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dent and agent, in accordance with a resolution of said corporation duly- 

 adopted at a meeting of its board of trustees held January 31st, 1870. 



Witnesseth tLat tLe said Secretary hereby leases to The Alaska Com- 

 mercial Company, without power of transfer, for the term of twenty 

 years, from the 1st day of May, 1870, the right to engage in the business 

 of taking fur-seals on the islands of St. George and St. Paul, within the 

 Teriitory of Alaska, and to send a vessel or vessels to said islands for 

 the skins of such seals. 



A nd the said Alaska Commercial Company, in consideration of their 

 right under this lease, hereby covenant and agree to i)ay for each year 

 during said term, and in jnoportion during any j^art thereof, the sum of 

 $55,000 into the Treasury of the United States, in accordance with the 

 regulations of the Secretary, to be made for this purpose under said act, 

 which i)ayment shall be secured by deposit of United States bonds to 

 that amount; and also covenant and agree to pay annually into the 

 Treasury of the United States, under said rules and regulations, a reve- 

 nue tax or duty of $2upon each fur-seal skin taken andshipped bythemin 

 accordance with the provisions of the act aforesaid ; and also the sum of 

 C2J cents for each fur-seal skin taken and shijiped and 55 centsper gallon 

 for each gallon of oil obtained from said seals for sale on said islands or 

 elsewhere and sold by said company. And also covenant and agree, in 

 accordance with said rules and regulations, to furnish free of charge the 

 inhabitants of the islands of St. Paul and St. George, annually during 

 said term, 25,000 dried salmon, GO cords firewood, a sufiflcient quantity 

 of salt, and a sufficient number of barrels for preserving the necessary 

 supply of meat. 



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

 aforesaid, to maintain a school on each island, in accordance with said 

 rules 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 of 

 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 months 

 of June, July, September, and October of each year; not to kill such 

 seals at anytime by the use of firearms or other means tending to drive 

 the seals from said islands; not to kill any female seal or any seal less 

 than one year old; not to kill any seal in the waters adjacent to said 

 islands or on the beaches, cliffs, or rocks where they haul up from the 

 sea to remain. 



And the said lessees further covenant and agree to abide by any re- 

 striction or limitation upon the right to kill seals under this lease that 

 the act prescribes or that the Secretary of the Treasury shall judge 

 necessary for the preservation of such seals. 



And the said lessees hereby agree that they will not in any way 

 sell, transfer, or assigu this lease, and that any transfer, sale, or assign- 

 ment of the same shall be void and of no effect. 



And the said lessees further covenant and agree to furnish to the sev- 

 eral masters of the vessels employed by them certified copies of this lease, 

 to be presented to the Government revenue officers, for the time being 

 in charge of said islands, as the authority of said lessees for the land- 

 ing and taking 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 

 spirits or spirituous liquors on either of said islands to any of the 

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