Office, and a limited 

 number of copies be furnished for use in Alaska. 



As the annual sailing day of the seal island steamer is now only some 

 thirty days off, I have to request your early attention to the matters 

 presented in this letter. 



1 am, sir, very respectfully, your obedieut servant, 



Harrison G. Otis, 



Treasury Agetit, in Charge of the Seal Islands. 



Hon. Charles J. Folger, 



Secretary of the Treasury. 



Special Agent Glidden; preliminary report for 1882. 



Office of Special Agent Treasury Department, 



St. Paul Island, May 30, 1882. 



Sir: In accordance with your letter of instructions of April 17, 1 left 

 San Francisco on the steamer St. Paul on the 4th instant and came, 

 via Kodiak, Unalaska, and St. George Island to this place, arriving 

 here on the afternoon of the 28th. The steamer only anchored at St. 

 George long enough to land Assistant Agent Louis Kinmiel and take on 

 board Assistant Agent Wardnian. Mr. Wardman came here with me 

 for the purpose of consultation with Mr. Moultou, assistant agent at 

 this place. I have advised with them very freely in relation to the 

 conditions and requirements of the islands. 



Agreeably to your j)ermission, I have directed that the quota of seals 

 to be taken for their skins be apportioned at 78,000 on St. Paul and 

 22,000 on St. George. 



I am informed that there has been but little quas brewed upon the 

 islands since the 1st of Januarj^, but that enough has been used to 

 cause occasional instances of drunkenness. In consequence of this the 

 sale of sugar has been entirely stopped, and all o])en appearance of 

 quas drinking has disappeared. I have recommended to the Alaska 

 Commercial Company to procure and keep on sale a sufficient supply of 

 condensed milk to take the place of sugar, and they will comply with my 

 recommendation. It is hoped that the removal of sugar from the reach 

 of the natives will effectually put a stop to the brewing of quas and 

 to the intoxication consequent upon its use. 



There have been no pup seals killed for food upon St. Paul Island 

 during the past year. In lieu of this seal meat the Alaska Commercial 

 Company has furnished, free of charge, corned beef, condensed milk, 

 and other articles of food. The order in relation to killing pup seals 

 for food did not reach the agent in charge at St. George last fall until 

 after the comijlement of pup seals for that purpose had been killed. 

 The company's steamer, I)ora, owing to rough weather, was unable to 

 land the supplies destined to take the place of pup seal meat on that 

 island. There were, therefore, 1,031 pup seals killed on that island for 



