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of manaofing- the rookeries thus established Terms of lease. 

 allowed the lessees to take one hundred thou- 

 sand male seals over one year old during tlie 

 months of June, July, September, and October 

 of each year, and prohibiting- the use of firearms 

 or other methods tending to drive away the seals 

 from the islands and the killing of seals in the 

 water. In consideration for the skins thus 

 obtained the lessees covenanted to pay to the 

 Treasury of the United ' States annually fifty- 

 iive thousand dollars as rental of said islands, a 

 revenue tax or duty of two dollars upon each 

 fur-seal skin taken and shipped by them, and 

 the further sum of sixty-two and one-half cents" 

 for each fur-seal skin taken; also to furnish, 

 free of charge, the inhabitants of the islands of 

 St. Paul and St. George annually twenty-five 

 thousand dried salmon, sixty cords firewood, a 

 sufficient quantity of salt and preserved meat; 

 also to maintain a school on each island for at 

 least eight months in each year, and not to sell 

 any distilled spirits or spirituous liquors on said 

 islands.^ The lease thus granted was more 

 advantageous to the Government of the United 

 States and the inhabitants of the Pribilof Islands 

 than the terms of leasing provided for in the act 



' Lease to Alaska Commercial Company, Vol. I, p. 104. 



