3'.)4 APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



Trf.asuky Depaiitment, Office of the Secretary, 



Hashing ton, D. C, May 7, 1874. 



Sir: I transmit herewith a copy of an Act of Congress, approved the 22iid April, 

 187i, authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to appoint a Special Agent, and the 

 Secretary of the Navy to detail an officer of the navy, for the purpose of visiting 

 the various trading stations and Indian villages in the Territory of Alaska, the Seal 

 Islands, and the large islands to the north of them, in Behring Sea, and collecting 

 and reporting all possible authentic information upon the present condition of the 

 seal Hsherles of Alaska, «&c. 



You are informed that Mr. Henry W. Elliott and Lientenant Washburn Maynard, 

 United States navy, have been assigned to the duty contemplated by the Act of 

 Congress referred to above, and you are authorized and directed, iipon their applica- 

 tion, to receive them on board the revenue-cutter " Reliance," under your command, 

 and convey them to such points in the region named as they may desire to visit in 

 the discharge of the duties imposed upon them by said Act. It will accordingly be 

 necessary for yon to make provision for supplies for an extended cruize. 



I am, &.C. 



(Signed) F. A. Sawyer, Acting Secretary. 



Captain J. G. Baker, U. S. R. M., 



Commanding Eerenue-cutter "Reliance," Port Townsend, W. T. 



Treasury Department, Wasliington, D. C, May 5,1875. 



Sir : Information derived from letters of the Collector of Customs at Sitka, Alaska, 

 from the Reports of Special Agents of the Department, and more especially from a 

 recent communication from the Secretary of War, makes it appear necessary that a 

 vessel should be dispatched at as early a date as possible to the waters of Alaska, to 

 aid in the suppression of smuggling there. 



You will therefore direct Captain Scammon, commanding the revenue-steamer 

 "Wolcott," at your port, to immediately take the necessary steps to prepare said 

 vessel for a cruise to Sitka and such other parts of the coast of Alaska as upon con- 

 ference with the Collector at the latter-named port it may be considered necessary 

 to visit, and, everything being in readiness, you will instruct him to proceed with 

 the "Wolcott" to Sitka, and, upon his arrival, to report to the Collector there for 

 duty, and to obey any orders the latter may give him as to cruising in those waters 

 comjiatible with the purposes of his voyage, and not inconsistent with his returning 

 to Port Townsend by the 1st September next. 



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I am, &c. 



(Signed) Chas. F. Conajs'T, Acting Secretary. 



Henry A. Webster, Esq., 



Collector of Customs, Port Townsend, W. T. 



68 Treasury Department, Office of the Secretary, 



Washlngion, D. C, April 20, 1877. 

 Sir: The Department having determined to dispatch the revenne-steamer " Rush," 

 under your command, to cruize in the waters of Alaska and among the Seal Islands 

 for the protection of the sea-otter hunting-grounds and the seal tisheries, as well as 

 the revenue from customs, you are directed immediately upon receipt hereof to take 

 on board that vessel sufficient supplies of provisions, «S:c., for a live months' cruize, 

 and such quantities of fuel and water as can be conveniently stored on board, and 

 leave San Francisco, with your command, not later than the Ist Way next, for the 

 waters referred to, and make the best of your way to the places hereafter designated. 



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You will also touch at Fort AVrangel and Sitka, and leave at those places the 

 copies of printed orders* relating to the protection of the Government interests in 

 those waters which will be furnished you, and at Sitka you will confer with the 

 Collector of Customs in relation to matters pertaining to the collection of the rev- 

 enue in his district. 



* These and other printed orders hereinafter referred to will be found at pp. 100- 

 102 of vol. i of the Appendix to the Case of the United States. 



