GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



No. Pago. 



1. Uk.ise of the 4tli Si^ptember, 1821, with Rules for the Limits of Navigation 



and ()r(l(M' of Coniuiunication 3 



2. Ukase of tlie 13th September, 1821, with Privileges granted to Russian-Ameri- 



can Couqiany for twenty years, and Rtgnlations of the Company 9 



3. Extract from the "' Quarterly Review" of January 1822 respecting A^oyage of 



KoLzebue in 1815-18 14 



4. Extract from the "North American Review" of October 1822 res])ecting 



Correspondence communicated to United States House of Representatives 

 on the question of the Claims of Russia 26 



5. Extracts from the Works of P. Tikhmenieti' 39 



6. Si>eech of the Honourable Charles Suumer, of Massachusetts, in the United 



States Senate, respecting the Cession of Russian America to the United 

 States 43 



7. Lease of the Islands of St. Paul and St. George to the Alaska Commercial 



Company, San Francisco, let May, 1870 90 



8. Article from the "Forum," November 18'^9, by Professor James B. Angell, 



relating to American Rights in Behriug Sea 92 



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