106 ACTION OF THE UNITED STATES. 



natives thereof, such person not being a physician furnishing the same 

 for use as medicine. 



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

 accepted subject 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 rentals herein agreed to be paid 

 by said lessees, for the comfort, maintenance, education, and protec- 

 tion of the natives of said islands, and for carrying into effect all tlie 

 provisions of the act aforesaid, and will abide by and conform to said 

 rules and regulations. 



And the said lessees, accepting this lease with the full knowledge 

 of the provisions of the aforesaid act of Congress, further covenant and 

 agree that they will fulfill all the provisions, requirements, and limita- 

 tions of said act, whether herein specifically set out or not. 



In witness whereof the parties aforesaid have hereunto set their 

 hands and seals the day and year above written. 



Wllliam a. Richardson, 



Acting Secretary of the Treasury. 

 Alaska Oommerciai. Company, 

 By Jno. F. Miller, President. 

 Executed in the presence of — 

 J. H. Savillb. 



Lease of the sealing rights on the Pribilof Islands to the North American 

 Commercial Company in 1890. 



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

 and between William Windom, Secretary of the Treasury of the United 

 States, m pursuance of Chapter 3, of Title 23, Revised Statutes, and 

 The North American Commercial Company, a corporation duly estab- 

 lished 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 Treasnry, in considera- 

 tion of the agreements hereinafter stated, hereby leases to the said 

 North American Commercial Company 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 cov- 

 enants 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 $60,000; and iu 

 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 the said Treasurer the further sum of 

 $7.C2J apiece for each and every fur-seal skin taken and shipped from 

 said islands; and also to pay the sum of 50 cents per gallon for each 

 gallon of oil sold by it made from seals, that may be taken on said is- 

 lands during the said period of twenty years; and to secure thei)ronipt 

 payment of the $00,000 rental above referred to, the said company 

 agrees to deposit with the Secretary of the Treasury bonds of the 



