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United States to the amount of 150,000, face value to be held as a 

 guarantee for the annual payment of said $60,000 rental, the interest 

 thereon when due to be collected and paid to The North American Com- 

 mercial Company, provided the said company is not in default of pay- 

 ment of any part of the said $60,000 rental. 



That it will furnish to the native inhabitants of said islands of St. 

 George and St. Paul annually such quantity or number of dried sal- 

 mon, and such quantity of salt and such number of salt barrels for j)re- 

 serving their necessary supply of meat as the Secretary of the Treas- 

 ury shall from time to time determine. 



That it will also furnish to the said inhabitants 80 tons of coal an- 

 nually and a sufficient number of comfortable dwellings in which said 

 native inhabitants may reside, and will keep said dwellings in proper 

 repair; and will also provide and keep in repair such suitable school- 

 houses as may be necessary, and will establish and maintain during 

 eight months of each year proper schools for the education of the 

 children on said islands, the same to be taught by comi)etent teachers, 

 who shall be paid by the Company a fair comiiensation, all to the satis- 

 faction of the Secretary of the Treasury; and will also provide and 

 maintain a suitable house for religious worship ; and will also provide 

 a competent physician or physicians and necessary and proper medi- 

 cines and medical supplies; and will also provide the necessaries of 

 life for the widows and orphans and aged and infirm inhabitants of 

 said islands who are unable to provide for themselves ; all of which 

 foregoing agreements will be done and performed by the said Company 

 free of all costs and charges to said native inhabitants of said islands 

 or to the United States. 



The annual rental, together with all other payments to the United 

 States provided for in this lease, shall be made and paid on or before 

 the first day of April of each and every year during the existence of 

 this lease, beginning with the 1st day of April, 1891. 



The said Company further agrees to employ the native inhabitants 

 of said islands to perform such labor upon the islands as they are fitted 

 to perform, and to pay therefor a fair and just compensation, such as 

 may be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury; and also agrees to con- 

 tribute, as far as in its power, all reasonable efforts to secure the com- 

 fort, health, education, and promote the morals and civilization of said 

 native inhabitants. 



The said Company also agrees faithfully to obey and abide by all rules 

 and regulations that the Secretary of the Treasury has heretofore or 

 may hereafter establish or make in pursuance of law concerning the 

 taking of seals on said islands, and concerning the comfort, morals, and 

 other interests of said inhabitants, and all matters pertaining to said 

 islands and the taking of seals within the possessions of the United 

 States. It also agrees to obey and abide by any restrictions or limita- 

 tions upon the right to kill seals, that the Secretary of the Treasury 

 shall judge necessary under the law, for the preservation of the seal 

 fisheries of the United States; and it agrees that it will not kill, or per- 

 mit to be killed, so far as it can prevent, in any year, a greater number 

 of seals than is authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury. 



The said Company further agrees that it will not permit any of its 

 agents to keep, sell, give, or dispose of any distilled spirits or spirituous 

 liquors or opium on either of said islands, or the waters adjacent thereto, 

 to any of the native inhabitants of said islands, such person not being 

 a pliysician and furnishing the same for use as a medicine. 



It IS understood and agreed that the number of fur-seals to be taken 



