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officials at San Francisco and those who have at ti 10 parties 



charged. 



different times for twenty years had the charge 

 and management of the Alaskan rookeries. And, 

 inasmuch as no such increased numbers of skins 

 appear in the reports of sales by Messrs. C. M. 

 Lampson & Company, of London, it involves a 

 reflection, also, upon the integrity of that well- 

 known house. 



The Government of the United States is loath Grea * Britain 



and the frauds 



to believe that Her Majesty's Government hiten- cnar s ed - 

 tionally and knowingly adopted these charges 

 against the officials of the United States and cit- 

 izens of both nations, which are entirely unsub- 

 stantiated by evidence, when it incorporated the 

 Report of its Commissioners in its Case before 

 the Tribunal of Arbitration, confidently believ- 

 ing that all such matter, if it had been previously 

 observed by the Agent of Great Britain, would 

 have been expunged from the Report before its 

 submission as a portion of the British Case. 



Inasmuch, however, as such charges have be- Eeason United 



' & States consider 



come a part of the Case of Her Majesty's Gov- the char s e - 

 eminent before the Tribunal of Arbitration, the 

 United States consider it a duty to deal there- 

 with, not because the same are sufficiently defi- 

 nite or important to establish any facts material 

 to this controversy, but for the sole purpose of 

 vindicating the officials of the United States; 

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