Fish and ll&iife Service 
Technological r^horatery 
S7S5 Qoulevard 
Seattle, aahington 
February If* 1941. 
To whoa It may concern: 
1h» vessel "Chaap* , ffteial Ho. 4346, is trader charter 
to the Flak tmd ' IMHfe 'arriee, U* . Beparteoat of the Interior 
until approxiaately Jims 30* 1941* sad will be used in an 
lavsstl&atlan of tha ’lag erab fishery of Alesha# 
luring this period it will be operated m a vessel of the 
Hatted “States j^overaasat and. Its faster* Captain A afters 1‘elssn* 
will Tie in the & iploya of the Halted states gorv*r»*8t # authorized 
to exercise the full authority of Captain of the vassal. 
B* c* Harrison* 
Technologist in Charge* 
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