LETTER FROM C. M. LAMPSON & CO. 



London, 64 Queen Street, E. C, June 13, IRQ 3. 

 F. W. Frigout, Esq., 



Deputy Consul- General of the United States: 

 Dear Sir: Referring to tlie conversation we liad witli yon to day, 

 we beg to inform you the averages of last year's catch of fur-seal skins 

 are as follows: 



Per skin. 



Alaska 125s. id. 



Copper 688. 6d. 



Northwest Coast, at 53s. 3d. 



Yours, truly, 



C. M. Lampson & Co. 



Kingdom of Great Britain, 



City of London, Ungland, ss: 



I, Francis W. Frigout, vice and deputy and acting Con sul-General of 

 the United States of America at Loudon, England, do hereby certify 

 that the signature " C, M. Lampsou & Co." subscribed to the foregoing 

 letter is the true and proper handwriting of Emil Tiechmann, a partner 

 in said lirm of C. M. Lampson & Co., a firm well and favorably known 

 to me as the leading firm in the seal-skin industry of this city, and that 

 to all acts so signed as the foregoing full faith and credit are and ought 

 to be given in judicature and thereout. 



In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 14th 

 day of June, 1892. 



[seal.] Francis W. Frigout, 



Vice and Deputy and Acting Consul- General. 



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