18 IMPERIAL RUSSIAN EDICTS. 



Sec. 11. It is prohibited to all commanders of the said forei^ ves- 

 sels, commissioners, and others, whosoever they may be, to receive any 

 articles, stores, or goods in those places where they will have landed, 

 except in the case aspr. sec. 7, under penalty of seizure of their ship and 

 cargo. 



Sec. 12. It is prohibited to these foreign ships to receive on board, 

 without especial permission of the commanders, any of the people in 

 the service of the company, or of the foreigners living in the company's 

 settlements. 



Ships proved to have the intention of carrying off any person belong- 

 ing to the colony shall be seized. 



Sec. 13. Every purchase, sale, or barter is prohibited betwixt a foreign 

 merchant ship and people in the service of the company. This prohi- 

 bition extends equally to those who are on shore and to those emi)loyed 

 in the company's ships. 



Any ship acting against this rule shall pay five times the value of 

 the articles, stores, or goods constituting this prohibited traffic. 



Sec. 14. It is likewise interdicted to foreign ships to carry on any 

 traffic or barter with the natives of the islands, and of the northwest 

 coast of America, in the whole extent hereabove mentioned. A ship 

 convicted of this trade shall be confiscated. 



Sec. 15. All articles, stores, and goods found on shore in ports or 

 harbours, belonging to Eussian subjects (carrying on prohibited traffic) 

 or to foreign vessels are to be seized. 



Sec. 16. The foreign merchant ships lying in harbor or in the roads 

 dare under no pretence send out their boats to vessels at sea, or to 

 those already come in, until they have been spoken to and visited ac- 

 cording to the existing customs. Whenever a foreign vessel hoists a 

 yellow flag, to announce an infectious disease being on board, or the 

 symptoms of the same, or any other danger of which she wishes to be 

 freed; every communication is interdicted until said flag is taken down. 

 From this rule, however, are excepted persons api)ointed for the i)ur- 

 pose and whose boats be under the colours of the Eussian American 

 Comi^any. 



Any vessel acting contrary to this regulation shall pay a fine of five 

 hundred dollars. 



Sec. 17. No ballast may be thrown overboard, but in such places as 

 are appointed by the commanders. The transgressor is liable to a fine 

 of five hundred dollars. 



Sec. 18. To all foreign merchant ships during their stay in anchoring 

 places, harbors, or roads, it is prohibited to have their guns loaded 

 either with balls or cartridges, under the risk of paying a fine of fifty 

 dollars for each gun. 



Sec. 19. No foreign merchant ship in port or in the roads, or riding 

 at anchor, may fire guns or muskets Avithout previously informing the 

 commander of the ])lace or settlement, unless it be for ])ilots, signaliz- 

 ing the same by the firing of one, two, or three guns, and hoisting her 

 colours as is cnstonniry in similar wants. In acting contrary thereto, 

 she is subjected to a fine of one hundred dollars for each shot. 



Sec. 20. On the arrival of a foreign ship in the harbour or in the roads, 

 a boat will immediately be sent to meet her, and to deliver to the cap- 

 tain a printed copy of these regulations, for which he nnist give receipt 

 in a book destined for the ])urpose. He is further obliged to state in 

 the book as pr. annexed form, all information required ol" foreign ves- 

 sels. All ships refusing to coin])ly with these legulations dare not ap- 

 proach the harbour, roads, or any anchoring j)lace. 



