30 APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
1870, the right to engage in the business of taking fur-seals on the Islands of St. 
George and St Paul, within the Territory of Alaska, and to send a vessel or vessels 
to said islands for the skins of such seals. 
And the said Alaska Commercial Company, in consideration of their right under 
this lease, hereby covenant and agree to pay for each year during said term, and in 
proportion during any part thereof, the sum of 55,000 dollars into the Treasury of 
the United States, in accordance with the Regulations of the Secretary, to be made 
for this purpose under said Act, which payment shall be secured by deposit of United 
States bonds to that amount, and also covenant and agree to pay annually into the 
Treasury of the United States, under said Rules and Regulations, a revenue tax or 
duty of 2 dollars upon each fur-seal skin taken and shipped by them, in accordance 
with the provisions of the Act aforesaid, and also the sum of 624 cents for each fur- 
seal skin taken and shipped, and 55 cents per gallon for each gallon of oil obtained 
from said seals for sale on said islands or elsewhere, and sold by said Company; and 
also covenant and agree, in accordance with said Rules and Regulations, to furnish 
free of charge the inhabitants of the Islands of St. Paul and St. George annually 
during said term 25,000 dried salmon, 60 cords fire-wood, a sufficient quantity of salt 
and a sufficient number of barrels for preserving the necessary supply of meat. 
And the said lessees also hereby covenant and agree during the term aforesaid to 
maintain a school on each island, in accordance with said Rules and Regulations, 
and suitable for the education of the natives of said islands, for a period of not less 
than eight months in each year. 
And the said lessees further covenant and agree not to kill upon said Island of St. 
Paul more than 75,000 fur-seals, and upon the Island of St. George not more than 25,000 
fur-seals, per annum; not to kill any fur-seals upon the islands aforesaid in any other 
month except the months of June, July, September, and October of each year; not 
to kill such seals at any time by the use of fire-arms or other means tending to drive 
the seals from said islands; not to kill any female seal or any seal less than one year 
old; not to kill any seal in the waters adjacent to said islands, or on the beaches, 
clifis. or rocks where they haul up from the sea to remain. 
And the said lessees further covenant and agree to abide by any restriction or 
limitation upon the rights to kill seals under this lease that the Act prescribes, or 
that the Secretary of the Treasury shall judge necessary for the preservation of such 
seals. 
15 And the said Jessees hereby agree that they will not in any way sell, trans- 
fer, or assign this lease, and that any transfer, sale, or assignment of the same 
shall be void or of no effect. 
And the said lessees further covenant and agree to furnish to the several masters 
of the vessels employed by them certified copies of this lease to be presented to the 
Government Revenue officers for the time being in charge of said islands, as the author- 
ity of said lessees for the landing and taking said skins. 
And the said lessees further covenant and agree that they or their agents shall not 
keep, sell, furnish, give, or dispose of any distilled spirits or spirituous liquors on 
either of the said islands to any of the natives thereof, such person not being a 
physician 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 rentals 
herein agreed to be paid by said lessees, for the comfort, maintenance, 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 said 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 fulfil all 
the provisions, requirements, and limitations of said Act, whether herein specifically 
set out or not. 
-In witness whereof, the parties aforesaid have hereunto set their hands and seals 
the day and year above written. 
WILLIAM A. RICHARDSON, 
Acting Secretary to the Treasury. 
JNO. F. MILLER, 
President Alaska Commercial Company. 
Executed in presence of— 
(Signed) J. H. SAVILLE. 
I certify the foregoing printed copy of the lease of the United States to the Alaska 
Commercial Company of the right to take fur-seals in the Territory of Alaska has 
been compared with the original on file in this Department, and is a true copy 
thereof. 
(Signed) J. H. SAVILLE, 
_ Chief Clerk, Treasury Department, 
WASHINGTON, September 3, 1870, 
