BEHRmG SEA AEBITRATION. 



APPENDIX TO CASE OF HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT. 



VOL. I. 



No. 1. 



UKASE OF SEPTEMBER 4, 1821. 

 EDICT OF HTS OIPERIAL MAJESTY, AUTOCRAT OP ALL THE RUSSTAS. 



The directing Senate inaketli kuown unto all men: 



Whereas in an Edict of His Imperial Majesty issued to the directing 

 Senate on the 4th day of September, and signed by His Majesty's own 

 liand, it is thus expressed: 



Obscrviiitj, from Reports submitted to us, that the trade of our subjects ou the 

 Aleutian Islands and on the north-west coast of America, appertaininej unto Russia, is 

 subject, because of secret and illicit trafiSc, to oppression and impediments; and 

 fimiin.i;- that the priiu-ipal cause of these; difficulties is the want of rules establishing 

 tbe boundaries for navigation along these coasts, and the order of naval communi- 

 cation, as well in these places as on the whole of the eastern coast of Siberia and 

 the Kurile Islands, we have deemed it necessary to determine these communications 

 by spocihc Regulations, which are hereto attached. 



In forwarding these Regulations to the directing Senate, we command that the 

 same be published for universal information, and that the proper measures be taken 

 to carry them into execution. 



(Signed) Count D. Gurieff, 



Minister of Finances. 



It is therefore decreed by the directing Senate that His Imperial 

 Majesty's Edict be jiublished for the information of all men, and that 

 the same be obeyed by all whom it may coiu^ern. 



[The original is signed by the directing Senate.] 



Printed at St. Petersburgh. In the Semite, tlie 7th September, 1821. 



[On the original is written, in the handwriting of His Imperial Maj- 

 esty, thus:] 



Be it accordingly. 



(Signed) Alexander. 



Kamennoy Ostroff, September 4, 1821. 



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