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Department of Commerce for the account of the Government are 

 included in order that the records may be complete. 



Puhlic auction sale, May 23, 1927.~At this sale 13,137 fur-seal 

 skins taken at the Pribilof Islands, dressed, dyed, and machined, sold 

 for $436,535.50; 91 other fur-seal skins taken at the Pribilof Islands, 

 consisting of 79 raw salted, faulty, 4 dressed, and 8 washed and 

 dried, sold for a total of $30.70; a grand total of $436,566.20. Of the 

 dressed, dyed, and machined skins, 11,611 were dyed black and 1,526 

 logwood brown (Bois de Campeche). 



Puhlic auction sale, October 3, 1927. — At this sale 10,333 fur-seal 

 skins taken at the Pribilof Islands, dressed, dyed, and machined, sold 

 for $336,529; 1 confiscated skin, dressed, dyed, and machined, for 

 $26.50; 123 Japanese skins, dressed, dyed, and machined, for $2,877; 

 and 9 raw salted Japanese skins for $4.50; a grand total of $339,437. 

 Seven thousand two hundred and eighty of the Pribilof Islands skins 



Fig. 10.— Hauling freshly taken fur-seal skins to salthouse, Pribilof Islands, Alaska 



were dyed black and the other 3,053 logwood brown (Bois de Campeche) . 

 The confiscated skin and the 123 dyed Japanese skins were dyed 

 black. 



The 132 Japanese fur-seal skins sold on October 3, 1927, were the 

 United States Government's share of sealskins taken by the Japanese 

 Government in 1926, delivered pursuant to the provisions of the 

 North Pacific Sealing Convention of July 7, 1911. 



Special sales. — In the calendar year 1927, 57 dressed, dyed, and 

 machined fur-seal skins were sold at special sales for $2,803.98. All 

 were taken at the Pribilof Islands. Fifty were dyed black and 7 

 logwood brown (Bois de Campeche). 



The following tables give further details in regard to all sales of 

 fur-seal skins b}^ the Department of Commerce for the account of the 

 Government in 1927: 



