38 THE UKASE OF 1821. 



THE UKASE OF 1821. 



Ukase of 1821 On tlie 4th of S(3r)tember, 1821, tliis famous 

 of tiie Company. ^^]^J^J.g ^y^^g made public, and nine days later, 

 on tlie 13th of September, 1821, the Emperor 

 renewed with certain additions for another 

 term of twenty years the charter and privi- 

 leges granted in 1799 to the Russian Amer- 

 ican Company. Both the ukase and the new 

 charter appear in full in the Appendix.^ 



Purpose of the ^\^q obiccts wliicli w^crc sou^lit to be obtained 



])y the promulgation of the ukase appear from 

 the recital prefixed to it, which is as follows : 

 " Observing from Reports submitted to us that 

 the trade of ouk subjects on the Aleutian Islands 

 and on the North West Coast of America apper- 

 taining unto Russia is subjected, because of 

 secret and illicit Traffic, to oppression and imped- 

 iments ; and finding that the principal cause of 

 these difiiculties is the want of Rules establish- 

 ino- the Boundaries for Navio-ation alonof- these 

 Coasts, and the order of Naval Communication 

 as well in these places as on the whole of the 

 Eastern Coast of Siberia and the Kurile Islands, 

 we Iiave deemed it necessary to determine these 

 Communications by specific Regulations which 

 are hereto attached," 



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