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Xo. 3. 

 TREATY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND RUSSIA. 



[Signed at Washington, Marcli 30, 1867 — Englisli version.] 



By thp: Pkesidext ok the United States of America. 



A PROCLAMATION. 



AVhereas a Treaty between the United. States of America and His 

 Majesty the Emperor of All the Kussias was concluded and signed by 

 their respective Plenipotentiaries at the city of Washington, on the 

 30th day of March last, which Treaty, being in the English and French 

 languages, is word for word as follows: 



The United States of America and His Majesty the Emperor of All the Russias, 

 being desirous of strengthening, if possible, the good understanding which exists 

 between them, have, for that purpose, appointed as their Plenipotentiaries: 



The President of the United States, William II. Seward, Secretary of State; 



And His Majesty the Emperor of All the Russias, the Privy Councillor Edward 

 de Stoeckl, his Envoy Extraordinaiy and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United 

 States. 



And the said Plenipotentiaries, having exchanged their full powers, which were 

 found to be in due form, have agreed upon and signed the following Articles: 



Article I. 



His Majesty the Emperor of All the Russias agrees to cede to the United States, 

 by this Convention, immediately upon the exchange of the ratilicatious thereof, all 

 the territory and dominion now possessed by his said ^lajesty on the continent of 

 America and in the adjacent islands, the same being contained within the geograph- 

 ical limits herein set forth, to wit: The eastern limit is the line of demarcation 

 between the Russian and the British possessions in North America, as established by 

 the Convention between Russia and Great Britain, of the Ifith (28th) Februar}-, 

 1825, and described in Articles III and IV of said Convention, in the followiuo" 

 terms : 



"Commencing from the southernmost point of the island, called Prince of Wales. 

 Island, which point lies in the i)araJlel of 54'^ 40' north latitude, and betweei 

 5 the ISist and the 133rd degree of west longitude (meridian of Greenwich), the 



said line shall ascend to the north along the channel called Portland Channel, 

 as far as the point of the continent where it strikes the .56th degree of north lati- 

 tude ; from this last-mentioned point, the line of demarcation shall follow the suui- 

 uiit of the mountains situated parallel to the coast as far as the point of intersection 

 of the 141st <legree of west longitude (of the same meridian) ; and finally, from the 

 said point of intersection, the said meridian line of the lllst degree, in its prolonga- 

 tion as far as the Frozen Ocean. 



"IV. With reference to the line of demarcation laid flown in tlie preceding Arti- 

 cle, it is understood — 



" 1st. That the island called Prince of Wales Island shall belong wholly to Russia " 

 (now, by this cession, to the United States). 



"2ud. That whenever the summit of the mountains which extend in a direction 

 parallel to the coast from the 56th degree of north latitude to the point of intersec- 

 tion of the 141st degree of west longitude shall prove to lie at the distance of more 

 than 10 marine leagues from the ocean, the limit between the British possessions and 

 the line of coast which is to belong to Russia as above mentioned (that is to say, the 

 limit to the })ossi'ssioiis ceded by this Convention) shall be formed by fi line parallel 

 to the winding of the coast, and which shall never exceed the distance of 10 marinf 

 leagues therefrom.'' 



The western limit within which the territories and dominion conveyed, are con 

 tained, i)asses through a point in Behring Straits on the ])arallel of 65^ 30' north 

 latitude, at its intersection by the meridian which passes nudway between the 

 Islands of Krusenstern, or Ignalook, and the Island of Ratmanoff, or Noouarbook, 

 and proceeds due north, without limitation, into the same Frozen Ocean. The same 

 western limit, beginning at the same initial jioint, proceeds thence in a course nearly 

 south-west through Behring Straits and Behring Sea, so as to pass midway between 

 the north-west point of the Island of St. LaAvreuce and the south-east point of Cape 

 Choukotski, to the meridian of 172 west longitude; thence, from the intersection of 

 that meridian, in a south-westerly direction, so as to pass midway between the 

 Island of Attou and the Copper Island of the Kormandorski couplet or group in 

 the North Pacific Ocean, to the meridian of 193° west longitude, so as to include in 

 the territory conveyed the whole of the Aleutian Islands east of that meridian. 



