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above-stated coasts, in harbours or roads, within the before-mentioned 

 limits, and the Commander find grounds, by tlie ijresent Eeguhitiou, 

 that the ship be liable to seizure, he is to act as follows: 



§ li(>. The Commander of a Kussian vessel suspecting a foreign vessel 

 to be liable to confiscation must inquire and search the same, and find- 

 ing her guilty, take possession of her. Should the foreign vessel resist, 

 he is to employ first persuasion, then threats, and at last force, endeav- 

 ouring, however, at all events, to do this with as much reserve as pos- 

 sible. If the foreign vessel employ force against force, then he shall 

 consider tlie same as an evident enemy, and force her to surrender 

 according to the naval laws. 



§ 27. After getting everything in order and salety on board the for- 

 eign vessel, the Commander of the Kussian ship, or the officer sent by 

 him, shall demand the journal of the captured vessel, and on the spot 

 shall note down in the same that on such a day, month, and year, at such 

 an hour, and in such a place, he met such and such a foreign vessel, and 

 shall give a brief account of the circumstance, pursuit, and, finally of 

 the seizure. After signing the same he shall desire the captain of the 

 captured vessel to confirm the same in his own handwriting. Should 

 he, however, refuse to sign the same, the Russian officer is to repeat his 

 summons in presence of all the officers, and if on this it be again 

 refused, and nobody will sign in lieu of the captain, he is then to 

 add this circumstance, signed by himself. After this arrangement, the 

 journal, list of the crew, passports, invoices, accounts, and all I'urther 

 l)apers res])ecting the views and i)ursuits of the voyage of the vessel, 

 shall be put up in one ])arcel, as well as all private papers, viz., the 

 journals of the ofhcers, letters, &c., and sealed with the seals of the 

 liussian officer, and those of the captain and first officer of the foreign 

 vessel. This packet shall remain sealed with the Commander of 

 6 the JIussian vessel until their arrival at the port of St. Peter and 



Paul, where it shall be deposited in the Court as mentioned in § 33. 

 Besides this, everything else must be sealed by the Eussian otticerand 

 the foreign captain that is not requisite for the continuation of the 

 voyage to the i)ort of St. l*eter and I'aul, excepting the efiects for 

 immediate and sole use of the ship's crew, which shall not be withheld 

 from them. 



§ lis. Having thus fixed all means of precaution, the officer sent to 

 arrest the foreign vessel shall nuike instantly his rei)0rt to his Chief, 

 and await his orders. 



§ 21). Titus, should by any cause stated in the 2nd, 11th, 12th, and 

 21st sections of these Eegulations, a foreign vessel be subjected to con- 

 fiscation in any port near the Settlement of the Russian- American 

 Comi)any, the Comnuinder of that Settlement is obliged either to ask 

 the assistance of the Russian man-of-war, if there be any, and the 

 Commander of which, on receipt of a written request, is obliged to 

 arrest the vessel, and use all the precautious prescribed in the forego- 

 ing Article, or, if there be no Russian man-of-war in the harbour or its 

 neighbourhood, ai.d tlie Commander of the Settlement find that he and 

 his people can arrest the vessel by themselves, he then is to act accord- 

 ing to the 2()th, 27th, and 28tli sections, and putting ashore the captain, 

 and every means of getting the vessel away, he must endeavour as soon 

 as possible to give information of this event either to the Governor of 

 the Colonies of the Russian-American Company or the Commander of 

 the Imperial man-of-war, if it be known where she lie. 



§ 30. When, in conse(|uence of such a report, the Governor of the 

 Colonies shall send the Company's vessel, or a Government vessel arriv- 



