342 APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



niireforined Julian Calendar, received from llussia, will give place to 

 ours; old style yielding to new style. 



Au object of immediate i)ractical interest will be the survey of the 

 extended and indented coast by our own officers, bringing it all within 

 the doinain of science and assuring to navigation much-needed assist- 

 ance, while the Kepublic is honoured by a continuation of national 

 charts, Avhere execution vies with science, and the art of engraving is 

 the beautiful handmaid. Associated with this survey, and scarcely 

 inferior in value, will be the examination of the country by scientiiic 

 exjdorers, so that its geological structure may become known, with its 

 various products, vegetable and mineral. But your best work and 

 most imi)ortant endowment will be the Republican (jrovernment, which, 

 looking to a long future, you will organize, with schools free to all and 

 with equal laws, before which every citizen Avill stand erect in the con- 

 sciousness of manhood. Here will be a motive power, without which 

 coal itself will be insuflicient. Here will be a source of wealth more 

 inexhaustible than any fisheries. Bestow such a Oovernment, and you 

 will bestow what is better than all you can receive, whether quintals of 

 fish, sands of gold, choicest fur, or most beautiful ivory. 



00 No. 7. 



LEASE BY THE UNITED STATES TO THE ALASKA COMMERCIAL 



COMPANY. 



This indenture, in duplicate, made this 3rd day of August, A. d. 1S70, 

 by and between William A. Itichardson, Acting Secretary of the Treas- 

 ury, in pursuance of an Act of Congress, approved the 1st July, 1870, 

 entitled "An Act to prevent the Extermination of Fur-bearing Animals 

 in Alaska," and tlie Alaska Commercial Company, a Corporation duly 

 established under the laws of the State of California, acting by John 

 F. Miller, its President and Agent, in accordance with a Resolution of 

 said Cor])oration, duly adopted at a meeting of its Board of Trustees, 

 held the 31st January, 1870; 



Witnesseth, That the said Secretary hereby leases to the said Alaska 

 Commercial Company, without i^ower to transfer, for the term of twenty 

 years, from the 1st day of May, 1870, the right to engage in the business 

 of taking fur seals (m the Isiands of St. George and St. Paul, within 

 the Territory of Alaska, and to send a vessel or vessels to said islands 

 for the slcins of sucli seals. 



And tlie said Alaska Commercial Company, in consideration of their 

 right under this lease, hereby covenant and agree to pay for each year 

 during said term and in proportion during any part thereof, the sum of 

 />r),00() dollars into the Treasury of the United States, in accordance 

 with the regulations of the Secretary, to be made for this jmrpose under 

 said Act, which ])ayment shall be secured by dei)Osit of LTnited States 

 bonds to that amount; and also covenant and agree to i)ay annually 

 into the Treasury of the United States, wudvr said Rules and Regula- 

 tions, a revenu(> tax or duty of L' dollars ui)on each fur seal skin taken 

 and sliipped by them, in accordance with the ])rovisi()ns of the Act 

 aforesaid; and also the sum of (iL*.;i cents for each fur seal skin taken 

 and shi|)i)ed, and 55 cents per gallon for each gallon of oil obtained 

 from said seals for sale on said islands and elsewhi're, and sold by said 

 Comi)any. And also covenant and agree, in accordance with said 



