240 THE FUR SEALS OF THE PRIBILOF ISLANDS. 
kill or permit to be killed, so far as it can prevent, in any year a greater number of 
seals than is authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury. 
The said company further agrees that it will not permit any of its agents to keep, 
sell, give, or dispose of any distilled spirits or spirituous liquors or opium, on either 
of said islands, or the waters adjacent thereto, to any of the native inhabitants of said 
islands, such person not being a physician and furnishing the same for use as a 
medicine. 
It is understood and agreed that the number of fur seals to be taken and killed for 
their skins upon said islands by the North American Commercial Company during the 
year ending May 1, 1891, shall not exceed 60,000. 
The Secretary of the Treasury reserves the right to terminate this lease and all 
rights of the North American Commercial Company under the same at any time, on 
full and satisfactory proof that the said company has violated any of the provisions 
and agreements of this lease, or any of the laws of the United States, or any Treasury 
regulation respecting the taking of fur seals, or concerning the islands of St. George 
and St. Paul, or the inhabitants thereof. 
In witness whereof the parties have set their hands and seals the day and year 
above written. 
[SEAL. | WILLIAM WINDom, Secretary of the Treasury. 
[SEAL | NortH AMERICAN COMMERCIAL COMPANY, 
By I. LIepeEs, 
President of the North American Commercial Company. 
Attest: 
H. B. PARsons, Assistant Secretary. 
THE CONFERENCE OF FUR-SEAL EXPERTS. 
The Conference of Fur-Seal Experts, representing Great Britain, Canada, and 
the United States, convened at the city of Washington, November 10, 1897. The 
following were the delegates: On the part of Great Britain, Prof. D’Arcy Wentworth 
Thompson; on the part of Canada, Mr. James Melville Macoun; on the part of the 
United States, Hon. Charles Sumner Hamlin and Dr. David Starr Jordan. 
Mr. Hamlin was chosen president of the Conference, and Mr. George A. Clark, 
secretary of Stanford University, and Mr. Robert N. Venning, of the department of 
marine and fisheries of Canada, were appointed joint secretaries. 
Hon. John W. Foster, special commissioner in charge of the fur-seal matter for 
the United States, and Sir Louis H. Davies, minister of marine and fisheries for 
Canada, and Mr. C. I’. Frederick Adam, of the British legation, attended the sessions 
of the Conference. 
After due deliberation, on November 16, the Conference agreed to and duly signed 
the following joint statement of conclusions: 
JOINT STATEMENT OF CONCLUSIONS RESPECTING THE FUR-SEAL HERD FRE- 
QUENTING THE PRIBILOF ISLANDS IN BERING SEA. 
The undersigned, duly empowered delegates, engaged during recent years in the 
investigation of the condition and habits of the fur-seal herd frequenting the Pribilof 
