46 THE UKASE OF 1821. 



The Pigott affair, gf Fiiiauce wrote to the board of admimAtratiou 



coutiuued. 



of the Russian American Company for its 

 guidance in part as follows: "The commander 

 of the government of Irkutsk is hereby 

 instructed to forbid any foreigners, except such, 

 as have become Russian subjects, to enter the 

 mercantile guilds, or to settle in business in 

 Kamchatka or Okhotsk; also to entirely pro- 

 hibit foreign merchant vessels from trading in 

 these localities and from anchoring in any 

 port of Eastern Siberia, except in the case of 

 disaster. ... It is hereby ordered that 

 the local authorities shall inform the Eng- 

 lishman Davis at Okhotsk and Dobello's agent 

 in Kamchatka that the Government does not 

 permit them to reside in those places, mucli less 

 to erect buildings or other immovable prop- 

 erty." 



In the same dispatch the minister said: ''Hav- 

 ing for the benefit of the American Company 

 excluded all foreigners from Kamchatka and 

 Okhotsk and prohibited them from engaging in 

 trade and from hunting and fishing in all the 

 waters of Eastern Siberia, the Government fully 

 expects that the Company, on its part, will hold 

 itself responsible for supplying those regions 

 with all necessari(?s." And aofaiii: "In conclu- 

 sion, it is stated as the decision of His Majesty, 



