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native inhabitants, their comfort, maintenance, and education, as well as to the in- 

 terests of the parties heretofore enn;aged iu trade and the protection of the fisheries, 

 the right of taking fur-seals on the islands herein named, and of sending a vessel or 

 vessels to the islands for the skins of such seals, for the term of twenty years, at an 

 annual rental of not less than fifty thousand dollars, to be reserved in such lease and 

 secured by a deposit of United States bonds to that amount; and every such lease 

 shall be duly executed in duplicate, and shall not be transferable. 



Sec. 1964. The Secretary of tho Treasury shall take from the lessees of such islands 

 in all cases abend, with securities, in a sum not less than five hundred thousand 

 dollars, conditioned for the faithful observance ot all the laws and requirements of 

 Congress, and the regulations of the Secretary of Treasury, touching the taking of 

 fur seals and the disposing of the same, and for the payment of all taxes and dues ac- 

 cruing to the United States connected therewith. 



Sec. 1965. No persons other than American citizens shall be permitted, by lease or 

 otherwise, to occupy the islands of St. Paul and St. George, or either of them, for the 

 purpose of taking the skins of fur-seals therefrom, nor shall any foreign vessels be 

 engaged in taking such skins; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall vacate and 

 declare any lease forfeited if the same be held or operated for the use, benefit, or 

 advantage, directly or indirectly, of any persons other than American citizens. 



Sec. 1966. Every lease shall contain a covenant on the part of the lessee that he 

 will not keep, sell, furnish, give, or dispose of any distilled spirits or spirituous 

 liquors on either of those islands to any of the natives thereof, such person not being 

 a physician and furnishing the same for use as mediciije ; and every revenue officer, 

 officially acting as such, on either of the islands, shall seize and destroy any distilled 

 or spirituous liquors found thereon ; but such officer shall make detailed reports of 

 his doings in that matter to the collector of the port. 



Sec. 1967. Every person who kills any fur-seal on either of those islands, or in the 

 waters adjacent thereto, without authority of the lessees thereof, and every person 

 who molests, disturbs, or interferes with the lessees, or either of them, or their agents 

 or employes, in the lawful prosecution of their business, under the provisions of this 

 chapter, shall for each offense be punished as prescribed in section nineteen hundred 

 and sixty-one ; and all vessels, their tackle, apparel, appurtenances, and cargo, whose 

 crews are found engaged iu any violation of the provisions of sections nineteen hun- 

 dred and sixty-five to nineteen hundred and sixty-eight, inclusive, shall be forfeited 

 to the United States. 



Sec. 1968. If any person or company, under any lea^e herein authorized, knowingly 

 kills, or permits to be killed, any number of seals exceeding the number for each 

 island in this chapter prescribed, such person or company shall, in addition to the 

 ])enalties and forfeitures herein provided, forfeit the whole number of the skins of 

 seals killed in that year, or, iu case the same may have been disposed of, then such 

 person or comxjany shall forfeit the value of the same. 



Sec. 1969. In addition to the annual rental required to be reserved in every lease, 

 as provided in section nineteen hundred and sixty-three, a revenue tax or duty of 

 two dollai's is laid upon each fur-seal vskin taken and shipped from the islands of St. 

 Paul and St. George, during the continuance of any lease, to be paid into the Treas- 

 ury of the United States; and the Secretary of the Treasury is em}»owered to make 

 all needful regulations for the collection and payment of the same, and to secure the 

 comfort, maintenance, education, and protection of the natives of those islands, and 

 also to carry into full effect all the provisions of this chapter except as otherwihc pre- 

 scribed. 



Sec. 1970. The Secretary of the Treasury may terminate any lease given to any 

 person, company, or cori^oration on full and satisfactory proof of the violation of any 

 of the provisions of this chapter or the regulations established by him. 



Sec. 1971. The lessees shall furnish to the several masters of Vessels employed by 

 them certified copies of the lease held by them respectively, which shall be presented 

 to the Government revenue officer for the time being who may be in charge at the 

 islands a« the authority of the party for landing and taking skins. 



Sec. 197*2. Congress may at any time hereafter alter, amend, or repeal sections from 

 nineteen hundred and sixty to nineteen hundred and seventy-one, both inclusive, of 

 this chapter. 



Sec. 1978. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to appoint one agent and 

 three assistant agents, who shall be charged with the management of the sealfisheries 

 in Alaska, and the performance of such other duties as may be assigned to them by 

 the Secretary of the Treasury. 



Sec. 1974. The agent shall receive the sum of ten dollars each day, one assistant 

 agent the sum of eight dollars each day, and two assistant agents the sum of six dol- 

 lars each day while so employed; and they shall also be allowed their necessary 

 traveling expenses in going to and returning from Alaska, for which expenses vouch- 

 ers shall be presented to the proper accounting officers of the Treasury ; and such 

 expenses shall not exceed in the aggregate six hundred dollars each in any one year. 



