28 IMPERTAT. RUSSIAN EDICTS. 



Jand of North America, on tlie Aleutian Islands, and on the Kuiile Is- 

 lands and in all parts of the Northeastern *Sea shall, nnder onr supreme 

 patronage, be called, as before the Enssian American Company., 



(2) The limits of navigation and industry of the Company are deter- 

 mined bv the treaties concluded with the United States of America 

 April 5,'(17) 1824, and with England February IG, (28) 1825. 



(3) In all the places allotted to Eussia by these treaties there shall 

 be reserved to the Company the right to profit by all the fur and fish 

 industries, to the exclusion of all other Eussia n subjects. 



(4) The part that neighboring nations may take in these industries, 

 as well as the nature of the coast relations with the Enssian American 

 Company, shall remain on the basis of these sanu^ treaties until new 

 rules shall be published on this subje(;t. 



(5) All tiie advantages and rights conceded to Eussia by these treaties 

 are granted to the Comjiany, on which is also imposed the strict fulfill- 

 ment of all the nnitual obligations of Eussia stipulated in these treaties. 



(0) The internal administration of the affairs of the Company, its 

 relations to the Government, the personnel and the duties of the supreme 

 council of the chief administration of the directors of the Colonies, of 

 the local agencies, and of the shareholders shall remain on the basis 

 of the rules of September 13, 1821. 



(7) All the articles of these rules and of th<^ jn-ivileges published to- 

 gether with them, which are not limited by the aforesaid treaties, and 

 which are not contrary to the ukase of October 11, 1827, concerning en- 

 trance into service, shall remain in full force aiid vigor in their full 

 extent and for the whole time for which they were granted to the Ens- 

 sian American Com])any by our most august brotiier, the late Empreror 

 Alexander the First. 



In conclusion of this our Imperial charter, we order all our military 

 and civil authorities and all our GovernnuMitofticers not only not to pre- 

 vent the Enssian American Company from availing itself of these rules 

 and ])rivileges granted to it by us, but in case of need to forewaru it of 

 any damage or harm which may come to it, and to render all legal as- 

 sistance and protection to its board of admiuistration. 



For the greater force of this charter which we have granted, we have 

 signed it with our own hand and have ordered it to be strengthened by 

 the ahlxing of our seal of the EniYure. 



Published by the Senate, March 20 (April 10), 1829. 



CHARTER OF 1844.' 



Third Charfrr of the RufHiifoi American Company/. 



On the original is written in His Imperial Majesty's own hand: 



'' Be it thus," 



Gatchina, October 10, 1844. 



IIIGMIT« AND TRTVILEGES OF THE rOMPANY. 



Sec. 1. The Enssian American Company, established for trading on 

 the continent of Northwestern America and on the Aleutian and Ku- 

 riles Islands as in every part of the Northeastern Sea, standsunder the 

 Highest protection of His Imperial Majesty. 



' Related back to the year 1842. For Russiau text see Tiklimenief, vol. ii, fh-st ap- 

 pendix, i>. 11, 



