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or advantage, directly or indirectly, of any x)ersons other tlian Ameri- 

 can citizens. 



Sec. 1906. Every lease shall contain a covenant on the part of the 

 lessee tliat he will not keep, sell, furnish, give or dispose of any dis- 

 tilled spirits or spiritous liquors on either of those islands to any of the 

 natives thereof, such i)ersou not being a physician and furnishing the 

 same for use as medicine; and every revenue officer, officially acting as 

 such on either of the islands, shall seize and destroy any distilled or 

 spirituous liquors found thereon; but such officer shall make detailed 

 reports of his doings in that matter to the collector of the port. 



Sec. 1967. Every person who kills any fur seal on either of those 

 islands, or in the waters adjacent thereto, without authority of the les- 

 sees thereof, and every person who molests, disturbs, or interferes with 

 the lessees, or either of them, or their agents or employes, in the lawful 

 prosecution of their business, under the provisions of this chapter, shall 

 for each offense be punished as prescribed in section nineteen hundred 

 and sixty-one; and all vessels, their tackle, apparel, appurtenances, 

 and cargo, whose crews are found engaged in any violation of the pro- 

 visions of sections nineteen hundred and sixty-five to nineteen hundred 

 and sixty-eight, inclusive, shall be forfeited to the United States. 



Sec. 1968. If any person or company, under any lease herein author- 

 ized, knowingly kills, or permits to be killed, any number of seals ex- 

 ceeding the number for each island in this chapter prescribed, such 

 person or company shall, in addition to the penalties and forfeitures 

 herein provided, forfeit the whole number of the skins of seals killed 

 in that year, or, in case the same have been disposed of, then such per- 

 son or company shall forfeit the value of the same. 



Sec. 1969. In additional to the annual rental required to be reserved 

 in every lease, as provided in section nineteen hundred and sixty-three, 

 a revenue tax or duty of two dollars is laid upon each fur-seal skin 

 taken and shipped from the islands of Saint Paul and Saint George 

 during the continuance of any lease, to be paid into the Treasury of 

 the United States; and the Secretary of the Treasury is empowered to 

 make all needful regulations for the collection and payment of the same, 

 and to secure the comfort, maintenance, education, and protection of 

 the natives of those islands, and also to carry into full effect all the 

 provisions of this chapter except as otherwise prescribed. 



Sec. 1970. The Secretary of the Treasury may terminate any lease 

 given to any person, company, or corporation on full and satisfactory 

 proof of the violation of any of the provisions of this chapter or the reg- 

 ulations established by him. 



Sec. 1971. The lessees shall furnish to the several masters of vessels 

 employed by them certified copies of the lease held by them respectively, 

 which shall be presented to the Government revenue officer for the time 

 being who may be in charge at the islands as the authority of the party 

 for landing and taking skins. 



Sec. 1972. Congress may at any time hereafter alter, amend, or re- 

 peal sections from nineteen hundred and sixty to nineteen hundred and 

 seventy-one, both inclusive of this chapter. 



Sec. 1973. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to appoint 

 one agent and three assistant agents, who shall be charged with the 

 management of the seal fisheries in Alaska, and the performance of 

 such other duties as may be assigned to them by the Secretary of the 

 Treasury. 



Sec. 1974. The agent shall receive the sum of ten dollars each day, 

 one assistant agent the sum of eight dollars each day, and two assist^ 



