238 THE FUR SEALS OF THE PRIBILOF ISLANDS. 
And the said lessees further covenant and agree that they or their agents shall 
not keep, sell, furnish, give, or dispose of any distilled spirituous liquors on either of 
said islands to any of the natives thereof, such person not being a physician and 
furnishing the same for use as inedicine. 
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 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 fulfill 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. 
[SEAL.] WILLIAM A. RICHARDSON, 
Acting Secretary of the Treasury. 
[SEAL. | ALASKA COMMERCIAL COMPANY, 
By JoHN F. MILLER, President. 
Executed in presence of— 
J. H. SAVILLE. 
COPY OF CONTRACT BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND THE NORTH AMERICAN 
COMMERCIAL COMPANY, UNDER WHICH SAID COMPANY IS GRANTED THE 
EXCLUSIVE RIGHT 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 presideut, in accordance with a resolution of said corporation adopted 
at a meeting of its board of directors held January 4, 1890, witnesseth: 
That 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 right to 
engage in the business of taking fur seals on the islands of St. George 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 Company, 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 the Treasurer of the United States each year during the said term of 
twenty years, as annual rental, the sun of sixty thousand dollars, and in addition 
thereto agrees to pay the revenue tax, or duty, of two dollars laid upon each fur-seal 
