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9. In liauding over so large an extent of territory to be administered by the Com- 

 pany, the Emperor grants to the latter the following advantages, in order to enable 

 it the better to carry out the objects of the Government, by encouraging the Com- 

 pany's officials in all its factories and dependencies botli inland and on the sea-coast, 

 its managers, book-keepers, cashiers, and their deputies, supercargoes, shipping 



clerks, and others: 

 10 (1) The Chief Manager, on appointment to the office, shall, if he be a mili- 



tary officer or belong to the Civil Service, enjoy the precedence defined by the 

 Ukase of the 21st March, 1810, conceruiug officials appointed to the Siberian Gov- 

 ernments. 



(2) With regard to Government officials whose services are applied for temporarily 

 in accordance with the Ukase of the 9th April, 1802, they are to be considered as 

 being on active service so far as all rewards are coucerued; they shall, however, 

 receive promotion in official rank according to their seniority and merit at the post 

 which they actually occupy. They shall continue to draw half their pay and allow- 

 ances, in accordance with the terms of the same Ukase. 



(3) Retired Government officials, on entering the service of the Company, shall 

 retain their general official rank, and shall be considered to be on active service. 

 This right is extended also to those who have served the Company in any capacity 

 subsequently to the grant of the privileges by the Emperor in 1799. Those persons 

 who belong to (social) classes having the right to enter the Government service, but 

 who have not served, and have no official rank, shall, after serving the Conipauy for 

 two years, obtain the rank of Collegiate Registrar, on application being made on 

 their behalf by the Administration of the Company, and shall be promoted to tlie 

 higher official ranks by length of service, aceonliug to the General Ruk's; on retire- 

 ment they shall retain their rank only if they have held it for at least five years, 

 and if the Administration bears testimony to their abilities and value. 



(*} Persons in the employment of the Company who belong to (social) classes 

 which have not the right to enter the Government service, shall not, until they are 

 taken out of those classes, be on the same footing as those referred to in (3). But if 

 they ludd the appointment of a Manager of a station, they shall, duriug the time 

 that they occupy the post, enjoy the privileges of the ninth official class, that is. of 

 Titular Councillor ; with regard to persons holding a])|)()iutnients as book-keepers, 

 cashiers, their assistants, supercargoes, &c., the Atlministratiou is authorized to 

 place them in any official class between the fourteenth and ninth according to their 

 abilities and value; but none of these officials shall, on vacating their posts and 

 leaving the service of the Company, retain the precedence of their official class, 

 unless they have been taken out of the (social) class to which they originally 

 belonged, and have fulfilled all the conditions prescribed by the General Regulations 

 on the subject, and unless they have served the Company for at least twelve years 

 and are certiticd, on their retirement, to be deserving aud capalile. 



10. In accordance with the Ukases of the Ruling Senate, dated the 16th February, 

 1801, 6th April, 1805, and 20th March, 1808, the Company may take into its employ, 

 in any Government of the Russian Empire, for service at sea, or for the exercise of 

 industries, or to serve in its factories, persons with or without means, being free and 

 of good reputation, and furnished with ordinary passports, or workmen's passports; 

 and the authorities of the Governments shall be instructed to give to all such per- 

 sons engaged by the Company passports to run for jn-riods from one year to seven 

 years, as the Compauy may wish; and the Company shall pay the dues and fees on 

 behalf of such persons to the proper authorities. 



11. If any persons in the emjiloymeut of the Company, on the expiration of the 

 periods of service agreed upon with them, wish to remain in its service in America, or 

 if they owe money to the Company, the latter shall not be obliged to send them hack 

 to Russia, but new passi)orts shall be granted to them, on the application of the 

 Company; such applicatious must, however, be accompanied by proofs in writing 

 that the persons concerned consent to remain in America for one of the reasons speci- 

 fied above. The documents must be signed by them, or, if they cannot write, by 

 some other person at their request and before two witnesses. 



12. All persons in the employment of the Company are bound to obey implicitly 

 the orders of their superiors, and are answerable to the Company for all losses caused 

 by their fault. The Courts will compel all such persons to give an account of their 

 proceedings, and, on the applicaticm of the Administration of the Company, will, 

 without loss of time, subject them to a legal inquiry. Such persons may, however, 

 appeal to the Ruling Senate, such appeal to be lodged within six months from the 

 date on which they have been infonned of the decision arrived at. 



13. No Court or Governor of a town shall, under any circumstances, compel any 

 station or agency established by the Company to make any payment, unless expla- 

 nations have previously been called for from such station or agency, or unless it has 

 been authorized to make the payment by the Administration of the Company, to 

 which all such demands should be addressed. 



