RUSSIAN DOCUMENTS. 



FAC-SIMILES OF DOCUMENTS ON FILE IN THE DEPARTMENT OF 



STATE.* 



UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 



Department of State. 



To all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting : 



T CERTIFY that the documents, of which hthographic reproductions are 

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

 ing 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 annexed re- 

 productions are, except as to size, fac-similes of the original documents, having 

 been obtained by photo-lithography. 



In TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I, John W Fostcr, 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 30th day of December, 

 A. D. 1892, and of the Independence of the United States 

 of America the one hundred and seventeenth. 



JOHN W. FOSTER 



*/n the first print of the Counter-case of the United States these facsimile copies 

 of documents iti the Alaskan Archives were included in the volume of Counter- 

 case and Appendix, following page 428. 



