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skin taken and shipped by it from said islands of St. George and St. Paul, and also 

 to pay to said Treasurer the further sum of seven dollars sixty-two and one-half 

 cents apiece for each and every fur-seal skin taken and shipped from said islands, and 

 also to pay the sum of fifty cents per gallon for each gallon of oil sold by it made 

 from seals that may be taken on said islands during the said period of twenty years; 

 and to secure the prompt payment of the sixty thousand dollars rental above referred 

 to, the said company agrees to deposit with the Secretary of the Treasury bonds of 

 the United States to the amount of fifty thousand dollars, face value, to be held as a 

 guarantee for the annual payment of said sixty thousand dollars rental, the interest 

 thereon when due to be collected and paid to the North American Commercial Company, 

 provided the said company is not in default of payment of any part of the said sixty 

 thousand dollars 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 salmon, and such quantity of salt 

 and such number of salt barrels for preserving their necessary supply of meat as the 

 Secretary of the Treasury shall from time to time determine. 



That it will also furnish to the said inhabitants eighty tons of coal annually, 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 schoolhouses 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 competent teachers, who shall be 

 paid by the company a fair compensation, all to the satisfaction 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 medicines 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 1st 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 to contribute, as far as is in its power, all reasonable efforts to 

 secure the comfort, 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 regula- 

 tions that the Secretary of the Treasury has heretofore or may hereafter establish or 

 make in pursuance of law concerning the taking of seals of 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 possession of the United States. It 

 also agrees to obey and abide by any restrictions or limitations 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 



