238 THE FUK SEALS OF THE PRIBILOF ISLANDS. 



And the said lessees further covenant and agree that they or their agents shall 

 not keep, sell, furnisli, give, or dispose of any distilled spirituous licpiors on cither of 

 said islands to any of the natives thereof, such person not being a physician and 

 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 rental herein 

 agreed to be paid by said lessees for the comfort, maintainance, education, and 

 protection of the natives of said islands, and for carrying into effect all the provisions 

 of the act aforesaid, and will abide by and conform to sjiid rules and regulations. 



And the said lessees, accepting this lease with a full knowledge of the provisions 

 of the aforesaid act of Congress, further covenant and agree that they will fulfill all 

 the ])rovisions, requirements, and limitations of said act, whether herein specifically 

 set out or not. 



In witness whereof the parties aforesaid liave liereunto set their hands and seals 

 the day and year above written. 



[SEAL.] William A. Uichardson, 



Acting Secretary of the Tredsiiri/. 

 [seal.] Alaska Commercial Company, 



By John F. Miller, rresident. 

 Executed in presence of — 

 J. H. Saville. 



COPT OF CONTRACT BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND THE NOETU AMERICAN 

 COMMERCIAL COMPANY, UNDER WHICH SAID COMPANY IS GRANTED THE 

 EXCLUSIVE BIGHT OF TAKING FUR SEALS UPON THE PRIBILOF ISLANDS IN 

 ALASKA. 



This indenture, made in duplicate this twelfth day of March, 1890, by and between 

 William Windom, Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, in pursuance of 

 chapter 3 of title 23, Revised Statutes, and the North American Commercial Company, 

 a corporation duly established 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: 



Tliat the said Secretary of the Treasury, in consideration of the agreements 

 hereinafter stated, hereby leases to the said North American Commercial Company 

 for a term of twenty years, from the first day of May, 1890, the exclusive riglit to 

 engage in the business of tiiking fur seals on the islands of St. (!eorge 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 Comi)any, in consideration of the rights 

 secured to it under this lease above stated, on its part covenants and agrees to do the 

 things following, that is to say: 



To pay to tlie Treasurer of the United States each year during the said term of 

 twenty years, as annual rental, the sum of sixty tliousand dollars, and in addition 

 thereto agrees to pay the revenue tax, or duty, of two dollars laid ui)on each fur-seal 



