Sustenance of the colony 2,288,207.20 Colony’s churches 71,723.18 Benevolent institutions 143,366.23 Principal administrative officers 1,536,436.49 Tea duty 1,764,559.85 Transportation and packing of tea 586,901.72 Purchase and transportation of merchandise 213,696.29 Insurance of tea and merchandise 217,026.55 Loss during war and by shipwreck 132,820.20 Reconstruction of Company’s house in St. Petersburg 76,976.00 Capital for the use of the poor 6,773.02 Revenue fund capital 135,460.40 Dividends 1,354,604.00 ------------ Total 8,528,551.13 Analyzing this table, we arrive at a clearer insight into the affairs of the Company. If its receipts have been considerable, they have been subject to serious deductions. From the expenditures we also learn something of the obligations we are about to assume. Another table shows that during this same period 122,006 rubles were received for ice, mostly sent to California, 26,399 rubles for timber, and 6,250 for coal. I think it not improbable that these items are included in the list of “receipts” under the term “other traffics.” In Russia the churches belong to the Government, and this rule prevails in these districts, where are four Greek churches and five Greek chapels. There is also a Protestant church at Sitka. I am glad to add that at the latter place there is a public library, which some years ago contained seventeen hundred volumes, together with journals, charts, atlases, mathematical and astronomical instruments. In Atcha, Oonalaska, Kadiak, and Sitka schools are reported at the expense of the Company, though not on a very comprehensive scale; for Admiral Wrangell mentions only ninety boys as enjoying these advantages in 1839. In Oonalaska and Kadiak there were at the same time orphan asylums for girls, where there were in all about thirty; but the Admiral adds, that “these useful institutions will, without doubt, be improved to the utmost.” Besides these, which are confined to particular localities, there is said to be a hospital near every factory in all the districts.