One hundred and twenty-two vessels took in all 73,394 skins; average catch per vessel, 601.59 skins. Ninety-five vessels took on the east side of the Pacific Ocean 46,642 skins (from the Pribilof herd); average catch per vessel, 490.96 skins.

Forty vessels took on the west side of the Pacific Ocean 26,752 skins (from the Commander herd) · average catch per vessel, 668.8 skins.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA,

City of Washington, ss:

George L. Scarborough, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I am a clerk in the Department of State. The annexed table, compiled by me, represents the vessels engaged in pelagic sealing and the nationalties and catches of the same during the year 1892. The data from which the table has been compiled are reports of officials of the State, Treasury, and Navy Departments of the United States, statistics obtained from persons engaged in the fur trade and by the press, and information obtained from competent and reliable persons.

GEO. L. SCARBOROUGH.

Sworn to before me this 24th day of December, 1892. [SEAL.]

SEVELLON A. BROWN, Notary Public in and for the District of Columbia, U. S. A.

MISCELLANEOUS.

SEALSKINS FROM THE PRIBILOF ISLANDS ENTERED AT SAN FRANCISCO, 1872 TO 1889.

Statement of the number of fur-seal skins received by the Alaska Commercial Company from ports in the Territory of Alaska, and entered at the port of San Francisco, California.

I, the undersigned, hereby certify that the foregoing statement is compiled from the original Return Manifests of the vessels conveying said sealskins, now on file in the Custom House in the city of San Francisco; that such statement is compiled from the count made at the said port of San Francisco by the United States customs officers when said vessels were unloaded, as appears in the aforesaid Return Manifests. Said statement has also been compared with the duplicate receipts to the Alaska Commercial Company from the United States Treasury, now on file in this Custom House, which said receipts were given on payment of the agreed tax per skin on all skins taken by said Company on the Pribilof Islands, said receipts also containing the number of skins on which said tax was paid; and that said statement and said receipts, so compared, practically agree as to number of skins received at this port by the said Alaska Commercial Company and the number on which said Company paid the tax fixed by the lease of the Pribilof Islands to said Company.

Done at the Custom House in the city of San Francisco, California, this 18th day of November, 1892.

[SEAL.]

E. B. JEROME,

Spl. Dy. Coll.

SALES OF SEALING SCHOONERS.

No. 243.

UNITED STATES CONSULATE,

BRITISH COLUMBIA, Victoria, B. C., September 27, 1889.

I, Robert J. Stevens, consul of the United States at Victoria, B. C., do hereby certify that the signature of Theodore T. Williams at the foot of the writing hereunto attached is his true and genuine signature made and acknowledged in my presence, and that the said Theodore T. Williams is personally known to me; and I do further certify that the said Williams has sworn before me to the truth of the statement, to wit: Statement setting forth the record of sealing schooners sold at public auction by J. P. Davis, auctioneer, Sept. 26th, 1885.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the consulate at Victoria, B. C., this day and year next above written, and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and fourteenth.

[SEAL.]

ROBT. J. STEVENS, Consul of the United States.

VICTORIA, B. C., September 29th, 1889.

Record of sales of sealing schooners at public auction, made by J. P. Davis & Co., Vic

toria, B. C.

Copy made from page 416 of the sale book of J. P. Davis & Co., Victoria, B. C.-T. T. Williams.