274 ALASKA. 



REGULATIONS. 



Office Alaska Commeectal Compant, 



San Francisco, January, 1872 

 The following regulations are prescribed for the guidance of 

 all concerned : 



1. The general management of the company's affairs on the 

 islands of Saint Paul's and Saint George's is intrusted to one 

 general agent, whose lawful orders and directions must be im- 

 plicitly obeyed by all subordinate agents and employes. 



2. Seals can only be taken on the islands during the months 

 of June, July, September, and October in each year, except 

 those killed by the native inhabitants, for food and clothing, 

 under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. 



Female seals and seals less than one year old will not be 

 killed at any time, and the killing of seals in the waters sur- 

 rounding the islands, or on or about the rookeries, beaches, 

 cliffs, or rocks, where they haul up from the sea to remain, or 

 by the use of fire-arms, or any other means tending to drive 

 the seals away from the islands, is expressly forbidden. 



3. The use of fire-arms on the islands, during the period from 

 the first arrival of seals in the spring-season until they dis' 

 appear from the islands in autumn, is prohibited. 



4. No dogs will be permitted on the islands. 



5. No person will be permitted to kill seals for their skins 

 on the islands, except under the supervision and authority of 

 the agents of the company. 



6. No vessels other than those employed by the company, or 

 vessels of the United States, will be permitted to touch at the 

 islands, or to land any persons or merchandise thereon, except 

 in cases of shipwreck or vessels in distress. 



7. The number of seals which may be annually killed for 

 their skins on Saint Paul's Island is limited to seventy-five 

 thousand, and the number which maj' be so killed on Saint 

 George's Island is limited to twenty-five thousand. 



8. No persons other than American citizens, or the Aleutian 

 inhabitants of said islands, will be employed by the company 

 on the islands in any capacity. 



