42 CASE OF GREAT l^ITAIN. 



High Contracting Powpi.s, from bocoiuing the pretext for an illicit 

 trade, it is agreed that the citizens of the United States shnll not 

 resort to any point ■where there is a Ivussian Establishment, wifchont 

 the permission of the (Jovcruoror Commander; and that, reciprocally, 

 the subjects of Russia shall not resort, "without permission, to any 

 Establishment of the United States npon the north-west coast. 



Akticlk III. 



It is, moreover, agreed that hereafter tliere shall not be formed by 

 the citizens of the United States, or under the authority of the said 

 States, any Establishment npon the north-west coast of America, nor 

 in any of the islands adjacent, to the north of 54"^ 40' of north latitude ; 

 and that, in the same manner there shall be none formed by Russian 

 subjects, or under the authority of Russia, south of the same parallel. 



Article IV. 



It is, nevertheless, understood that, during a term of ten years, 

 counting from the signature of the present Convention, the ships of 

 both Powers, or which belong to their citizens or subjects respectively, 

 may reciprocally frennent, without any hindrance whatever, the inte- 

 rior seas, gulfs, harbours, and creeks npon the coast mentioned in the 

 preceding Article, for the purpose of tishing and trading Avith the 

 natives of the country. 



5.3 Articlk V. 



All spirituous liquors, firearms, other arms, powder, and munitions 

 of war of every kind are always excepted from this same commerce 

 permitted by the preceding Article; and the two Powers engage re- 

 ciprocally neither to sell, or suffer them to bo sold to the natives, by 

 their res])ective citizens and subjects, nor by any person Avho may bo 

 nndcr their authority. It is likewise stipulated that this restriction 

 shall never afford a pretext, nor be advanced, in any case, to authorize 

 either search or detentiou of the vessels, seizure of the merchandize, 

 or, in tine, any measures of constraint whatever towards the mer- 

 chants or the crews who may carry on this commerce; the High Con- 

 tracting Powers reci])r()cally res('r\ing to themselves to determine 

 npon the penalties to be incurred, and to inflict the punishments in 

 case of the contravention of this Article, by their respective citizens 

 or subjects. 



Article VI. 



When this Conveution shall have been duly ratified by the Presi- 

 dent of the United States, with the advice and consent of the Senate 

 on the one part, and ou the other, by His Majesty the Emperor of all 

 the Russias, the ratifications shall bo exchanged at Washington in the 

 space often months from the date below, or sooner if possible. 



In faith whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed this 

 Convention, and thereto affixed the seals of their arms. 



Done at St. Pctersburgh the 5th (17th) April iu the vear of (irace 

 1824. 



[l. s.] Henry Middleton, 



[l. s.] Le Corato C. f e Nessklhode. 



[l. s.] Pierre de Poletica. 



CONVENTION BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND RUSSIA. 



TREATY ((iREAT I5RITAIX AND RUSSIA), EEHRt'ARY 25, 1825 



ForFrenchtext The iiogotiations between Grejit Britain and Rnssia 

 voLiiA^u't'iu, resnlted in the Convention of the 28th of Febrnary, 1825. 

 ^""•2- The following- is the I'^nglish translation of this con- 



vention : 



NA\'I('.Ari(>N OK l'A(;iFIC TO HK EREE. 



Article I. 



Spo P.hio Book, It is agreed that the rtispectivo subjects of the High (Contracting 

 "United stiitfs Parties shall not bo troubled or molested in any ])art of the ocean. 

 No. 1 (1891)," i(. (jommonly called the Pacific Ocean, cither in navigating the sauu', in 



Appendix v,,]. Wishing therein, or in landing at such parts of the coast as shall not 

 iii. ' have been already occupied, in order to trade with the natives, under 



the restrictions and conditions si)ecified iu the following Articles. 



