STATEMENTS AS TO SEALSKINS. 415 



STATEMENT OF C. M. LAMPSON & CO. 



64 Queen Street, E. C, 



London, 8th Beer., 1892. 

 W€ hereby certify that no bundle of fur-seal skins shipped to us by 

 the Alaska Commercial Company ever contained more than two skins. 

 We further certify that, to the best of our information and belief, all 

 sealskins taken by the Alaska Commercial Company from the Pribilof 

 Islands, throughout the term of their lease, were consigned to and sold 

 by us. 



O. M. Lampson & Co. 



statements of alfred fraser. 

 a. — concerning the number of skins in a bundle. 



50 Wall St., New York City, 



December 7, 1892. 

 I hereby certify that during the years from 1870 to 1876 I personally 

 supervised the unpacking and counting of all sealskins received by 

 Messrs. C. M. Lampson & Company in London from the Alaska Com- 

 mercial Company. I have in this way seen many thousands of bundles 

 opened, but never saw or heard of one that contained more than two 

 skins. 



Alfred Fraser. 



City and County of New York, ss: 



On this 28th day of December, 1892, personally appeared before me 

 Alfred Fraser, the person whose name is signed to the foregoing, and 

 acknowledged to me that he executed the same. 



[seal.] Edwin B. Woods, 



Notary Public, Kings Co.; Certificate filed in N. Y. Co. 



B. — CONCERNING THE NUMBER OF SKINS SOLD BY C. M. LAMPSON & 

 CO. FOR ACCOUNT OF THE ALASKA COMMERCIAL COMPANY. 



Exhibit A, attached to my affidavit verified April 1, 1892, contains a 

 statement of the salted fur-seal skins sold in London between the years 

 1870 and 1891. In order to deduce from this statement the number of 

 fur-sealskins taken by the Alaska Commercial Company under its lease 

 of the Pribilof Islands, this statement should be modified as follows : 



(a) From the number of skins therein stated to have been sold in the 

 year 1870 there should be deducted about 5,900 skins which were taken 

 from the Pribilof Islands prior to the time when the said lease took 

 effect upon the islands. 



(b) The number of skins therein stated to have been sold in 1874 

 should be 99,150. Through a clerical error I originally gave this num- 

 ber as 90,150. 



(c) The skins therein stated to have been sold in 1890 and 1891 were 

 not taken from the Pribilof Islands by the Alaska Commercial Com- 

 pany. 



I annex hereto press copy of statement of skins sold by C. M. Lamp- 

 son & Co. for account of the Alaska Commercial Company from 1871 

 to 1884, which statement was prepared at London in the year 1884. 



Alfred Fraser. 



