106 INVESTIGATION OF THE FUR-SEAL INDUSTRY OF ALASKA. 



1. It is recommended that the agent in charge, fur-seal service, shall, under the 

 direction of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, have full power to limit or restrict 

 the killing of- fur seals and blue foxes on the Pribilof Islands to any extent necessary 

 and that no specified quota be indicated in the lease. 



2. It is recommended that for the present no fur-seal skin weighing more than 8J 

 pounds or less than 5 pounds shall be taken, and that not more than 95 per cent of the 

 3-year-old male seals be killed in any one year. 



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Mr. Bowers. I had in mind getting the best talent I could; I expected probable 

 criticism. 



Mr. Townsend. I am not criticizing you now. 



Mr. Bowers. I endeavored to get the best talent it was possible to get and to act 

 upon their advice in this fur-seal matter. (Hearing No. 2, pp. 110, 111, June 9, 1911, 

 House Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Commerce and Labor.) 



And still more, it will be observed that Mr. George A. Clark attends 

 this " unanimous" conference, as above recorded, and becomes party 

 willingly to that renewal of the lease and that close killing on the 

 islands. The following official "orders" explain it, perhaps: 



Department of Commerce and- Labor, 



Bureau op Fisheries, 

 Washington, November 1, 1909. 

 Mr. Geo. A. Clark 



Stanford University, Cal. 



Sir: Your orders of May 7, 1909 (No. 547), are hereby extended to April 1, 1910, 

 and you are instructed to come to Washington for the purpose of explaining and fur- 

 ther elucidating your report on the condition of the fur-seal herd based on your obser- 

 vations during the past summer. 



You will be allowed a compensation of $10 for the time so employed and your 

 necessary expenses of travel and subsistence during the performance of such duty, 

 payable from the appropriation "Statistics and methods of the fisheries." 

 Respectfully, 



Geo. M. Bowers, Commmissioner. 



EXHIBIT C. 



The Kate and Anna — Official records which declare her to have been 

 a pirate sealing schooner around St. Paul Island, in July and 

 August, 1890 — Said schooner is the same "just and valid" claim- 

 ant against Russia which H. H. D. Peirce, as "Third Assistant 

 Secretary of State," and C. H. Townsend, as "sealing expert, 

 U. S. Bureau of Fisheries," put up at The Hague, June-July, 1902, 

 and which puts her in the same class with the Jas. Hamilton Lewis, 

 another pirate ship also vouched for bv Peirce and Townsend at 

 The Hague. June- July, 1902. 



Extracts from the official records which declare the Kate and Anna 

 to have been a pirate ship, and not properly vouched for at The 

 -Hague by Peirce and Townsend, who presented her as follows: 



Mr. Peirce. I was requested to act by one George R. Tingle, who was the attorney 

 of record for the owners and crew of the James Hamilton Lewis; and in the case of the 

 C. H. White and the Kate and Anna, the same request was made by James Embry, 

 who was the counsel of record for the C. H. White and the Kate and Anna. (Hearing 

 No. 12, p. 781. May 29. 1912, House Committee on Expenditures in the Department 

 of Commerce and Labor.) 



