Russian Correspondence relating to 

 the affairs of the russian a.merican 

 coivieany. 



FACSIMILES OF DOCUMENTS ON FILE IN THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE. 



No. 2oie. 



UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 

 Department of State. 



Jo all lo whom these presents shall come. Greeting : 



I certify that the documents, of which lithographic reproductions 

 are hereto annexed, are official papers of the Russian American Company 

 relating to Alaska, now on file in the archives of this Department. They 

 came into the possession of the United States by virtue of article second 

 of the treaty of 1867 between the United States and Russia; and the an- 

 nexed reproductions are, except as to size, fac-similes of the original 

 documents, having been obtained by photo-lithography. 



In testimony whereof, I, John W Foster, Secretary of State of 

 the United States, have hereunto subscribed my name and 

 caused the seal of the Department of State to be affixed. 

 ( seal.) Done at the City of Washington, this ist day of August, A. D. 

 1892, and of the Independence of the United States of 

 America the one hundred and seventeenth. 



JOHN W. P^OSTER 



* In the Jir^i print of the case of the United States these facsimile copies of docu- 

 ments in the Alaskan Archives were included in Volume I of the Appendix to the case, 

 following page 593. 



