452 ALASKA INDUSTRIES. 



And the said lessees further covenant and agree that they or their a.f^ents shall not 

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

 said islands to any of the natives thereof, such person not heing a physician and 

 furnishing the same for use as medicine. 



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

 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 effect all the pro- 

 visions of the act aforesaid, and will abide by and conform to said rules and regu- 

 lations. 



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 specifi- 

 cally set out or not. 



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

 the day and year above written. 



William A. Eichardson, [seal.] 

 Acting Secretary of the Treasury. 

 Alaska Commercial Company, 

 By John F. Miller, President, [seal.] 

 Executed in presence of — 



J. H. Saville. 



This lease having terminated on the 1st day of last May (1890), the 

 following new lease was executed in accordance with the law: 



This indenture, made in duplicate this 12th day of March, 1890, by and between 

 William Wmdom, Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, in pursuance of 

 chapters of title 23, Revised Statutes, and the North American Commercial Com- 

 pany, a corporation duly established under the laws of the State of California, and 

 acting by I. Liebes, its president, in accordance with a resolution of said corporation 

 adopted at a meeting of its board of directors held January 4, 1890 : 



Witnesseth, that the said Secretary of the Treasury, in consideration of the agree- 

 ments hereinafter stated, hereby leases to the said North American Commercial Com- 

 pany, for a term of twenty years from the 1st day of May, 1890, the exclusive right 

 to engage in the business of taking fur seals on the islands of St. George and St. 

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

 the skins of such seals. 



The said North American Commercial Company, in consideration of the rights 

 secured to it under this lease above stated, on its part covenants and agrees to do 

 the things following, that is to say : 



To pay to the Treasurer of the United States each year during the said term of 

 twenty years, as annual rental, the sum of .t60,000, and in addition thereto agrees to 

 pay the revenue tax or duty of $2 laid upon each fur-seal skin taken and shipped by 

 it from said islands of St. George and St. Paul; and also to pay to said Treasurer the 

 further sum of $7.62i apiece for each and every fur skin taken and shipped from said 

 islands; and also to pay the sum of 50 cents per gallou for each gallon o-f oil sold by 

 it made from seals that may be taken on said islands during the said period of twenty 

 years: and to secure the prompt payment of the $60,000 rental above referred to, the 

 said company agrees to dejiosit with the Secretary of the Treasury bonds of the United 

 States to the amount of $50,000, face value, to lie held as a guaranty for the annual 

 payment of said $60,000 rental , the interest thereon when due to be collected and paid 

 to the North American Commercial Company, provided the said company is not in 

 default of payment of any part of the said .$60,000 rental. 



That it will furnish to the native inhabitants of said islands of St. George and St. 

 Paul annually such quantity or number of dried salmon and such quantity of salt, 

 and such number of salt barrels for preserving their necessary supply of meat as the 

 Secretary of the Treasury shall from time to time determine. 



That it will also furnish to the said inhabitants 80 tons of coal annually, and a suf- 

 ficient number of comfortable dwellings in which said native inhabitants may reside ; 

 and will keep said dwellings in proper repair, and will also provide and keej) in 

 repair such suitable schoolhouses as may be necessary, and will establish and main- 

 tain during eight months of each year proper schools for the education of the chil- 

 dren on said islands, the same to be taught l)y competent teachers who sliall be paid 

 by the company a fair compensation, all to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the 

 Treasury ; and will also provide and maintain a suitable house for religious worship ; 

 and will also provide a competent physician or physicians, and necessary and proper 

 medicines and medical sujiplies; and will also i)rovide the necessaries of life for the 

 widows and orphans and aged and infirm inhabitants of said isla/nds who are unable 



