FUR-SEAL FISHERIES OF ALASKA. 363 



Additional names of those who share in the seal catch of 1887. 



RECAPITULATION. 



Able men 35 



Healthy old men 6 



Able boys 7 



Young boys 7 



Invalid and feeble boys 4 



Consumptive men 1 



Confirmed invalid 1 



Names on the roll of 1887 61 



Less Vieele Sedwick 1 



Note.— These sixty-one natives do but little more than half the work of taking the skins and pre- 

 paring them for shipment, the remainder being done by Americans and Ooualaskans, whose pay up 

 to this time has not been deducted from the proceeds of the catch at 40 cents ijer skin, paid by the 

 Alaska Commercial Company to the community. 



U. S. Revenue Marine Steamer Bear, 



San Francisco, Decemhcr 20, 1888. 



Sir : lu pursuance of your order of June 14, 1888, a court composed of Lieutenants 

 Buhner, Dunwoody, Eugiueers Churchill and Hutchiu, and Surgeon Biatton was 

 convened at the Government house on St. George Island, to inquire into the nature of 

 the charges preferred by Mr. William Gavitt, special agent of the Treasury for that 

 island, against the Alaska Connuercial Company and its agents, and we respectfully 

 submit the following report: 



We regard the charges in the main frivolous and of a merely personal nature. 



As regards the charges of a really serious nature, the evidence in support was not 

 satisfactory, while no evidence in rebuttal was introduced. 



