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En foi de qiioi les Plenipotentiaires respectifs I'ont sign6e, et y ont 

 fait appose!' Ics cachets de lenrs armes. 



Fait a St. Petersbourg le -^f Avril de I'an de grace milliuit cent vingt 

 qnatre. 



[seal.] Henry Middleton. 



SEAL.] Le Comte Charles de Nesselrode. 



SEAL.l Pierre de Poletica. 



TREATY BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND RUSSIA. SIGNED AT 



ST. PETERSBURG FEBRUARY — , 1825. 



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In the name of the Most Holy and Undivided Trinity. 



His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and 

 Ireland, and His "Majesty the Emperor of all the Rnssias, being desirous 

 of drawing still closer the ties of good understanding and friendship 

 which unite them, by means of an agreement which may settle, upon 

 the basis of reciprocal convenience, different jooints connected with the 

 commerce, navigation, and fisheries of their subjects on the Pacific 

 Ocean, as well as the limits of their respective possessions on the North- 

 west coast of America, have named Plenipotentiaries to conclude a 

 convention for this purpose, that is to say: His Majesty the King of 

 the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Right Honora- 

 ble Stratford Canning, a member of his said Majesty's Most Honorable 

 Privy Council, etc., and His Majesty the Emperor of all the Eussias, 

 the Sieur Charles Robert Count de Nesselrode, His Imperial Majesty's 

 Privy Councillor, a member of the Council ol the Empire, Secretary of 

 State for the department of Foreign Affairs, etc., and the Sieur Pierre 

 de Poletica, His Imperial Majesty's Councillor of State, etc. Who, 

 after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, 

 found in good and due form, have agreed upon and signed the following 

 articles : 



I. It is agreed that the res))ective subjects of the high contracting 

 Parties shall not be troubled or molested, in any part of the o-cean, 

 commonly called the Pacific Ocean, either in navigating the same, in 

 fishing therein, or in landing at such x)iirts of the coast as shall not 

 have been already occupied, in order to trade with the natives, under 

 the restrictions and conditions specified in the following articles. 



II. In order to prevent the right of navigating and fishing, exercised 

 ui^on the ocean by the subjects of the high contracting Parties, from 

 becoming the jiretext for an illicit commerce, it is agreed that the sub- 

 jects of His Britannic Majesty shall not land at any place where there 

 may be a Russian establishment, without the permission of the Gov- 

 ernor or Commandant; and, on the other hand, that Russian subjects 

 shall not land, without i^ermission, at any British establishment of the 

 Northwest coast. 



III. The line of demarkation between the possessions of the high con- 

 tracting Parties, upon the coast of the continent, and the islands of 

 America to the Northwest, shall be drawn in the manner following: 



Commencing from the southernmost point of the island called Prince 

 of Wales Island, which point lies in the parallel of fifty-four degrees 

 forty minutes, north latitude, and between the one hundred and thirty- 

 first and the one hundred and thirty-third degree of west longitude 

 (Meridian of Greenwich), the said line shall ascend to the north along 



