APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 487 



[Inclosure 2 in No. 13.] 



CIRCULAR TO UNITED STATES COLLECTORS OF CUSTOMS. 



Fermit required for Hmiiing, Trading, and Fishing on Bu8sian Coasts of the Okhotsk and 



Behriitg Seas. 



Treasury Department, Office of the Secretary, 



Washington, D. C, January SO, 1S82. 

 To Collectors of Customs and others: 



The subjoined Notice by the Russian Consul at Yoliohama, that American vessels 

 are not allowed, without a special permit or licence from the Governor-General of 

 Eastern Siberia, "to carry on hunting, trading, hshing, &c., on the Russian coasts, 

 or islands in the Okliotsic or Behring Seas, or on the north-eastern coast of Asia., or 

 within the sea-boundary line," is published by the Department for the information 

 of American ship-nuisters interested. 



It w ill be observed that the Russian Order took effect on the Ist January, 1882. 



(Signed) Chas. J. Folger, Secretary 



[Inclosure 3 in No. 13.] 



Notice issued by Bussian Consul at Yokohama, 



At the request of the local authorities of Behring and other islands, the Under- 

 signed hereby notities that the Russian Imperial Government publishes, for general 

 knowledge, tlie following: 



1. Without a special permit or licence from the Governor-General of Eastern 

 Siberia, foreign vessels are not allowed to carry on trading, hunting, fishing, &c., 

 on the Russian coast or islands in the Okhotsk and 'Behring Seas, or on the iiorth- 

 eastern coast of Asia, or Avithin tlieir sea-boundary line. 



2. For such permits or licences, foreign vessels should apply to Vladivostok, 

 exclusively. 



3. In the port of Petropaulovsk, though being the only port of entry in Kam- 

 tchatka, such permits or licences sliall not be issued. 



4. No permits or licences whatever shall be issued for hunting, fishing, or trading 

 at or on the Commodore and Robben Islands. 



5. Foreign vessels found trading, fishing, hunting, «fec., in Russian waters, with- 

 out a licence or permit from the Governor-General, and also those possessing a licence 

 or permit who may infringe the existing bye-laws on hunting, shall be conhscajed, 

 both vessels and cargoes, for the benelit of the Government. This enactment shall 

 be enforced henceforth, commencing with a. d. 1882. 



6. The enforcement of the above will be intrusted to Russian men-of-war, and also 

 to Russian merchant-vessels, which, for that purpose, will carry military detach- 

 ments and be jirovided with proper instructious. 



(Signed) A. Pelxkan, 



His Imperial Russian Majesty's Consul. 

 Yokohama, Novcmher 15, 1S81. 



18 [Inclosure 4 in No. 13.] 



Mr. Folger to Mr. Frelinghuysen, 



Treasury Depart.ment, February S4, 188S. 

 Sir: I have the honour to inclose herewith, for such action in the case as you may 

 deem proper, a letter from Messrs. Lyndo and Hough, of San Francisco, California, 

 stating that they are extensively engaged in the Pacific coast cod fisheries, and that 

 they will fit out their vessels to sail about the 1st May next in that enterprise, in 

 which they have never been molested; but they now learn that foreign vessels must 

 receive an order from the Governor of Siberia, besides pay a duty of 10 dollars per 

 ton on all fish caught in Russian waters, which, if sustained, will be ruinous. 

 Very respectfully, 



(Signed) Chas. J. Folger, Secretary, 



