22 IMPERIAL RUSSIAN EDICTS. 



passing the sentence is to determine the damages suffered by such de- 

 tention, and to furnisli both parties with a certified co]^y of this resolu- 

 tion. 



Sec. 45. In tlie course of 2 days both parties shall declare whether 

 they are satisfied with the decision of the court or not, and in the lat- 

 ter case (should it happen) assign it in writing. 



Sec. 40. Should both parties be satisfii-d with the decision of the 

 court, then the commander of Kamtcliatlva is to release immediately 

 the detained vessel, returning everything to the master according to 

 the inventory, along with the adjudged damages, exacting them from 

 whomsoever is to pay t!ie same. 



Sec. 47. If on the contrary the court receives on the third day a 

 repeal to its decision, it is bound to take that repeal into immediate 

 consideration, and finding it just, to change its decision; if not, to con- 

 firm the same and maive it known to the parties a second time. After 

 this no representation siudl be admitted, and both parties shall be sum- 

 moned before the court, which will allow them to make their protest in 

 writing, and will then state all the reasons why the sentence should be 

 carried into execution. 



Sec. 48. If the court find by tlie indictment that the vessel has been 

 lawfully detained, then the master of the foreign vessel, or the two eldest 

 in command under liim, shall be summoned, and the reasons of their de- 

 tention made known to tliem, giving them a certified copy of the con- 

 demnation. 



Sec. 49. The court is to receive within three days, and no later, the 

 representation of the master, and if he do not present the same within 

 the time limited, the court summoning him with two of his crew, noti- 

 fies that his silence is received as a mark of compliance, and that the 

 condemnation is just. 



Sec. 50. In this case the court comes to its final decision, which on 

 the following day is conunuiucated to the whole crew of the foreign 

 vessel, who shall sign all and every one that such sentence has been 

 made known to them, after which tlie commander of Kamtchatka is to 

 carry the sentence ot the court into execution, as will be explained 

 hereafter. 



Sec. 51. Should, however, the master deliver within the time limited 

 his protest, then the court, examining it witli all possible impartiality, 

 shall call for all further explanations, and having inserted the whole 

 into thejourual of tlie court, shall pass a final sentence and pronounce 

 it as stated in section 47. 



Sec. 52. If by sentence of the court the arrested vessel be released 

 and adjudged to receive damages for her detention, and if the vessel has 

 been arrested by anjM^f the Company's ofiicers, and the damages are not 

 above five thousand rubles, the commander of Kamtcliatka shall demand 

 immediate payment of said sum from the ofiice of the Ru^ssian Ameri- 

 can Company, but if the damages exceed the sum, he is to notify it to 

 the Company's ofilce, and give to the foreign master a certificate; but 

 the money can not be paid by the Company otherwise than after the 

 iuspection and resolution of its court of directors. If, on the other hand, 

 the foreign vessel has been detained uidawiully by a Russian man-of- 

 war, the commander of Kamtchatka is to pay the adjudged damages, (not 

 exceeding the sum of five thousand rubles) out of any (jrovernment sum, 

 and to report, in order to incasli it from tlie guilty; but if the danuiges 

 should exceed the sum of five thousand rubles, the commander of 

 Kamtchatka is to furnisli aceitiiicite for tlie receipt of that money, after 

 the regulation and confirmation of the Russian Government, 



