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APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CASE OP GREAT BRITAIN. 



use of small fur-seal skins for their 

 clotliing: is, of course, to prevent 

 tlieir falling into the hands of for- 

 eigners. 



(Signed) 



V. Klupfel, 

 Presiding Officer. 

 N. Tebenkof, 

 V. Zavoiko, 



Members. 



the savages would accustom them- 

 selves to the use of seal- skins for 

 their clotliing, and thereby, so far 

 as possible, the sale of them to 

 foreign vessels would be prevented. 



(Signed) V. Klupfel, 



Presiding Officer. 

 N. Tebenkof, 

 V. Zavoiko, 



Members. 



No. 26. 



Letter from the Board of Adminis- 

 tration of the Russian-American 

 Company to Gajdain of the First 

 Bank and Knight Stepan Vassilie- 

 vitch VoyevodsJcy, Chief Manager 

 ' of the Russian- American Colonies. 

 Written from St. Petersburg, June 

 5, 1857. 



In reply to your Excellency's 

 despatch isTo. 41 of the 9th March, 

 concerning the shipment of furs to 

 New York and Shanghae, the Board 

 of Administration has the honour 

 to inform you that the annual de- 

 mand for fur-seal skins in Eussia 

 has now increased to 15,000 dry 

 skins, of which 5,000 are for the 

 Kiakhta market; at this place only 

 2,000 beavers will be required. 

 The remaining number of fur-seals, 

 12,000 or more, principally salted 

 (in which shape they are preferred), 

 you will dispatch in the autumn to 

 Messrs. Lobach and Scheppler, of 

 New York, immediately after the 

 arrival of the ship from the dis- 

 tricts, without subjecting the skins 

 to any kind of treatment at New 

 Archangel, leaving them just as 

 they are when they arrive from the 

 districts, and in the same x)ackages. 



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No. 26. 



Letter from the Board of Adminis- 

 tration of the Russian- American 

 Company to Captain of the First 

 Rank and. Knight Stepan Vassilie- 

 vitch Voyevodsky, Chief Manager 

 of the Russian- American Colonies. 

 Written from St. Petersburg, June 

 5, 1857. 



In reply to your Excellency's 

 despatch No. 41 of the 9th March, 

 with regard to shipping furs to 

 New York and Shanghae, the Board 

 of Administration has the honour 

 to inform you that the annual de- 

 maud for seal-skins in Eussia has 

 now risen to 15,000, 5,000 of which 

 are to be shipped to Kiachta. Only 

 2,000 river- beaver skins are re- 

 quired for Kiachta; the remaining 

 number of seal- skins, say uj) to 

 12,000 and more, preferably salted 

 ones, which are valued more highly 

 there, you are instructed to send 

 to New York to Messrs. Lobach and 

 Shepler, in the autumn, immedi- 

 ately after the arrival of the ves- 

 sels from the districts, without sub- 

 jecting them to any preparations 

 at New Archangel, and leaving 

 them in the same condition and 

 packed in the same way in which 

 tiiey are received from the districts. 



With regard to the river-beaver 

 skins the Board of Administration, 

 although it has received informa- 

 tion that the beaver-skins have 

 now fallen in the market at New 

 Y^'ork to 2 r. 72 k. per skin, it still 

 requests you, as the prices are not 



