90 THE RUSSIAN AMERICAN COMPANY. 



The 70,000 skins now ordered to be prepared you must take only in 

 case no decrease in the numbers of the animals is observed, otherwise 

 you must immediately advise me for the purpose of having the number 

 reduced with a view to preserve fur seals for subsequent years. 



As these instructions will reach you late in the season, and as you 

 will consequently be unable to prepare the whole quantity of fur-seal 

 skins now required, I have to request that you will endeavor to take 

 and salt not less tlian 10,000 skins during the time occupied by the 

 trip of the vessel from St. Paul to St. Michael's redoubt and back, and 

 to put them on board of the vessel on her second visit to the island. 

 Last year you sent only 10,000 dried skins, while the order was to send 

 about 20,000. In future you must endeavor to strictly fill the orders. 



As to No. 34. You will make a report to my successor as to the re- 

 wards to deserving employes. He will probably visit your island in the 

 course of this year. 



As to Ko. 30. I thank you for your efforts in regard to the vaccina- 

 tion of the inhabitants, and I request that you will not neglect the 

 matter in future. 



In regard to your request for the admission of your son to the gen- 

 eral colonial school of the Company at the Company's expense, I have 

 to inform you that this school is not fully organized for the reception 

 of boarders, and I therefore advise you to place your son as aboarder with 

 one of your sisters here who receive j)ensions; your son when residing 

 at Sitkii can attend the school on the same terms as the day pupils of 

 the Company. 



The brig khelilcof will carry to you a cargo of supplies which you 

 ■will discharge, sending on the same vessel the accumulated furs as well 

 as your reports. Besides this vessel, you will be visited by the steamer 

 Konstantin on hQv return trip from Nushagak; this vessel will bring 

 you about 2,500 pounds of salt, and probably some logs. 



I have ordered skipper Archimandritof to proceed by this brig for 

 an inspection of the island under your care j you are therefore directed 

 to comply with all his requests. 



