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TESTIMONY 



the skins as they were unloaded from the vessel at the wharf hi San 

 Francisco; duplicates of said reports being given to the Alaska Com- 

 mercial Company ; the third column entitled "Packing Count" repre- 

 sents the number of skins reported by the employes of said Company 

 as the same were counted when being packed in casks for shipment to 

 London; and the fourth column entitled "London Sales" represents 

 the number of skins, as counted by C. M. Lampson & Company and so 

 accounted to us after the sale and delivery of the same for said Alaska 

 Commercial Company; all reference herein made to skins refer to the 

 fur-seal skins taken on the Pribilof Islands under the lease of said 

 Islands to the Alaska Commercial Company. 



And deponent further says : 



That the seals killed between August 1st and the first to the tenth day 

 of June following were for food; that the skins of such 

 for food.° f seals klUed sea l s killed which were received were counted in the 

 quota for the year following said first day of August; 

 tbatis, the fiscal year of the Alaska Commercial Company for sealing 

 began on or about the first day of August in each and every year of their 

 lease of the Pribilof Islands, and the column entitled "Island Count" 

 therefore represents the skins received during such fiscal year and 

 shipped from said Islands; that the tables of seal killings attached to my 

 affidavits dated, respectively, May 11 and May 12, 1892, represent the 

 number of seals killed and received by said Company during each calen- 

 dar year from 1871 to 1889, inclusive; that the 3,448 skins put down in 

 the "Island Count" for the year 1870 do not appear in the aforesaid 

 tables, as they were taken before the commencement of the actual work- 

 ings of the lease of the Pribilof Islands to the said Alaska Commercial 

 Company. 



Comparative statement of different counts of Alaska sealskins from 1870 to 18S9, inclusive. 



Max Heilbronner. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me this 18th day of November, A . D. 

 1892. 

 [seal.] Clement Bennett, 



Notary Public, 



