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afford to purchase furniture for the limited period they usually remain 

 here. I therefore ask that I may be permitted to expend $500 for fur- 

 nishing- the offices and sleeping rooms of the Government buildings on 

 St. raul and St. George islands. This will give but 8250 to each build- 

 ing, which will but little, if any, more than decently furnish the offices. 

 The agents of the Government who are willing to come to this inhospi- 

 table climate ought to be made as comfortable as is consistent with 

 proper economy. 



Bishop ^Nestor, of the Russo- Greek Church, who came from San Fran- 

 cisco with me on the St. Paul, committed suicide on the 12th instant by 

 jumping overboard from the same steamer while off tbe coast of Stuart 

 Island, in Norton Sound. He was greatly beloved by his people, and 

 respected by everybody. 



The health of the natives on St. George has been good. Only two 

 deaths have occurred there in a year, and those were children. 



Respectfully submitted. 



Henry A. Glidden, 



Special Agent. 



Hon. Charles J. Folger, 



Secretary of the Treasury. 



Inclosure with Special Agent Glidden' s annual report for 1882. 



Alaska Commercial Company, San Francisco, Cal., in account ivith the United States at St. 



Paul Island, Alaska. 



1882. Dr. 



July 28. To shipment of fnr-SGcal skins to date, quota 1882, 80,000. 



June 1. To amount of salt salmon required to be supplied for consumption by the 

 native people, requisite quantity. 



June 1. To amount of coal required to be furnished for use of native people, 42 tons. 



June 1. To supplies of barrels and salt required to be furuished natives for the pres- 

 ervation of meat, requisite number and amount. 



June 1. To supplies agreed to be furuished native people in lieu of killing young 

 seals for meat, requisite amount and quantity. 



June 1. To maintenance of schools as reciuired by lease, eight mouths. 



1882. Cr. 



July 21. By lawful quota of fur-seal skins allowed to be taken annually, quota 1882, 



80,000. 

 June 1. By amount of salt salmon sup]»lied for consumption to the native people, 



requisite quantity. 



June 1. By amount of coal supplied for use of native people in lieu of wood, 42 tons. 



June 1. By barrels and salt supplied native people for preservation of meat, requi- 

 site amount and quantity. 



Juno 1. By food furnished native people to be used in lieu of young seal meat, requi- 

 site amount and quantity. 



June 1. By maintenance of schools commencing September 5, 1881, and closing May 

 15, 1882, eight months. 



St. Paul Island, Alaska, July 28, 1882. 

 I hereby certify that the foregoing account is correct, according to the best of my 



knowledge and belief. 



Henry A. Glidt^en, 

 Special Agent, Seal Islands. 



The Secretary of the Treasury, 



Washington, D. C. 



