224 APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



14. If a shareholder of the Company owes money to the Government, or to private 

 persons, and his estate, apart from his share in the Company, is not sufficient to cover 

 the debt, the debtor's capital which is in the hands of the Company under the Reg- 

 ulations drawn up for it shall become, to the extent of the debt, the property of the 

 (Government, or of his creditors, together with all profits not yet distributed belong- 

 ing to his share of the Company's capital; and the Company shall accordingly 

 transfer the capital to the Government, or to the creditors, in accordance with the 

 notice given by the Government, or with the decree of a Court of Justice assigning 

 the amount of the debt, as the case may be. 



15. Tlie Company's shares may, in accordance with the decision of the Committee 

 of Ministers of the 19th September, 1814, be mortgaged to the Government to 



11 the extent of half their value. If the property of the owner of the shares is 

 attached, and he is unable to pay off the mortgage, the shares shall be sold 

 by public auction. Any surplus there may be after the amount for which the shares 

 were mortgaged is paid shall be handed to the owner; if less than the amount of 

 the mortgage is realized, the Government have the option of kefijiiug the shares; 

 otherwise the Company will at once pay the amount of the mortgage to the Govern- 

 ment, and take over the shares. 



16. If a dispute, in connection with the business or accounts of the Company, 

 arises between the Company and one of its shareholders of so serious a character 

 that it cannot be speedily arranged in an amicable manner, such dispute shall be 

 inquired into and settled by a general meeting of the shareholders who have aright 

 to vote; the shareholder with whom the dispute has arisen shall be present. The 

 decision of the meeting shall be carried out without delay; but, if the shareholder 

 considers himself aggrieved, ho may appeal to the Ruling Senate, such appeal to be 

 lodged within six months from the day on which he has been informed of the decision. 



17. The Emperor is pleased to allow the Russian-American Company to take on 

 board its ships which are sent round the world from Cronstadt, or dispatched from 

 Okhotsk to the Russian Colonies, cargoes of Russian or foreign products on which 

 duty has been paid, and when they return from those Colonies with cargoes of furs 

 and other colonial products, to unload them without hindrance, on notice being given 

 of such cargoes at Cronstadt by the Administration of the Company to the custom- 

 house, and at Okhotsk by its agent to the local authorities. No duty is to be paid on 

 either of these classes of merchandize when taken from one Russian port to another, 

 except when, in the case of furs, a special internal duty is fixed by law. 



18. Although it is forbidden by Imperial Ukases to cut wood in any forest belong- 

 ing to the State without the permission of the Department of Forests, nevertheless, 

 in view of the distance of the Okhotsk territory, where the Company requires wood 

 for repairing its ships, and sometimes for building new ones, it is authorized to cut 

 wood for those purposes in any part of that territory without making payment for 

 the same, provided that information is given, without delay, to the Forest Department 

 of the territory, both of the place chosen for cutting the wood, and of the amount 

 and quality of the wood cut. 



19. In case communications by sea between the Colonies and European Russia are 

 interrupted, the Company may obtain from the Government Artillery Stores at 

 Irkutsk from 40 to 80 poods of gunpowder a-year, and from the mines at Nertshinsk 

 np to 200 poods of lead a-year, to be used for shooting game, for signalling at sea, 

 and in unforeseen contingencies. The proi)er price must be paid in ready money. 



20. In order to enable the Company to carry on its operations without interrup- 

 tion or molestation, the privilege of exemption from the quartering of troops is 

 gianted in the case of all buildings used for factories by the Company. 



In conclusion, all civil and military authorities, and all Courts of Justice, are 

 ordered not only not to interfere with the enjoyment by the Coin])any of the i)rivi- 

 leges hereby granted to it, but also, if necessary, to guard it from losses or damage, 

 and to give all the protection and assistance they can to the Administration of the 

 Comjiany, and to the stations and agencies belougiug to it. 



KEGULATIONS OF THE RUSSIAN-AMERICAN COMPANY.* 



GENERAL PROVISIONS. 



§ 1. [Description of the Company.] 



§ 2. I'Orioin of the Company. ]^iimber of shares.] 



§ 3. [Persons aHowed to liold shares.] 



§ 4. I Form of shares.] 



§ 5. I Limited liability.] 



§ 0. I Transfers of sliares.] 



§ 7. [Division of profits.] 



*Tlie portions in brackets are abstracts. 



