RELATING TO VISITS FOREIGN WHALERS TO BERING SEA. 199 



No. 14. 



Letter from the chief manger of the Russian American Colonies to the mana- 

 ger of the island of St. Paul. Written from Sitka, August 10, 1866. 



You are instructed to continue the seal catch in the following man- 

 ner: 



1. Twenty thousand salted sealskins every year, and 



2. Next year, 37,000 dried sealskins, and in the following years, if 

 you have no special instructions, 30,000 every year. Do not kill any 

 small gray seals in future. 



No. 15. 



Letter from the chief manager of the Russian American Colonies to the man- 

 ager of the island of St. Paul. Written from Sitka, April 9, 1867. 



The board of administration has notified me that Messrs. Oppenheim 

 & Co., after receiving the sealskins sent by us, expressed the Avish 

 that only salted sealskins be sent them; and you are therefore in- 

 structed to prepare 40,000 salted sealskins for the summer of 1868, and 

 to stop drying the skins for the present. 



Send to Sitka all the dried sealskins which you have on hand, and, 

 in addition, send this year 35,000 salted sealskins, which are needed, 

 according to the last dispatch of the board of administration, instead 

 of dried ones. 



If I did not instruct you last year not to kill the gray seals, you are 

 now instructed not to kill any of them, as a very large quantity of 

 grey sealskins have accumulated at New Archangel. 



B.— RELATING TO THE VISITS OF FOREIGN WHALERS TO BERING 



SEA. 



No. 16. 



Letter from the board of administration of the Russian American Com- 

 pany to Captain of the Second Bank Nicholas Yakovlovitch Rosenberg, 

 chief manager of the Russian American Colonies. 



No. 897.] July 13, 1850. 



In reply to your predecessor's dispatch No. 464, of October 15, 1849, 

 the board of Administration has the honor to inform you that the cir- 

 cumstances stated therein in regard to the visiting of the island of St. 

 Paul by foreign whalers, as well as the interrogatory papers, have been 

 communicated to our minister in the United States, with the request 

 that steps may be taken to prevent the Americans from invading the 

 integrity of the Eussian limits and of the property rights of the com- 

 pany. At the same time the board of administration expects that you, 



