240 THE FUR SEALS OF THE PKIBILOF ISLANDS. 



kill or permit to be killed, so far as it cau prevent, iu 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 i)erinit 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 ad jacent 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 oi fur seals to be taken and killed for 

 their skins upon said islands by the Nm-th American Commercial Company during the 

 year ending May 1, 1891, shall not exceed 0(1,000. 



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

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

 full and satisfactory proof that ihe said cora])any lias 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. 



I SEAL. I ]SrOETH AMERICAN COMMERCIAL COMPANY, 



By I. LiEiiES, 

 President of the North American Commercial (Jompany. 

 Attest: 



H. B. I'AKSdNS, Assistant Secretary. 



TUK CONFERENCE OF FUR-SEAL EXPERTS. 



The Coufei-euce 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 Macoun; on the part of the 

 United States, Hon. Charles Sumner Hamlin and Dr. David Starr Jordan. 



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

 secretary of Stanford University, and Mr. Kobert N. Yenning, of the department of 

 marine and fisheries of Canada, were a])pointed joint secretaries. 



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

 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 10, the Conference agreed to and duly signed 

 the following joint statement of conclusions: 



JOINT STATEMENT OF CONCLUSIONS RESPECT1N(; THE FIR-SEAL HERD FRE 

 gUENTING 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 



