156 THE FISHERIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 



8. No persons other than American citizens, or the Aleutian inhabitants of said islands, will be employed by 

 the company on the islands in any capacity. 



9. The Aleutian people living on the islands will be employed by the company in taking seals for their skins, 

 and they will be paid for the labor of taking each skin and delivering the same at the salt-house forty cents, coin, 

 until otherwise ordered by the Secretary of the Treasury. For other labor performed for the company, proper and 

 remunerative wages will be paid, the amount to be agreed upon between the agents of the company and the 

 persons employed. The working-parties will be under the immediate control of their own chiefs, and no compulsory 

 means will ever be used to induce the people to labor. All shall be free to labor or not, as they may choose. The 

 agents of the company will make selection of the seals to be killed, and are authorized to use all proper means to 

 prevent the cutting of skins. 



10. All provisions and merchandise required by the inhabitants for legitimate use will be furnished them from 

 the company's stores, at prices not higher than ordinary retail prices at San Francisco, and in no case at prices 

 above 25 per cent, advance on wholesale or invoice prices in San Francisco. 



11. The necessary supplies of fuel, oil, and salmon will be furnished the people gratis. 



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



13. The landing or manufacture on the islands of spirituous or intoxicating liquors or wines will, under no 

 circumstances, be permitted by the company, and the preparation and use of fermented liquors by the inhabitants 

 must be discouraged in every legitimate manner. 



11. 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 year, four hours per day, Sundays 

 and holidays excepted, and agents and teachers 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. 



10. 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. 



17. The dwelling-houses now being erected by the company will be occupied by the Aleutian families free of 

 rent or other charges. 



IS. No interference on the part of the agents or employes 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 enjoined upon all agents and employes 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 employes of the company are expected to instruct the native people in household economy, and, by 

 precept and example, illustrate to them the principles and benefits of a higher civilization. 



20. Faithful and strict compliance with all the provisions and obligations contained 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 coutained in the lease to the company executed in pursuance of said act, and the regulations of the 

 Secretary of the Treasury, prescribed under authority of said act, is especially enjoined upon all agents and employes 

 of the company. The authority of the special agents of the Treasury appointed to reside upon the islands must be 

 respected, whenever lawfully exercised. The interest of the company in the management of the seal-fisheries being 

 identical in character with that of the United States, there can be no conflict between the agents of the company 

 and the agents of the government, 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 of record on each island, in 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 islands, stating, in cases of death, the causes of the same. A full transcript 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 violation of the same by the agents or employes of the company will be followed by the summary removal 

 of the offeuding party. 



JOHN F. MILLER, 

 President Alaska Commercial Company. 



General Miller, in January, 1881, was elected, by the legislature of California, to the Senate of the United States. 

 He is succeeded as president of the Alaska Commercial Company by Mr. Lewis Gerstle, who is one of the original 

 stockholders, aud who has always been prominently identified with the business. The affairs of the company are now 

 principally managed by Messrs. Gerstle, Sloss, Niebaurn, and Neumann, on the Pacific coast; by Mr. Hutchinson, 

 at Washington ; and Sir Curtis Lampson in London. 



