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12. All widows and orphan children on the islands will be supported by the 

 company. 



lo. Tlie landing or manufacture on the islands of spirituous or intoxicating Iniuors 

 or wines will under no circumstances, be permitted by the company, and the prepa- 

 ration and use of fermented li(iuors by the inhabitants must be discouraged in every 

 legitimate manner. 



14. Free transportation and subsistence on the company's vessels will be furnished 

 all people who at any time desire to remove from the islands to any place in the 

 Aleutian group of islands. 



15. Free schools will be maintained by the company eight months in each yenr, 

 four hours per day, Sundays and holidays excepted, and agents and teacbers will 

 endeavor to secure the attendance of all. The company will furnish the necessary 

 books, stationery, and other appliances for the use of the schools without cost to 

 the people. i, • i 



16. The physicians of the company are required to faithfully attend upon the sick, 

 and both medical attendance and medicines shall be free to all persons on the 

 islands, and the acceptance of gratuities from the people for such services is 

 forbidden. i . 



17. The dwelling houses now being erected by the company will be occupied by 

 the Aleutian families free of rent or other charges. 



18. No interference on the part of the agents or employees of the company in the 

 local government of the people on the islands, or in their social or domestic relations, 

 or in their religious rites or ceremonies, will be countenanced or tolerated. 



19. It is strictly eujoined upon all agents and employees of the company to at all 

 times treat the inhabitants of the islands with the utmost kindness, and endeavor 

 to preserve amicable relations with them. Force is never to be used against them, 

 except in defense of life, or to prevent the wanton destruction of valuable property. 

 The agents and employees of the company are expected to instruct the native people 

 in household economy', and by precept and example illustrate to them the principles 

 and beuetits of a higher civilization. 



20. Faithful and 'strict compliance with all the provisions and obligations con- 

 tained in the act of Congress entitled "An act to prevent the extermination of fur- 

 bearing animals in Alaska," approved July 1, 1870, and the obligations contained in 

 the lease to the company executed in pursuance of said act, and the regulations ot 

 the Secretary of the Treasury, prescribed under authority of said act, is especially 

 enjoined upon all agents and employees of the company. The authority of tlie special 

 a"-'ents of the Treasury appointed to reside upon the islands must be respected, 

 w'henever lawfully exercised. The interest of the company in the management of 

 the seal -fisheries being identical in character with that of the Inited States, there 

 can be no conflict between the agents of the company and the agents of the Govern- 

 ment, if all concerned faithfully perform their several duties and comply with the 

 laws and regulations. 



21. The general agent of the company will cause to be kept books ot record on 

 each island^ iu which shall be recorded the names and ages of all the inhabitants of 

 the islands, and, from time to time, all births, marriages, and deaths which may 

 occur on the i-slands, stating, in cases of death, the causes of the same. A full tran- 

 script of these records will be annually forwarded to the home office at San Francisco. 



22 Copies of these regulations will be kept constantly posted in conspicuous 

 places on both islands, and any willful violatiim of the same by the agt-nts or 

 employees of the company will be followed by the summary removal of the offending 



^ ■ John F. Miller, 



President Alaska Commercial Company. 



General Miller, in January, 1881, was elected by the legislature of 

 California to tlie Senate of tlie Qnited States. He is succeeded as 

 president of the Alaska Commercial Company by Mr. Lewis Gerstle, 

 who is one of the original stockholders, and who has always been 

 prominently identified with the business. The affairs of the company 

 are now principally managed by Messrs. Gerstle, Sloss, Niebaum, and 

 Neumann, on the Pacific Coast; by Mr. Hutchinson, at Washington, 

 and Sir Curtis Lampson in London, 



COMMENTS UPON. THE LEGISLATION OF CONGRESS. 



Ratio of catch at first incorrectly apportioned. — The origi- 

 nal text of the existing law for the protection of the seal islands pro- 

 vides that the 100,000 seals which may be annually taken from them 



