240 THE FUR SEALS OF THE PRIBILOF ISLANDS. 



kill or permit 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 physician and furnishing the same for use as a 

 medicine. 



It is understood and agreed that the number of fur seals to be taken and killed for 

 their skins upon said islands by the North American Commercial Company during the 

 year ending May 1, 1891, shall not exceed 60,000. 



The Secretary of the Treasury reserves the right to terminate this lease and all 

 rights of the North American Commercial Company under the same at any time, on 

 full and satisfactory proof that the said company has violated any of the provisions 

 and agreements of this lease, or any of the laws of the United States, or any Treasury 

 regulation respecting the taking of fur seals, or concerning the islands of St. George 

 and St. Paul, or the inhabitants thereof. 



In witness whereof the parties have set their hands and seals the day and year 

 above written. 



[SEAL.] WILLIAM WINDOM, Secretary of the Treasury. 



[SEAL.] NORTH AMERICAN COMMERCIAL COMPANY, 



By 1. LIEBES, 



President of the North American Commercial Company. 

 Attest: 



H. B. PARSONS, Assistant Secretary. 



THE CONFERENCE OF FUR-SEAL EXPERTS. 



The Conference of Fur-Seal Experts, representing Great Britain, Canada, and 

 the United States, convened at the city of Washington, November 10, 1897. The 

 following were the delegates: On the part of Great Britain, Prof. D'Arcy Wentworth 

 Thompson; on the part of Canada, Mr. James Melville Macouu: on the part of the 

 United States, Hon. Charles Suinuer Hamliu and Dr. David Starr Jordan. 



Mr. Hamlin was chosen president of the Conference, and Mr. George A. Clark, 

 secretary of Stanford University, and Mr. Eobert N. Venuiug, of the department of 

 marine and fisheries of Canada, were appointed joint secretaries. 



Hon. John W. Foster, special commissioner in charge of the fur-seal matter for 

 the United States, and Sir Louis H. Davies, minister of marine and fisheries for 

 Canada, and Mr. C. F. Frederick Adam, of the British legation, attended the sessions 

 of the Conference. 



After due deliberation, on November 16, the Conference agreed to and duly signed 

 the following joint statement of conclusions: 



JOINT STATEMENT OP CONCLUSIONS RESPECTING THE FUR-SEAL HERD FRE- 

 QUENTING THE PRIBILOF ISLANDS IN BERING SEA. 



The undersigned, duly empowered delegates, engaged during recent years in the 

 investigation of the condition and habits of the fur-seal herd frequenting the Pribilof 



