68 PERIOD FROM 1825 TO 1867. 



Whaling corn- j^^ i^r^Q 1]^^^.^ \y^^[ -[^qq^^ p;ranted to the Russo- 

 terrfreqiwal^d by Finnish Whaling Company a charter which con- 

 fur-seais. taiiiecl the following pro\dsion: "The ships of the 



Whaling Company enteiing the ports of the Rus- 

 sian American Company are subject to harbor 

 regulations established for the guidance of all 

 shipping, but they must not anchor or cruise in 

 waters where the presence of ships or the pursuit 

 of whales may alarm any marine animals or inter- 

 fere with the regulations of the Company for their 

 protection and increase."^ 



While the foregoing only purports to be a 

 municipal regulation, yet it is useful as furnish- 

 ing another illustration of the constant protection 

 which the Russian Government extended to its 

 seal herds. 

 Pori_n,ifrom]8G2 rpj^^ ^]^|j.j charter of the Russian American 



to Iboi. 



Comi)any expiredin 1862, but the Company nev- 

 ertheless continued to operate under it j)ending 

 the decision of the question of its renewal for 

 another term. With regard to the latter it was 

 at first, in 1865, decided to extend the Company's 

 privileges only to the region about Bering Sea;^ 

 but the following year it was determined by the 

 Council of State, in an opinion which will be 



' Sec. II, § 9. The full text of the charter ^Yill he found in 

 Tilihnieuief, vol. II, app. p. 1 ct seq. 



* Letter from the Department of Commerce and Manufactures 

 to the board, June 19, 1865, containing report of the Minister of 

 Fiuauce, Vol. 1, p. 75. 



