APPRAISEMENTS OF SEALING VESSELS. 



District of Alaska, Clerk's Office, 



Sitka, Alaska, October 15, 1892. 



To the 



Honorable Secretary of State, 



Washington, D. C. : 

 Dear Sir: Eeferring to your telegram of September 17, 1892, to the 

 lion, collector of customs, Port Towusend, Wash., and by him for- 

 warded to this office, I desire to say that the certified copy of the ap- 

 praisal values of vessels seized, 1880-1890, in tabulated form, forwarded 

 to your Department October 3, 1892, is incorrect. I have therefore pre- 

 pared certified copies in full of all the appraisements of such vessels and 

 cargoes on file and of record in my office, which, together with a cor- 

 rect tabulated statement of such appraisal values, I herewith enclose. 

 Yery respectfully, 



N. E. Peckinpatjgh, 



Clerk. 



To the 



Hon. Lafayette Dawson, 



Judge of the United States District Court, District of Alaska: 

 We, the undersigned, appointed and sworn this 10th day of August, 

 A. D. 1887, to appraise and value the schooner San Diego, her tackle, 

 apparel, furniture, and boats, and such portion of her cargo as may be 

 in this port and can be viewed, report as follows : 



We appraise and value said schooner, her tackle, rigging, and apparel 

 at seven hundred and sixty-six dollars ($700.00); her furniture at one 

 hundred and sixty-five dollars ($165.00); her four boats, oars and oar- 

 locks at two hundred dollars ($200.00) ; her salt ten dollars ($10.00); 

 in all, the sum of eleven hundred and forty-one dollars ($1,141.00). 

 Dated at Sitka, Alaska, this 16th day of August, A. D. 1887. 



John G. Brady, 

 W. E. Mills, 

 J. M. Vanderbilt, 



Appraisers. 



The United States of America, 



District of Alaska, ss: 

 I, N. E. Peckinpaugh, clerk of the United States district court for the 

 district of Alaska, do hereby certify that the foregoing copy of the ap- 

 praisement of the schr. San Diego, her tackle, apparel, furniture, boats, 

 and cargo has been by me compared with the original, and that it is a 



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