APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 491 



No. 17. 



Mr. Hoffman to Mr. Frelinghuysen. — {Eeceived July 3.) 



Legation of the United States, 



St. Petrrsburf/h, June 14, 1882. 

 Sir: Eeferriug to my No. 228, I have the honour to forward to you 

 herewith a traiishitiou of a note and inclosure received yesterday from 

 M. de Giers upon the subject of fishing and hunting- In the Eussian 

 Pacific waters. As far as I am at present informed, the Department 

 has now before it the whole legislation of Russia upon tlie subject. 

 I am, &c. 



(Signed) Wickham Hoffman. 



[Inclosure 1 in No. 17.— Translation.] 



M. de Gicrs to Mr. Hoffman. 



Ministry of Forkign Affairs, Asiatic Department, 



June 1 {13) 1882. 

 Sir: In couseqnence of the note which you addressed to me ou the 13th (2;')th) 

 May, relative to fishing and hunting in ourPacific waters, and in whicli you exj)iessed 

 the desire to have a translation of the Articles of our Code which govern the matter, 

 I have the honour to transmit to you herewith a translation of Articles 5(30, &c., of 

 the Code, Vol. XII, Part II. 



Receive, ika. Giers. 



[Inclosure 2 in No. 17. — Translation.] 

 Artidea 660, 561, 662, 665, and 571 of the liussian Code, Vol. XII, Part II. 



Article 560. The maritime waters, even when they wash the shores where there is 

 a permanent population, cannot be the suljject of private possession ; they are open 

 to the use of one and all. 



Art. 561. No exception Avill be made to this general rule, except under the form of 

 special privileges granted for the right of fishing in certain fixed localities and during 

 limited periods. 



Art. 562. The above Regulation regarding the right of fishing and analogous 

 occupations on the seas extends equally to all lakes which do not belong to private 

 properties. 



Art. 565. No restriction shall be established as regards the apparatus (engines) 

 employed for fishing and for analogous occupations in the high seas, and it shall be 

 permitted to every one to use for this purpose such apparatus as he shall judge to be 

 best according to the circumstances of the locality. 



Art. 571. Ships in quarantine are not permitted to fish. The same prohibition 

 extends in general to all persona in those localities where ships are lying undergoing 

 quarantine. 



21 No. 18. 



Mr. Lothrop to Mr. Bayard. — {Received March 7.) 



Legation of the United States, 



St. Fetershurgh, February 17, 1887. 

 Sir: In compliance with the instructions of your despatch No. G5 of 

 the 4th December last, 1 addressed a note on the 22ud of December to 

 the Imperial Minister for Foreign Affairs, asking for the facts and 

 grounds on which the American schooner " Henrietta" was seized and 

 confiscated off East Cape, in Behriug Straits, ou the 24th August last. 



