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42 (0.)—Reecipts of Agents Lavender and Murray. 
ISLAND OF Sr. PAUL, BEHRING’S SEA, ALASKA, 
August 9, 1890. 
This is to certify that 16,874 fur-seal skins have this day been shipped on board the 
steam-ship ‘‘Arago,” Captain Thomas commanding, and consigned to the North 
American Commercial Company of San Francisco. This being the total catch on St. 
Paul Island for the season of 1890. 
(Signed) JosEpH MURRAY, 
Assistant Treasury Agent. 
ISLAND OF ST. PAUL, ALASKA, August 9, 1890. 
Received this day on board the steam-ship ‘‘Arago,” for the North American Com- 
mercial Company of San l’rancisco, 16,874 fur-seal skins. 
(Signed) H. C. THOMAS, 
Captain-commanding ‘‘Arago.” 
ISLAND OF ST, ———, BEHRING’S SEA, ALASKA 
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August 11, 1890. 
This is to certify that 4,121 fur-seal skins have this day been shipped on board the 
steam-ship “Arago,” Captain Thomas commanding, and consigned to the North 
American Commercial Company of San Francisco. This being the total catch on 
St. George Island for the season of 1890. , 
(Signed) ALBERT W. LAVENDER, 
Assistant Treasury Agent. 
ISLAND OF ST. GEORGE, ALASKA, August  , 1890. 
Received this day on board the steam-ship ‘‘Arago,” for the North American Com- 
mercial Company of San Francisco, 4,121 fur-seal skins. 
(Signed) H. C. THOMAS, 
Captain commanding ‘‘Arago.” 
WASHINGTON, D.C., April 29, 1890. 
In case of absolute necessity, caused by scarcity of natives or otherwise, use best 
judgment and discretion in allowing killing seals for skins after the 20th July. 
(Signed) W. WINDOM, Secretary. 
CHARLES J. GOFT, 
Treasury Agent, Seal Islands, 
(Care Collector of Customs, San Francisco, California). 
(P.)—Protest of George R. Tingle. 
NortH AMERICAN COMMERCIAL COMPANY, 
St. Paul Island, Alaska, July 18, 1890. 
Sir: Your communication of the 8th instant was received, in which you notify 
me, as Superintendent of the North American Commercial Company, that said Com- 
pany must cease killing seals on the 20th instant. The delay in replying thereto 
was with the hope that, as a result of our several verbal discussions of the propriety 
or necessity of your order, you would be convinced of the untenable position you 
have assumed and revoke the order, thus allowing the lessees to go on with their 
business as the law provides. Your announcement to me this evening that you will 
not revoke your order, and that your decision is final, leaves me but one thing more 
to do, viz., file this protest against the wisdom, justice, or necessity of enforcing on 
the lessees what we consider an arbitrary abridgment of our rights under and by 
virtue of the law. 
The lease was executed by the Government of the United States in pursuance of 
Chapter III, Title 23, Revised Statutes. This law authorized the Secretary of the 
Treasury to prescribe from time to time the Rules and Regulations by which 
43 the Treasury Agents in charge of the seal fisheries shall be governed. There 
is nowhere in the Law any provision authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury, 
