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APPENDIX. 
JOINT RESOLUTION UNDER CONSIDERATION. 
{H. J. Res. 124, Fifty-eighth Congress, second session.] 
JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing and directing the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to suspend at 
once and indefinitely the killing of fur seals on the Pribilof Islands of Alaska. 
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in 
Congress assembled, That the Secretary of Commerce and Labor be, and he is hereby, 
authorized and directed to suspend all killing of male fur seals on the Pribilof group 
of seal islands of Alaska by the lessees thereof, known as the North American Com- 
mercial Company. Said suspension of killing shall be made at once and indefinitely: 
Provided, That the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may permit the annual killing, 
under his direction and supervision, to provide food for the natives of said islands, 
the number of three thousand five hundred young male seals on Saint Paul Island 
and two thousand on Saint George Island, the skins of which shall be carefully pre- 
served and sold by said Secretary of Commerce and Labor. The proceeds of said 
sale shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States. 
TABLES SUBMITTED BY MR. HITCHCOCK. 
Statement showing the number of breeding seals on the islands during each season from 1899 
to 1903, inclusive, according to the counts made by the agents. 
On St. Paul. On St. George. Total. 
Year. 
Bulls. Cows. Bulls. Cows. Bulls. Cows. 
38, 693 72, 082 880 17,179 4,573 89, 261 
3, 433 75, 152 877 17, 980 4,310 98, 182 
38,160 75, 565 637 14,671 3, 797 90, 236 
2, 381 80, 052 456 |. 14, 830 2, 837 94, 882 
1,979 82, 649 364 14, 647 2, 343 97, 296 | 
Partly estimated. 
Statement showing the number of skins taken on the islands during the years. 1899 to 1908, 
inclusive. & 
Number of skins taken— 
Year. On St. On St. 
Paul. | George. | Total. 
Ended Aug. 10— : 
1899... b 14, 648 2,585 17, 183 
17, 159 4,766 21, 925 
17, 445 5, 621 23, 066 
18, 930 8, 252 22,182 
16, 245 3, 092 19, 837 
«The statistics here given represent the number of skins taken during the several years to which 
they relate, and not the number of skins shipped during those years. As it is customary to hold over 
a portion of the skins from one year to another, the annual record of shipments varies somewhat from 
that of skins taken. ; i 
b The record of skins taken on St. Paul during the year ended August 10, 1899, was not given in 
the agent’s report for that year, but the number here stated has been computed from the record of 
skins held over and shipped. 
