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trade, it is agreed tliat tlie citizens of tlie United States sliall not resort 

 to any point wliere tliere is a Eussian establislinient, witliout tlie per- 

 mission of tlie Governor or Commander; andtliat, reciprocally, tbe sub- 

 jects of Kussia sliall not resort, without permission to any establish- 

 ment of the United States upon the Northwest Coast. 



"Art. 3. It is moreover agreed that, hereafter, there shall not be 

 formed by the citizens of the United States, or under the authority of 

 the said States, any establishment upon the Northwest Coast of Amer- 

 ica, nor in any of the islands adjacent, to the north of 54° 40' north 

 latitude; and that, in the same manner, there shall be none formed by 

 Eussian subjects, or under the authority of Eussia, south of the same 

 parallel. 



"Art. 4. It is, nevertheless, understood that during a term of ten 

 years, counting from the signature of the present convention, the ships 

 of both powers or Avliich may belong to their citizens or subjects 

 respectively, may reciprocally frequent, without any hindrance what- 

 ever, the interior seas, gulfs, harbors and creeks, upon the coast men- 

 tioned in the preceding Article, for the purpose of fishing and trading 

 with the natives of the country." V. S. IStat. vol. 8, p. 302. 



The negotiations between Eussia and Great Britain resulted in the 

 treaty of 1825, as follows: 



" I. It is agreed that the respective subjects of the high contracting 

 Parties shall not be troubled or molested, in any part of the Great Ocean, 

 commonly called the Pacific Ocean, either in navigating the same, in 

 fishing therein, or in landing at such parts of the coast as shall not 

 have been already occupied, in order to trade with the natives, under 

 the restrictions and conditions specified in the following articles. 



" II. In order to prevent the right of navigating and fishing, exercised 

 upon the ocean by the subjects of the high contracting Parties, from 

 becoming the pretext of an illicit commerce, it is agreed that the sub- 

 jects of His Britannic Majesty shall not land at any place where there 

 may be a Eussian establishment, without the permission of the Gov- 

 ernor or Commandant; and on that other hand, that Eussian subjects 

 shall not land, without permission, at any British establishment of the 

 Northwest coast. 



" III. The line of demarkation between the possessions of the high 

 contracting Parties, upon the coast of the continent and the Islands cf 

 America to the Northwest, shall be drawn in the manner following: 



