Mr. Uhl to Sir Julian Pauncefote .
Washington , February 27, 1895 .
Excellency: I have the honor to apprise you of the receipt of a letter of the 21st instant from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, in which he says that the statement made in the communication in relation to the American pelagic fur seal catch of 1894, which was transmitted to you on the 23d ultimo,1 that the skins were carefully examined as to sex by an expert inspector at the time of entry, was based upon the fact the inspectors had been appointed for that purpose, and upon certification of reports as to sex by those inspectors. It now appears upon investigation that, while the reports of the other inspectors were based upon actual inspection of the skins, those of the inspector stationed at Port Townsend were, notwithstanding the certification above referred to, compiled from statements shown by the logs of vessels.
I have, etc.,
- Printed in Foreign Relations, 1894, Appendix 1, p. 226.↩