i Ex. Do< 

 2d Session. ) \ No. 50. 



40th Congress, ( SENATE. i Ex. Doc. 



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MESSAGE 



OF THE 



^'PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, 



COMMUNICATING, 



In compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the lith instant, information 

 in relation to any application by any party for exclusive privileges in con- 

 nection with hunting, trading, and the fisheries in Alaska. 



Aikm. 27, 1868. — Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be 



printed. 



To the Senate of the United States : 



In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 14th of April, instant, call- 

 ing for information relative to any application by any party for exclusive priv- 

 ileges in connection with hunting, trading, and the fisheries in Alaska, I trans- 

 mit herewith the report of the Secretary cf State on the subject, with its accom- 

 panying papers. 



ANDREW JOITNSON. 



Washington, April IS, 1S6S. 



Washington, April IS, 1S68. 



The Secretary of State, to whom was referred the resolution of the Senate 

 passed on the 14th of April, instant, to the effect that the President be requested 

 to communicate to the Senate copies of any papers in the Department of State 

 relating to any application by any party for exclusive privileges in connection 

 with the hunting, trading, and the fisheries, in our recent purchase of territory 

 from Russia, and whether any steps have been taken or acts done tending to 

 the extension of any such exclusive privileges, or the sale of lands in said ter- 

 ritory to private parties or companies, has the honor to report that the papers 

 herewith submitted in schedule A, hereunto annexed, are all the papers in the 

 Department of State which relate to the subject-matter of the resolution. The 

 same papers contain, also, all the information which this department has con- 

 cerning any steps which have been taken, or any acts done, of the character speci- 

 fied in the resolution. 



Respectfully submitted. 



WILLIAM H. SEWARD. 



The President. 



Schedule A. 



No. 1. Memorial of the legislature of Washington Territory to the President. 



5J 'id-A February, ]866. 

 No. £ Captain Harris to Mr. Seward. April 21, 1867. 



