308 ALASKA INDUSTRIES. 



said term 25,000 dried salmon, 60 cords firewood, and a sufScient (juautity of salt 

 and a sufficient quantity of barrels for preserving the necessary supply of meat. 



And the said lessees also hereby covenant and agree during the term aforesaid to 

 niiiintain a school on each island, in accordance with said lules and regulations and 

 suitable for the education of the natives of said islands, for a period of not less than 

 eight months in each year. 



And the said lessees further covenant and agree not to kill upon said island of St. 

 Paul more than 75,000 fur seals, and upon the island St. George not more than 25,000 

 fur seals per annum ; not to kill any fur seal upon the islands aforesaid in any other 

 month except the mouths of Jiine^ Ji^i^y; September, and October of each year; not to 

 kill said seals at any time by the use of firearms or means tending to drive said seals 

 from said islands; not to kill any female seals or seals under one year old; not to 

 kill any seal in waters adjacent to said islands or on the beach, cliffs, or rocks, where 

 they haul up from the sea to remain. 



And the said lessees further covenant and agree to abide by aiiy restriction or lim- 

 itation upon the right to kill seals under this lease that the act prescribes or that 

 the Secretary of the Treasury shall j udge necessary for the preservation of such seals. 



And the said lessees hereby agree that they will not in any way sell, transfer, or 

 assign this lease, and that any transfer, sale, or assignment of the same shall be void 

 and of no effect. 



And the said lessees further agree to furnish to the several masters of the vessels 

 employed by them certified copies of this lease, to be presented to the Government 

 revenue officers for the time beiug in charge of said islands, as the authority of said 

 lessees for the landing and taking of said skins. 



And the said lessees further covenant and agree that they or their agents shall not 

 keep, sell, furnish, give, or dispose of any distilled spirituous liquors on either of 

 said islands to any of the natives thereof, such person not being a physician and fur- 

 nishing the same for use as medicine. 



And the said lessees further covenant and agree that this lease is accepted subject 

 to all needful rules and regulations which shall at any time or times hereafter be 

 made by the Secretary of the Treasury for the collection and payment of the rental 

 herein agreed to be paid by said lessees for the comfort, maintenance, education, and 

 protection of the natives of said islands, and for carrying into efiect all the provf- 

 sions of the act aforesaid, and Avill abide by and conform to said rules and regulations. 



And the said lessees, accepting this lease with a full knowledge of the provisions 

 of the aforesaid act of Congress, further covenant and agree that they will fulfill all 

 the provisions, requirements, and limitations of said act, whether herein specifically 

 set out or not. 



In witness whereof the parties aforesaid have hereunto set their hands and seals 

 tbe day and year above Avritten. 



[seal.] William A. Richardson, 



Actmg Secretari/ of the Treasury. 



[SEAL.] Alaska Commercial Company, 



By John F. Miller, President. 



Executed in presence of— 

 J. H. Saville. 



In accordance with the pi'ovisions of "An act to prevent the extermination of fur- 

 bearing animals in Alaska," approved July 1, 1870, and considering the fact, that 

 one-half of the present season for killing fur seals has already expired before the 

 making of a lease as therein authorized and re(]uired, and that the killing, during 

 the remainder of the season, of the full number of fur seals limited by said act, 

 would tend to the extermination of the fur-bearing animals, and that further restric- 

 tions and limitations for this year have become necessary for the preservation of 

 such seals, the right of killing fur seals on the islands of St. Paul and St. George, 

 in said Alaska, during the present year, A. D. 1870, is further restricted and limited 

 as follows : 



First. The number of fur seals which may be killed for their skins during the year 

 1870, iipon the island of St. Paul, is hereby limited and restricted to 37,500. 



Second. The number of fur seals which may be killed for their skins during the 

 year of 1870, upon the island of St. George, is hereby limited and restricted to 12,500. 



And the rent of $55,000 reserved to the Government in the lease under said act to 

 the "Alaska Commercial Company," bearing date August 3, 1870, is proportionately 

 reduced for the first year of said le.'ise, to wit, $27,500, witliout otherwise afiecting 

 any agreement of covenant therein made on the part of said company, August 9, 1870. 



William A. Richardson, 

 Acting Secretary of the Treasury. 



