PERIOD FROM 1825 TO 1867. 69 



found In tlie Appenclix/tliat "the exclusive right ^^^^^^"f'^^^'o"! 1^62 

 of the Company to engage in the fur trade through- 

 out the entire colonial territory shall be contin- 

 ued." No new charter, however, was granted, 

 for the year following witnessed the transfer of 

 the territory of Alaska to the United States. 



From the foregoing historical review it appears : Conclusions 



from lorcgoiug re- 



First. That prior and up to the date of thevicAv. 

 treaties of 1824 and 1825, Russia did assert and 

 exercise exclusive rights of commerce, hunting, 

 and fishing on the shores and in all the waters 

 of Bering Sea. 



Second. That the body of water known as 

 Bering Sea was not included in the phrase 

 "Pacific Ocean," as used in the treaty of 1825. 



Third. That after said treaty of 1825 the Rus- 

 sian Government continued to exercise exclusive 

 jurisdiction over the whole of Bering Sea up to 

 the time of the cession of Alaska to the United 

 States, in so far as was necessary to preserve to 

 the Russian American Company the monopoly 

 of the fur-seal industry, and to prohibit the taking 

 on the land or in the water by any other persons 

 or companies of the fur-seals resorting to the 

 Pribilof Islands. 



Fourth. That before and after the treaty of 

 1825, and up to the date of the cession of Alaska 



1 Vol. I, p. 79. 



