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six months' cruize, and such quantities of fuel and water as can be conveniently 

 stored on board, aud leave San Francisco with your command not later than the 

 25th instant for the waters named, and make the best of your way to the places 

 hereinafter designated. 



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Having supplied the "Corwin" with coal, yon will cruize actively with said vessel 

 amongst the Aleutian Islands, and in Norton and Kotzebue Sounds, going as far as 

 Point Barrow, if found practicable, until the 20th October next, and will strictly 

 enforce the instructions 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 seamen 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 cruise to the westward, if practicable, as far as 

 Atton, and touch at the principal otter-hunting stations between that island and 

 Ounalaska. 



Very respectfully, 



(Signed) Chas. J. Folgeb, Secretary. 



Lieutenant M. A. Healy, 



Commanding Revenue- steamer " Corwin," San Francisco, California. 



Treasury Department, Office of the Secretary, 



fVashiiigton, May 11, 1883. 



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

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

 the provisions of law aud protection of the interests of the Government on the Seal 

 Islands aud the sea-otter hunting-grounds, and of Alaska generally, you are directed 

 to take on board that vessel, without delay, sufficient supplies of provisions for a 

 five mouths' cr\iize, and such quantities of fuel and water as can be conveniently 

 stowed on board, and to leave San Francisco with your command by Monday, the 

 21st instant, if practicable, for the waters named, and make the best of your way to 



the places hereinafter designated. 

 72 You will touch at Departure Bay, and take on board all the coal that the 



"Corwin" can carry consistently with safety, bil s for which, properly certi- 

 iied, you will transmit to the Department. You will also touch at Fort Wrangel 

 and Sitka, and leave at those places the copies of printed orders relating to the pro- 

 tection of the Government interests in those waters which will be furnished you. 



Having supplied said vessel with coal, you will cruize actively with your com- 

 mand amongst the Aleutian Islands and in Norton and Kotzebue Sounds, going as far 

 as Point Barrow, if found practicable, until the 20tli Octolier next, and will strictly 

 enforce the instructions contained in the printed orders and the letter of authority 

 of this date. To this end you will visit St. Paul and St. George at least twice dur- 

 ing the season, and cover in your cruizing the sea-otter hunting-ground from Kodiak 

 to Ounalaska, leaving an officer and two seamen 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 f;ir as Attou, and 

 touch at the principal otter-hunting stations between that island and- Ounalaska. 

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Verj- respectfully, 



(Signed) Chas. J. Folgeb, Secretary. 



Captain M. A. Healy, 



Commanding Bevenue-steamer "Corwin," San Francisco, California. 



Treasury Department, Office of the Secretary, 



Washington, May 11, 1883. 



Sir: Referring to Department letter of this date, directing you to proceed with 

 the revenue-steamer "Corwin," under your command, to Alaska, on special duty in 

 connection with the seal fisheries, you are hereby clothed with full powers to enforce 

 the law contained in the provisions of Section 1956 of the United States Revised 

 Statutes, and instructed to seize all vessels and arrest and deliver to the proper 

 .111 tlioii ties any or all persims wIkhii you may detect violating the law referred to, 

 alter due notice shall have been yiveu. 



