APPENDIX to COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 395 



From that port yon will proceed direcfc to Kortiak and thence to Ounalaska, touch- 

 ing at Ouiiga and Belcovslci eu route, iind posting at each of those places copies of 

 the orders mentioned above, and conforming to instructions communicated to you in 

 Dejjartmeut letter of even date herewith. 



Having supplied the "Rush" with coal, you will cruize actively with said vessel 

 among the Aleutian Islands until about the 10th September, and Avill strictly enforce 

 the instructions of the Department contained in the j)rinted orders and the letter of 

 authority referred to above. To this end you will visit St. Paul and St. George at 

 least twice during the season, and cover in your cruizing the sea-otter hunting- 

 grounds from Kodiak to Ounalaska, and you will in the course of the season make 

 one cruize to the westwaid, if practicable, as far as Attou, and touch at the princi- 

 pal otter-hunting stations between that island and Ounalaska, 



I am, «fec. 



(Signed) John Sherman, 



Secretary of the Treasury. 

 Captain Geo. W. Bailey, U. S. R. M., 



Commanding Revenue-steamer "liichard Bush," 



San Francisco, California. 



Treasury Department, Office of the Secretary, 



Wushingion, D. C, June 28, 1878. 

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

 under your command, to cruize in the waters of Alaska for the enforcement of the 

 prov isions of law and protection of the interests of the Government on the Seal Islands 

 and sea-otter hunting-grounds of Alaska generally, you are directed to take on bfiard 

 that vessel, without delay, sufficient supplies of provisious, &c., for a hve months' 

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

 and lea\e Sau Francisco, with your command, by the 10th proximo, if practicable, 

 for the waters named, and make the best of your way to the places hereinafter 

 designated. 



You will also touch at Fort Wrangel and Sitka, and leave at those places copies of 

 printed orders relating to the protection of the Government interests in those waters 

 will be furnished you. 



From the last-named port you will proceed direct to Kodiak, and thence to Ouna- 

 laska, toucliing at ( >unga and Belcovski en route, and posting at each of these places 

 copies of the orders mentioned above. 



Having supplied tlie "Rush " with coal you will cruize actively with said vessel 

 amongst the Aleutian Islands until tlie last of October, if practicable, and will 

 strictly enforce the instructions of tbe Department contained in the printed orders 

 and the letter of authority referred to above. To this end you will visit St. Paul 

 and St. George at least twice during the season, and cover in your cruizing the sea- 

 otter hunting-grounds from Kodiak to Ounalaska, leaving an officer and two men 

 on Otter Island during the sealing season to prevent the killing of seals on that 

 island; and you will, in the course of the season, make one cruize to the westward, 

 if practicable, as far as Attou, and touch at the principal otter-hunting stations 

 between that island and Ounalaska. 



Very respectfully, 



(Signed) John Sherman, Secretary. 



Cajitain G. \V. Bailky, 



Commanding Revenue-steamer "Richard Rush," 



San Francisco, California. 



69 Treasury Dkpartmknt, Office of the Secretary, 



Washington, April 21, 1879. 

 Sir: During the cruize of the revenue steamer '■ Rush," under your conunand, in 

 Alaskan waters, the ensuing season, you will cause soundings, bearings, geograph- 

 ical and astronomical observations, notes on tides and currents, and the position of 



