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lands, the custom-house inspector at San Fran- Various counts 



of skins compared. 



cisco, the Alaska Commercial Company's packers 

 before shipment to London, and by C. M. Lamp- 

 son & Company, shows that but 900 more skins 

 were sold during* twenty years in London than 

 appear in the original count made when the 

 bundles were loaded on the steamer at thePribilof 

 Islands. 1 This is an average of 45 skins per year m J^of coanSf *" 

 out of a quota of 100,000, which quota was fully 

 taken in seven years only. To this extent, and 

 to this extent alone, can fraud be charged. 



In 1875 Special Ag-ent J. S. Moore made a re- Moore's report 



1 & . of 1875. 



port to the Secretary of the Treasury, embodying 

 the result of certain investigations made by him 

 as to the number of skins taken by the lessees of 

 the Pribilof Islands. He found that 559 more 

 skins had beeD sold in London than those ac- 

 counted for in the tax receipts from the Treasury 

 Department, and he submitted a table, compiled 

 by him, giving the number of skins on which 

 tax was paid, the number accounted for as shipped 

 to C. M. Lampson & Company, and the number 

 sold by them. He summarizes the result of his 

 investigation as follows: "I am perfectly satis- 

 fied that these figures are correct, unless not only 

 the company, but the customs officers on the 

 Islands, the officers of the ships that bring the 



1 Max Heilbronner, post p. 368. 



