44 THE UKASE OF 1821. 



Eequo.st of Min- pening^^].^ ^^p to 62° of north ern latitude, and the 



r?nisers^ ^be^ *d£ ^'^^^ ^'^^^* ^^ America froHi this latitude to the 



cmnVaii.y*s ^^ ill tcT- island of Uiialaska, and the intervening waters 



eimg ea. ^j^^j.^^^g Sea), sliould proceed to Kadiak and 



from there to Sitka for the winter. The object 



of the cruising of two of our armed vessels in the 



localities above mentioned is the protection of 



our Colonies and the exclusion of foreigli vessels 



engaged in traffic or industry injurious to the 



interests of the Russian Company as well as to 



those of the native inhabitants of those regions." 



In the following year, 1821, two similar ships 



were to be dispatched, and in " this manner two 



ships of war would always be present in the 



Colonies and the Company would be assured of 



their protection."^ 



Killing of fnr- rpj^g |^ ^^.^j ^f administration of the Russian 



seals at sea to bo 



preveuted. American Company, writing March 15, 1821, 



from St. Petersburg to the chief manag-er of the 

 Colonies at Sitka, with full knowledge of the 

 report of the committee of ministers and the 

 action of the Ministers of Finance and of Marine 

 of the year previous, clearly intimates the duty 

 these war ships were to perform. In giving in- 

 structions as to the management of the fur-seals 

 on the Pribilof Islands, it says: ''We must 



» Vol. I, p. 49. 



