30 IMPERIAL RUSSIAN EDICTS. 



Finance, who in the case of medical employes of the civil branch mnst 

 confer with the Minister of Interior Affairs. 



2. As the Company enjoys the right to invite and receive into its serv- 

 ice from other branches of the Government ofiicers, noncommissioned 

 officers, sailors, cannoneers, medical employes, and assistant snrgeons 

 for employment on board the vessels sailing from Enssia to the Colo- 

 nies, as well as m the Colonies themselves, and at Okhotsk, therefore 

 these persons while in the t(miporary service of the Company are con- 

 sidered to be in active service with regard to all recompenses, except 

 ranks to which promotion is made according to seniority npon recom- 

 mendations from their actnal snperiors. Tiie oliicers preserve one-half 

 of their salary and the right to the services of an orderly. The medi- 

 cal employes of the civil branch are conlirmedin the Company's service 

 by the Ministry of Interior Affairs. 



3. Retired emph)yes of the Government, when entering into the employ 

 of the Company, jn^eserve their rank, as a general rule, and are consid- 

 ered to be in actnal service, enjoying all the privileges above ennmer- 

 ated in i)aragraph 1. 



4. The employes of the Company from classes not having the right 

 to enter into Government service enjoy the privileges of the classes 

 pertaining to their offices; but in retiring from the service of the Com- 

 I)any before ten years return to their original status. 



5. Those of the employes who shall have served ten years with spe- 

 cial benefit to the Company are granted, npon recommendation of the 

 board on being relieved from the service of the Company, personal hon- 

 orable citizenship, upon transfer from the original class, and in case of 

 particular deserts the board of administration of the Company is au- 

 thorized to solicit the granting of hereditary honorable citizenship. 



Sec. 9. Government employes while in the service of the Company 

 preserve the right, if they afterwards continue in the service of the 

 Government, to have their service in the Comi)any counted with regard 

 to pensions and orders of distinction for unimpeachable service.^ 

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Sec. 16. The vessels sent by the Company from Cronstadt aronnd 

 the world, from Okhotsk and other Russian ]>orts to tlie Russian col- 

 onies may be loaded with Russian products as well as with foreign 

 goods, having once paid custoins duty, and the vessels returning from 

 such colonies with cargoes of furs and other merchandise and i)roducts 

 may be discharged without detention upon declarations made by the 

 board of administration at the custom-houses, and at the port of 

 Okhotsk npon declarations from the Company's local oflflce to the cus- 

 toms authorities of that ])]ace. Inasmuch as all said merchandise is 

 being carried from one Russian port to another, it is not subject to cus- 

 toms duties or any other duties unless the furs are subjected by special 

 law to an internal-revenue tax. 



Sec. 17. In consideration of the remoteness of the province of Oc- 

 hotsk, where the necessity arises for the repair and sometimes for the 

 building of vessels, the Company is permitted to take in said province 

 the necessary timber from convenient places, provided, however, that 

 the Company's office at Okhotsk shall immediately inform the local for- 

 estry authorities of the place selected for the cutting of timber and of 

 the quantity and (juality of the timber cut. 



Sec. 18. For tlio shooting of animals, for maritime signals, for the 



1 Sections 10-15 contain regulations relating only to internal manageuwut, and 

 have therefore been omitted in this translation. 



