CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 81 



This lease has been awarded to the Coiupauy above named 

 106 for the term of twenty years, a copy of which is herewith 

 inchjsed ; and the request of General Jeffries that an ofHcial 

 announcement be made of tlie award of said lease, and that no vessels 

 except those of the Government and of saiil Company will be allowed 

 to touch or land at either of said islands, may l)e complied with, and 

 you AviU })lease cause stich notice to be published in one or more of 

 the San Francisco newsjiapers, at the expense of said Company. 

 I am, &c., 



(Signed) AVm. A. Richardson. 



JctuKj /Secretary. 

 T. (i. Phelps, Esq., 



Collector of Customs, Sa)i Francisco, California 



Custom-House, San Francisco, California, 



Collector's Office, Septcmher 30, 1S70. 

 SiK : I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of 

 the 19th instant, relative to the published notice of the sailing of the 

 schooner "Mary Zephyr" for the Islands of St. Paul and St. (ieorge, 

 in Alaska. On seeing the advertisement in the" Alta,'' written notice 

 was immediately sent to the ])arties interested, that no vessel would 

 be permitted to land at said islands. 1 have caused a notice, as sug- 

 gested by the honourable Secretary, to be published. Please find a 

 copy of the notice inclosed. 

 I am, &c., 



(Signed) T. G. Phelps, 



Honourable Geo. S. Boutwell, Collector. 



Secretary Treasury. 



Xotice. 



In compliance with an order of the honourable Secretary of the 

 Treasury, notice is hereby given that a lease of the Islands of St. Paul 

 and St. (George, in the Territory of Alaska, has been executed bj' the 

 Secretary of the Treasury to the Alaska Commercial Company for the 

 period of twenty years from the 1st day of May, 1870, in accordance 

 with the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled "An Act to prevent 

 the Extermination of Fur-bearing Animals in Alaska," approved the 

 1st July, 1^70, and that, by the terms of said lease and the above- 

 mentioned Act, the said Company have the exclusive right to engage 

 in the business of taking fur seals on said islands and the islands 

 adjacent thereto. No vessels, other than those belonging to said 

 Alaska Commercial Company or to the United States, will be per- 

 mitted to touch or land at either of said islands or the islands adjacent 

 thereto, nor will any person be allowed thereon except the authorized 

 agents of the United States and of said Company. 



(Signed) T. G. Phelps, 



Collector of Customs. 



CusToM-HousE, San Francisco, California, 

 Collector's Office, September 2S, 1S70. 



107 Wlieu tlieabove-mentioiied legislation was enacted, 



Mr. Bout^A"ell, as already stated, was Secretary of tbe 

 United States Treasury. 



opinion of UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT IN 1872 AS TO JURIS 



diction. 



The following correspondence between Mr. T. G. Pbelps seTs%^eEate e°x* 

 and Mr. Boutwell sliows tlie position assumed in 1872 by doc.'no. loe, pp! 

 tbe Treasury Department in relation to tbe extent of juris- ^39, ^^o. 

 diction of tbe United States in Alaskan waters: 



S. Ex. 177, pt 4 6 



