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skin taken and shipped by it from said islands of St. George and St. Paul, and also 
to pay to said Treasurer the further sum of seven dollars sixty-two and one-half 
cents apiece for each and every fur-seal skin taken and shipped from said islands, aud 
also to pay the sum of fifty cents per gallon for each gallon of oil sold by it made 
from seals that may be taken on said islands during the said period of twenty years; 
and to secure the prompt payment of the sixty thousand dollars rental above referred 
to, the said company agrees to deposit with the Secretary of the Treasury bonds of 
the United States to the amount of fifty thousand dollars, face value, to be held as a 
guarantee for the annual payment of said sixty thousand dollars rental, the interest 
thereon when due to becollected and paid to the North American Commercial Company, 
provided the said company is not in default of payment of any part of the said sixty 
thousand dollars rental. 
That it will furnish to the native inhabitants of said islands of St. George and 
St. Paul annually such quantity or number of dried salmon, and such quantity of salt 
and such number of salt barrels for preserving their necessary supply of meat as the 
Secretary of the Treasury shall from time to time determine. 
That it will also furnish to the said inhabitants eighty tons of coal annually, and 
a sufficient number of comfortable dwellings in which said native inhabitants may 
reside; and will keep said dwellings in proper repair; and will also provide and keep 
in repair such suitable schoolhouses as may be necessary, and will establish and 
maintain during eight months of each year proper schools for the education of the 
children on said islands, the same to be taught by competent teachers, who shall be 
paid by the company a fair compensation, all to the satisfaction of the Secretary of 
the Treasury; and will also provide and maintain a suitable house for religious 
worship; and will also provide a competent physician or physicians, and necessary 
and proper medicines and medical supplies; and will also provide the necessaries of 
life for the widows and orphans and aged and infirm inhabitants of said islands who 
are unable to provide for themselves ; all of which foregoing agreements will be done 
and performed by the said company free of all costs and charges to said native 
inhabitants of said islands or to the United States. 
The annual rental, together with all other payments to the United States provided 
for in this lease, shall be made and paid on or before the 1st day of April of each and 
every year during the existence of this lease, beginning with the 1st day of April, 1891. 
The said company further agrees to employ the native inhabitants of said islands 
to perform such labor upon the islands as they are fitted to perform, and to pay 
therefor a fair and just compensation, such as may be fixed by the Secretary of the 
Treasury, and also to contribute, as far as is in its power, all reasonable efforts to 
secure the comfort, health, education, and promote the morals and civilization of said 
native inhabitants. 
The said company also agrees faithfully to obey and abide by all rules and regula- 
tions that the Secretary of the Treasury has heretofore or may hereafter establish or 
make in pursuance of law concerning the taking of seals of said islands, and concerning 
the comfort, morals, and other interests of said inhabitants, and all matters pertaining 
to said islands and the taking of seals within the possession of the United States. It 
also agrees to obey and abide by any restrictions or limitations upon the right to kill 
seals that the Secretary of the Treasury shall judge necessary, under the law, for the 
preservation of the seal fisheries of the United States; and it agrees that it will not 
