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APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



catch may be limited to such a 

 number as will not interfere with a 

 regular increase, until a greater 

 demand has again been created. 

 To this end the Board of Managers 

 is devoting all its energies. 

 (Signed) Y. Klupfel, 



Presiding Officer. 

 A. Etholin, 



F. KUSOF, 



Baron Weangell, 



Members, 



rule, only in such numbers as will 

 not affect tlieir increase until a 

 greater demand sets in, for which 

 the Board of Administration is 

 making constant exertions. 



(Signed) Y. Klupfel, 



Presiding Officer. 

 A. Etholin, 

 K. KusoF, 

 Baron Wrangel, 



Members. 



No. 25. 



Letter from the Board of Adminis- 

 tration of the Russian-American 

 Company to Captain of the Sec- 

 ond EanJc Prince 3XaJcsutof, Chief 

 Manager of the Russian- Ameri- 

 can Colonies. Written from St. 

 Petersburg, November 8, 1854. 



At the present time the market 

 for fur-seal skins is limited to the 

 number of 43,000, namely, in Is'ew 

 York, from 20,000 to 21,000; at St. 

 Petersburg, from 15,000 to 16,01)0, 

 and at Irkutsk, from 5,000 to 0,000 

 skins, wbich must all be of the 

 best quality, i. e., full-grown males, 

 half-grown males, large and medi- 

 um bachelors. 



The whole number sent to New 

 York may be salted, but the buy- 

 ers demand that all fat or blubber 

 be removed very carefully previous 

 to salting, for the better preserva- 

 tion and further preparation of the 

 skins. Theskinsmay beshippedto 

 New York by San Francisco, prefer- 

 ably as supplementary freight on 

 the clippers of the New York and 

 California trade, as in this manner 

 they can be forwarded quite cheap- 

 ly. At St. Petersburg only dried 

 skins are in demand. These should 

 be shipped in our own vessels, but 

 in the absence of such, they may 

 also be shipped by San Francisco 

 or Yictoria^ preferably on shijis 

 bound for London, where they will 

 be consigned to Pelly and Co., or 

 to Hamburg, consigned to Strong 



No. 25. 



Letter from the Board of Adminis- 

 tratio7i of the Russian-American 

 Company to Captain of the Sec- 

 ond Rank Prince MaJcsutof Chief 

 Manager of the Rnssian-Ameri- 

 can Colonies. Written from St. 

 Petersburg, November 8, 1854. 



At present the sale of seal-skins 

 has risen to 43,000, namely, 20,000 

 to 21,000 at New York, 15,000 to 

 16,000 at St. Petersburg, and 5,000 

 to 6,000 at Irkutsk. They must be 

 of the best quality, that is to say, 

 large and medium bulls, young 

 bulls, and bachelors. 



The whole quantity sent to New 

 York may be salted, but the pur- 

 chasers request that in salting them 

 the oil be removed from them as 

 carefully as possible, for the better 

 preservation and for the further 

 dressing of the skins. They nuist 

 be sent there by way of San Fran- 

 cisco, preferably, to complete the 

 cargoes of vessels going to New 

 York, because by this arrangement 

 the delivery of them will cost much 

 less. 



Only dried seal-skins are in de- 

 mand at St. Petersburg, and they 

 must be sent there by our own ves- 

 sels going round the world, or, in 

 the absence of these, by way of 

 San Francisco or Yictoria; but, 

 preferably, to comj^lete cargo on 

 vessels going to London, to Mr. 



