240 THE FUR SEALS OF THK 1'KIBILOF ISLANDS. 



kill or permit to be killed, so I'ur as it can prevent, in any year a greater number of 

 seals than is authori/ed by the Secretary of the Treasury. 



The said company further agrees that it will not permit any of its agents to keep. 

 sell, give, or dispose of any distilled spirits or spirituous liquors or opium, on either 

 of said islands, or the waters adjacent thereto, to any of the native inhabitants of said 

 islands, such person not being a physician and furnishing the same for use as a 

 medicine. 



It is understood and agreed that the number of fur seals to be taken and killed for 

 their skins upon said islands by the North American Commercial Company during the 

 year ending May 1, 1<S!U, shall not exceed <(>,()()(. 



The Secretary of the Treasury reserves the right to terminate this lease and all 

 rights of the North American Commercial Company under the same at any time, on 

 full and satisfactory proof that the said company has violated any of the provisions 

 and agreements of this lease, or any of the laws of the United States, or any Treasury 

 regulation respecting the taking of fur seals, or concerning the islands of St. George 

 and St. Paul, or the inhabitants thereof. 



In witness whereof the parties have set their hands and seals the day and year 

 above written. 



[SEAL.] WILLIAM WmrDOV., Secretary of the 



[.SEAL.] NORTH AMERICAN COMMERCIAL COMPANY, 



By I. LIEIJES, 



President of the Xortlt American Commercial 

 Attest : 



II. IJ. 1 V\ us INS. . I. V.S/.S-/ a nt Secretary. 



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The Conference of Fur-Seal Experts, representing Great Britain, Canada, and 

 the United States, convened at the city of Washington, November 10, 1897. The 

 following were the delegates: On the part of Great Britain, Prof. D'Arcy Went worth 

 Thompson; on the part of Canada, Mr. James Melville Macoun: on the part of the 

 I'nited States, Hon. Charles Sunnier Hamlin and Dr. David Starr Jordan. 



Mr. Hamlin was chosen president of the Conference, and Mr. George A. Clark, 

 secretary of Stanford University, and Mr. Robert N. Veiining, of the department of 

 marine and fisheries of Canada, were appointed joint secretaries. 



Hon. John W. Foster, special commissioner in charge of the fur-seal matter for 

 the United States, and Sir Louis H. Da vies, minister of marine and Jisherio for 

 Canada, and Mr. C. F. Frederick Adam, of the British legation, attended the sessions 

 of the Conference. 



After due deliberation, on November 1<>, the Conference agreed to and duly signed 

 the following joint statement of conclusions: 



JOINT STATEMENT OF CONCLUSIONS RESPECTING THE Fl R-sKAL IIKI.'D FKE 

 nlE.VJING THE PRIBILOF ISLANDS IN IJERINd SKA. 



The undersigned, duly empowered delegates, engaged during recent years in the 

 investigation of the condition and habits of the fur-seal herd frequenting the Pribilof 



