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feed to Seattle for fuel and supplies, and there await further iustructione from the 

 Department. 



Yon will telej.';raph the dates of your departure from San Francisco, your arrival 

 and departure irom Seattle, and your return to either of the ports named. 

 Very respectfully, 



(Signed) O. L. Spaulding, Assistant Secretary. 



Captain M. A. Healy, 



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



Treasury Department, Office of the Secretary, 



Washington, D. C, March 17, 1891. 



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

 your command to Alaska, you are hereby clothed with full power and instructed to 

 enforce the laws against the importation of distilled spirits and fire-arms into that 

 Territory, and to make arrests of all persons and seize all vessels found violating 

 the snnie. 



In this connection your attention is invited to Section 1955 of the Revised Stat- 

 utes, authorizing the seizure of the articles and of the vessels (if the value of the 

 prohibited articles exceeds 400 dollars) engaged in the traffic. 



You will exercise great care in making arrests and seizing articles, and see that 

 you have sufficient evidence on which to convict the parties engaged in this unlawful 

 business. 



Respectfully yours, 



(Signed) O. L. Spaulding, Assistant Secretary. 



Captain M. A. Healy, 



Commanding Revenue-steamer "Bear,'" San Francisco, California. 



Treasury Department, Office of the Secretary, 



Washington, D. C, Mai/ 9, 1891. 



Sir: You are informed that the President has designated the revenue-steamer 

 " Rush," under your command, to cruize in the waters of Alaska Territory for the 

 protection of the seal fisheries and the interests of the Government on the Seal 

 Islands and the sea otter hunting-grounds. You are accordingly clothed with full 

 power, and are hereby directed to enforce the provisions of law contained in Section 

 1956 of tlie Revised Statutes, as supplemented by section 3 of the Act of the 2nd 

 March, 1889, except as provided in Sections 1960 and 1902 of said Statutes, amended 

 by Act of Congress a])proved the 24th March, 1874, and in Department Regula- 

 ' tions of the 2nd April, 1879. 



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You are informed that in the event of any seizures being made the United States 

 District Court at Sitka has jurisdiction over such cases. 



Herewith are transmitted copies of the President's Proclamation of the 4th April, 

 1891, and of the Law relating to the salmon fisheries, for distribution, as far as may 

 be practicable, to parties aliected thereby. 



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80 Special instructions in regard to the protection of fur-bearing animals in the 



Territory of Alaska, or the waters thereof, will be sent to you, either by tele- 

 graph or by mail, before sailing. 



Yon will remain in the vicinity of the Seal Islands and Onnalaska until the 20th 

 September next, or until the return of tlie steamer " Bear," which vessel is expected 

 to arrive at Onnalaska from the Arctic early in September next, and you will then 

 return, with your command, to San Francisco. 



You will advise the Department by telegraph of the date of leaving San Francisco, 

 and of your retuiu to that port. 

 Respectfully yours, 



(Signed) Charles Foster, Secretary. 



Captain W. C. COULSON, 



Commanding Revenue-steamer "Rush" San Francisco, California, 



