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ST. PAUL ISLAND. 



Aug. 1, 1884 : By supply of coal for native use as required by lease, 40 tons ; fish, 60 



barrels ; salt, reiiuisite quantity ; barrels, requisite number. 

 May 6, 1885 : By maiutenance of scliool, eight months. 



ST. GEORGE ISLAND. 



Oct. 10, 1884: By STipply of coal for native use as required by lease, 20 tons; fish, 20 

 barrels; salt, requisite quantity; barrels, reqiiisite number; maintenance of school, 

 eight months. 



Special Agent Ryan; preliminary report, 1885. 



Office of Special Agent Treasury Department, 



St. George Island, June 3, 1885. 



Sir : I liave tbe honor to report that I arrived at this station on the 

 29th ultimo, finding Assistant Agents George Wardman and H. G. 

 Fowler on duty. I at once took charge, and have till this date devoted 

 my time during business hours to an examination into the condition 

 and management of affairs. I take pleasure in stating that I find the 

 interests of the Government carefully guarded and conducted on busi- 

 ness principles, and, so far as I have been able to observe, without 

 affording any grounds for the charges of frauds so freely made against 

 the Alaska Comitiercial Company. While it is possible I may be forced 

 to change my mind as to this, for the present I feel it to be my duty to 

 report the situation of affairs as I now see them. 

 Very respectfully, yours, 



T. F. Ryan, 

 Agent, Seal Islands. 

 Hon. Daniel Manning, 



Secretary of the Treasury. 



Assistant Agent Ryan; annual report for 1885 foi' St. George Island. 



Office of Special Agent Treasury Department, 



St. George Island, July 30, 1885. 



Sir : I herewith hand you statement of the season's seal killing on 

 the island of St. George— 15,000, the lawful quota for this year. I am 

 pleased to be able to report that the season (excepting the poor pro- 

 tection from marauders) has passed oft' in a most satisfactory manner, 

 as you will see in part from statement that the work of driving, killing, 

 and skinning has been done with patience and care — but 2 under size, 

 19 perished, and none cut. There have been no complaints worthy of 

 mention made by the Alaska Commercial Company or by the natives 

 (one against the other), and your assistant, so far as the interests of the 

 Government are concerned, has had no fault to find with either, for both 

 have most willingly complied with every regulation controlling the seal 

 interests and the welfare of the natives. 



From the 1st of July on Ave have had more or less annoyance from 

 the presence of a schooner prowling around at a distance and at times 

 coming near East and Zapadnie rookeries. We kept a watchman at 

 East some of the time, and at Zapadnie all the time, night and day, 

 but the final discovery of their deviltry was not made till July 20 (the 



