North American Commercial Co. v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI. TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT. This was an action brought by the United- States against the North American Commercial Company to recover the sum of $132,187.50, with interest, for rent reserved for the year ending April 1, 1894, under a so called lease, bearing date March 12,1890, made by the Secretary of the Treasury to the company, and for royalties upon seventy-five hundred fur seal skins taken and shipped by the company that, year in…
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CERTIORARI. TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT. This was an action brought by the United- States against the North American Commercial Company to recover the sum of $132,187.50, with interest, for rent reserved for the year ending April 1, 1894, under a so called lease, bearing date March 12,1890, made by the Secretary of the Treasury to the company, and for royalties upon seventy-five hundred fur seal skins taken and shipped by the company that, year in virtue of that instrument, and for the revenue tax of two dollars on each skin. The claim of the Government consisted of…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fuller
By'the act of July 27, 1868, c. 273, 15 Stat. 240, the laws of the United States relating to customs, commerce and navigation were extended over all the mainland, islands and waters of the territory ceded to the United States by the Emperor of Russia, March 30, 1867,’ so far as applicable, and by section six of that act it was made unlawful for any person or persons to kill any otter, mink, marten, sable or fur seal, or any other fur-bearing animal within the limits of said territory, or in the waters thereof; provided that the Secretary of the Treasury might' authorize the killing of any…
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