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tions of the 26th March last, to be shipped to Collector at San Francisco, and there- 
upon report facts to Department for determination. 
(Signed) Gro. C. TICHENOR, Assistant Secretary. 
CHARLES J. GOFF, 
Treasury Agent, Seal Islands, 
(Care Collector of Customs, San Francisco, California), 
25 ALASKA COMMERCIAL COMPANY OF SAN FRANCISCO, 
St. George Island, Alaska, May 26, 1890. 
Str: Herewith I would ask permission to ship, per steamer ‘‘ Dora,” 482 fur-seals, 
at present stored at our village salt-house, and 109 at our salt-house at Zapadine. 
These 591 fur-seals were killed by the natives for food during the winter 1889 to 
1890, and have been salted and cared for by the Alaska Commercial Company before 
the transfer of its property to the North American Commercial Company, the present 
holders of the lease for the Seal Islands. 
I have, &c. 
(Signed) RUDOLPH NEUMANN, 
General Agent, Alaska Commercial Company. 
Hon. CHARLES J. GOFF, 
Uniled States Treasury Agent in charge of the 
Seal Islands St. Paul and St. George. 
ALASKA COMMERCIAL COMPANY OF SAN FRANCISCO, 
St. Paul Island, Alaska, May 31, 1890. 
Sir: Herewith I would ask permission to ship, per steamer ‘ Dora,’ 3,196 fur-seals, 
794 stagy skins being included in this number, and stored at present at our village 
salt-house, and 298 at our salt-house at North-east Point. 
These 3,494 fur-skins were killed by the natives for food during the winter of 
1889 to 1890, and have been salted and cared for by the Alaska Commercial Company 
before the transfer of its property to the North American Commercial Company, the 
present holders of the lease for the Seal Islands. 
I have, &c. 
(Signed) RuDOLPH NEUMANN, 
. General Agent, Alaska Commercial Company. 
Hon. CHARLES J. Gorr, 
United States Treasury Agent in charge of the 
Seal Islands St. Paul and St. George. 
Sir: In reply to your communications bearing date the 26th and 31st May, respec- 
tively, asking permission to remove the fur-seal skins now in the salt-houses on St. 
Paul and St. George Islands, I will say, in pursuance to instructions received by 
me from the Secretary of the Treasury, I will have to respectfully decline to allow 
you to remove the skins in question, and herewith inform you that all of the said 
skins will be shipped per United States eutter, care Collector of Customs, San Fran- 
cisco, California, to be disposed of by the Department as the Secretary may deem 
advisable. : 
(Signed) CHARLES J. GOFF, Treasury Agent. 
Hon. RupoLPH NEUMANN, 
General Agent, Alaska Commercial Company. 
NortH AMERICAN COMMERCIAL COMPANY, 
St. Paul Island, July 8, 1890. 
DEAR Str: The North American Commercial Company will accept as part of their 
quota of 60,000 seal-skins for 1890 such of the food skins of 1889 as they may find 
on examination to be merchantable and acceptable to them. 
The skins being now stored in our warehouses on this and St. George Island, we 
hereby claim the privilege of availing ourselves of the offer made us by the Hon- 
ourable Secretary of the Treasury at Washington, as contained in and being a part 
of his instructions to you dated the 26th March, 1890, a copy of which by his request 
you were kind enough to furnish the Company, which instructions in our opinion 
were not changed by any subsequent order made by the Honourable Secretary, so 
far as our right to accept food skins is concerned. If the food skins claimed by us 
