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TESTIMONY. 



Statement of skins The followiug tabulated statement prepared by me 

 pauyfiomi87Uoi89i! from tliosc accounts sLows the fur-seal skins pur- 

 chased and shipped to the company by its agents at 

 Kadiak and Unalaska and from miscellaneous sources from 1871 to 



The district covered by the company's agency at Unalaska embraces 



the stations at Unga, Bolkoffski, Sannak, Akoutau, 



Districts covered by Moslirovia, Umuak, Atka, and one or two smaller 



company s agencies at , r ti i • i> i i xi • x x- 



Unalaska anci Kadiak. posts. I am credibly iiiloruied by tliose cognizant ot 

 the business and believe that a large majority of the 

 skins from this agency were captured in the North Pacific. The dis- 

 trict embraced by the Kadiak Agency includes the stations at upper 

 and lower Kenai, Prince William Sound, and several trading posts 

 on Kadiak Island, and without doubt all the skins from this agency 

 were caught in the iS^orth Pacific. A large majority of all the skins 

 from both places were pups a few months old. The 

 tL^eof pups"^ *^'°^ skins nnder the head of miscellaneous were bought 

 from different vessels which brought them to San 

 Francisco. I think they were all or nearly all caught in the North 

 Pacific. 



Max Heilbronner. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me this 2d day of May, A. D., 1892. 

 [L. s.] Clement Bennett, 



Notary Public. 



Deposition of George Lichcs, furrier, of San Francisco. 



Experience. 



pelagic catch. 



State of California, 



City and County of San Francisco, ss: 

 George Liebcs, having been duly sworn, deposes and says: My age 

 is 25. I reside in San Francisco. I am a furrier and dealer in dressed 

 and raw furs by occupation. I have been engaged in 

 that business for the last six years. I have been going 

 to Victoria for the last two years for the purpose of buying both land 

 and sea furs. In 1890 I examined 14,000 fur-seal skins that were 

 brought down on a tender from Sand Point, Alaska. That was the 

 entire catch of the Victoria sealing fleet up to tliat time, the middle of 

 June. It was transferred at Sand l*oiiit so that the schooners which 

 had the catch on board could enter the Bering Sea clear of all skins, 

 in case they might be overtaken and searched by revenue cut- 



