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physician and furnishing the same for use as medicine: and any person who shall 
kill any fur-seal on either of the said islands, or in the waters adjacent thereto, 
without authority of the lessees thereof, and any person who shall molest, disturb, 
or interfere with said lessees, or either of them, or their agents or employés, in the 
lawful prosecution of their business, under the provisions of this Act shall be deemed 
guilty of a misdemeanour, and shall for each offence, on conviction thereof, be pun- 
ished in the same way and by like penalties as prescribed in the 2nd section of this 
Act; and all vessels, their tackle, apparel, appurtenances, and cargo, whose crews 
shall be found engaged in any violation of either of the provisions of this section, 
shall be forfeited to the United States; and if any person or Company, under any 
lease herein authorized, shall knowingly kill, or permit to be killed, any number of 
seals exceeding the number for each island in this Act prescribed, such person or 
Company shall, in addition to the penalties and forfeitures aforesaid, also forfeit 
the whole number of the skins of seals killed in that year, or, in case the same have 
been disposed of, then said parties or Company shall forfeit the value of the same; 
and it shall be the duty of any Revenue officer, officially acting as such on either of 
said islands, to seize and destroy any distilled spirits or spirituous liquors found 
thereon, provided that such officer shall make detailed report of his doing so to the 
Collector of the port. 
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, that the annual rental to be reserved by said 
lease shall not be less than 50,000 dollars per annum, to be secured by deposit of 
United States bonds to that amount, and in addition thereto a revenue tax as duty 
of 2 dollars is hereby laid upon each fur-seal skin taken and shipped from said islands 
during the continuance of such lease to be paid into the Treasury of the United 
States; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby empowered and authorized to 
make all needful Rules and Regulations for the collection and payment of the same, 
for the comfort, maintenance, education, and protection of the natives of said islands, 
and also for carrying into full effect all the provisions of this Act. Provided, further, 
that the Secretary of the Treasury may terminate any lease given to any person, 
Company, or Corporation on full and satisfactory proof of the violation of any of 
the provisions of this Act, or the Rules and Regulations established by him. Pro- 
vided, further, that the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to deliver to 
the owners the fur-seal skins now stored on the islands, on the payment of 1 dollar for 
each of said skins taken and shipped away by said owners. 
Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, that the provisions of the 7th and 8th sections of 
‘‘An Act to extend the Laws of the United States relating to Customs, Commerce, 
and Navigation over the Territory ceded to the United States by Russia, to establish 
a Collection District thereon, and for other purposes,” approved 27th July, 1868, shall 
be deemed to apply to this Act, and all prosecutions for offences committed against 
the provisions of this Act, and all other proceedings had because of the violations of 
the provisions of this Act, and which are authorized by said Act above men- 
14 tioned, shali be in accordance with the provisions thereof, and all Acts and 
parts of Acts inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed, 
Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, that the Congress may at any time hereafter 
alter, amend, or repeal this Act. 
Approved Ist July, 1870. 
{Inclosure 2 in No. 6.] 
Mr. Boutwell to Mr. Phelps, April 19, 1872. 
(See inclosure 6 in No. 3.) 
[Inclosure 3 in No. 6.] 
Lease of the United States to the Alaska Commercial Company to take Fur Seals in the 
Territory of Alaska. 
This indenture, in duplicate, made this 3rd day of August A. D. 1870, by and 
between William A. Richardson, Acting Secretary of the Treasury, in pursuance of 
an Act of Congress, approved the Ist July, 1870, entitled “‘An Act to prevent the 
Extermination of Fur-bearing Animalsin Alaska,” and the Alaska Commercial Com- 
pany, a Corporation duly established under the laws of the State of California, act- 
ing by John F. Miller, its President and Agent, in accordance with a Resolution of 
said Corporation duly adopted at a meeting of its Board of Trustees, held the 31st 
January, 1870, 
Witnesseth— 
That the said Secretary hereby leases to the said Alaska Commercial Company, 
without power of transfer, for the term of twenty years from the 1st day of May, 
