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esty’s Government to agree formally with that of the United States as 
to a modus vivendi, or to send cruizers with instructions to prevent the 
sealing-vessels from entering Behring’s Sea. 
12 APPENDIX. 
No. 1. 
Sir J. Pauncefote to the Marquis of Salisbury.—( Received March 2.) 
WASHINGLON, February 20, 1891. 
My Lorp: I have the honour to inclose copies of Reports of Special 
Treasury Agent C. J. Goff, and Assistant Treasury Agents A. W. 
Lavender, S. R. Nettleton, and J. Murray, with accompanying docu- 
ments, concerning the condition of affairs in the Seal Islands of Alaska 
and the fur-seal fisheries for 1890. 
These Reports have been transmitted to the Senate by the Treasury 
Department in response to a Resolution of that body, but your Lord- 
ship will perceive that they do not include the Report of Professor 
Elliott, to which reference has frequently been made, and which, up to 
the present time, has been withheld from publication. 
I am, &e. 
(Signed) JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE. 
{Inclosure in No. 1.] 
(51st Congress, 2nd Session.—Ex. Doc. No. 49.) 
SENATE. 
Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in response to a Resolution 
of the Senate, Reports concerning the Condition of the Seal Islands of Alaska. 
FEBRUARY 10, 1891.—Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be 
printed. 
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, 
Washington, D. C., February 9, 1891, 
Sir: In pursuance of the Resolutions of the Senate of the United States dated the 
10th and 12th ultimo respectively, I have the honour to transmit herewith copies of 
the following Reports of Special Treasury Agent Charles J. Goff, and Assistant Treas- 
ury Agents A. W. Lavender, 8. R. Nettleton, and Joseph Murray, with their accom- 
panying documents, concerning the condition of affairs in the Seal Islands of Alaska, 
and relating to the fur-seal fisheries for the year 1890, &c., viz.: 
1. Letter of Charles J. Goff, dated July 31, 1890, submitting Annual Report, with . 
the following inclosures: 
(A.) Annual Report, 1890, dated July 31, 1890. 
(B.) Report of Joseph Murray, dated July 31, 1890. 
(C.) Report of A. W. Lavender, Assistant Treasury Agent, dated July 26, 1890. 
(D.) Statement of seals killed for year ended July 20, 1890, on St. Paul Island. 
(E.) Statement of seals killed for year ended July 20, 1890, on St. George Island. 
(F.) Statement of seals killed for food on St. Paul Island during the year ended 
May 21, 1890. 
(G.) Statement of seals killed in 1889 on St. Paul Island by the Alaska Commercial 
Company, and by the North American Commercial Company in 1890; also daily 
Weather Report. 
(H.) Statement of skins accepted on Seal Islands from 1870 to 1890. 
(1.) Statement of liabilities of North American Commercial Company to natives 
of St. Paul Island to August 1, 1890. 
13 (J.) Account current of North American Commercial Company with United 
States on Island of St. Paul, 1890. 
