such lease, to be paid into the treasury of the United States ; and the 
Secretary of the Treasury is hereby empowered ancl authorized to make 
all needful rules and regulations for the collection and payment of the 
same, for the comfort, maintenance, education, and protection of the 
natives of said islands, and also for carrying into full effect all the pro¬ 
visions of this act: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Treas¬ 
ury may terminate any lease given to any person, company, or corpo¬ 
ration on full and satisfactory proof of the violation of any of the pro¬ 
visions of this act or the rules and regulations established by him: 
Provided further, that the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized 
to deliver to the owners the fur-seal skins now stored on the islands, on the 
payment of one dollar for each of said skins taken and, shipped away by 
said owners. 
Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of the seventh 
and eighth sections of “ An act to extend the laws of the United States 
relating to customs, commerce, and navigation over the territory ceded 
to United States by Russia, to establish a collection district therein, and 
for other purposes,” approved July twenty-seven, eighteen hundred 
and sixty-eight, shall be deemed to apply to this act; and all prosecu¬ 
tions for offences committed against the provisions of this act, and all 
other proceedings had because of the violations of the provisions of this 
act, and which are authorized by said act above mentioned, shall be in 
accordance with the provisions thereof; and all acts and parts of acts 
inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. 
Sec. 8 . And be it further enacted, That the Congress may at anytime 
hereafter alter, amend, or repeal this act. 
This bill of pains and penalties, so loose in the letter, and so 
stringent in its spirit, prohibits the killing of seals even in the 
adjacent ivaters , or on the cliffs or rocks where they haul up from 
the sea to remain. This law has already become an engine of 
much annoyance to our citizens around Alaska. The Secretary 
of the Treasury has construed it in such a spirit as to exclude 
all American fishermen frdm the seal fisheries in the North Pa¬ 
cific Ocean. Instructions, carrying out these restrictions, have 
been issued to all the revenue officers on the north-west coast; 
we append the official Ukase of the Collector of San Francisco, 
and humbly invite the careful attention of our readers to this 
Card: 
Custom House, San Francisco, California, ) 
Collector’s Office, September 28, 1870. 5 
Notice. — In compliance with an order of the Hon. Secretary of the 
Treasury, notice is hereby given that a lease of the Islands of St. Paul 
and St. George, in the Territory of Alaska, has been executed by the 
Secretary of the Treasury to the Alaska Commercial Company, for the 
period of twenty years, from the 1st day of May, 1870, in accordance 
with the provisions of an Act of Congress, entitled “ An Act to Prevent 
