24 IMPERIAL RUSSIAN EDICTS. 



after deducting oiie-fiftli for Government, the remainder is left to the 

 ofti(;er,s of the men-of-war. 



But if the vessel be taken by the conjoint forces of a man-of-war and 

 a Company's vessel, then the prize shall be divided between them in 

 jiroportion to their strength, regulating the same according to the num- 

 ber of guns. 



Sec. 01. The sum coming to the officers of the man-of-war shall be 

 divided according to the rules for dividing i:)rizes in time of war. In 

 all cases officers who had a share in seizing foreign vessels, convicted 

 of the intention of infringing the privileges most graciously granted to 

 the Eussian American Company, may exi^ect to receive tokens of His 

 Imi)erial Majesty's approbation, especially when after deducting the 

 expences for conveying the crew their part in the prize money should 

 prove but trifling. 



Sec, 62. If a foreign vessel detained by a Russian, being under the 

 command of a Eussian officer, should be cast away before reaching the 

 port of St. Peter and Paul, the following principle shall be observed: 



If the foreign vessel alone be lost and the Eussian accompanying her 

 arrive at the port of St. Peter and Paul, then the court acts according 

 to the foregoing rules to determine whether the vessel was lawfully 

 seized. In this case Government takes upon itself the expences of con- 

 veying to a port of the Baltic such of the ship's crew as were saved. 

 But if such vessel should not be proved to have been detained lawfully, 

 then independent of those expences the ship shall be valued and such 

 valuation forwarded to Government for the payment of what may be 

 deemed just; at the same time investigations shall be made ou the loss 

 of the vessel; and the officer that had the command (if saved) is to be 

 tried according to the maritime rules and regulations. 



Sec. 03. The Commander of Kamtchatka is bound to make a special 

 report to the Governor-General of Siberia respecting every circum- 

 stance happening to foreign vessels, annexing copies of all documents, 

 journals, and sentences of the court and of all papers relating there- 

 unto. 



The original is signed: 



Count D. Gxtrief, 

 j} fillister of Finances. 



CHARTER OF 1821.i 



Second charter of the Russian American Company. 



Signed in the original by His Imperial Majesty's own hand thus: 

 Be it accordingly — 



Alexander. 

 PoRKHOF, Septemher 13, 1821. 



TRIVILEGES granted to the RUSSIAN AMERICAN COMPANY FOR A 

 PERIOD OF TWENTY YEARS FROM THIS DATE. 



The following rights are most graciously conferred upon the Company : 



I. 



The Company established for carrying on industries and trade on the 

 maijiland of Northwest America, on the Aleutian, and ou tlieKurile Is- 



'For Russian text see Tiklinnmiof, vol. i, app., p. 41. 



