80 RUSSIAN CORRESrONDENCE RELATING TO 



The oiii;iiial is .signed iu the journals by the presidents and members. 

 Certified by — 



Yermakoff, 



Vice-Director. 

 K. Eadetski, 



Chief of Division. 

 True eopy: 



A. TlxMKOVSKY. 



No. 20. 

 Proclamation. 



It is hereby proclaimed to all whom it may concern, that if any per- 

 son or persons, after reading these presents, does not immediately 

 abandon Russian territory or waters, or continue forbidden trade or 

 traffic, they shall be seized forthwith upon the arrival of the first 

 Russian vessel upon the scene of their illegal transactions and taken 

 for trial to New Archangel, and all goods, as well as the vessel found 

 in possession of such persons, shall be confiscated. 



Given at the port of New Arehangel, on the Northwest Coast of 

 America, this -'- day of Sex^tember, 1804. 



PART II.— ILLUSTRATING RUSSIAN MANAGEMENT OF THE SEAL 



ISLANDS. 



No. 21. 



Letter from the Board of Administration of the Russian American 

 Company to Alexander Andreicvitch Baranof Chief Manager of the 

 Enssian American Colonies. Written from St. Fctershurg, April 6', 1817. 



The board of administration of the Company incloses herewith for 

 your information a copy of a report from the Kiakhta office, relating to 

 the favorable reception by the Chinese at Kiakhta of fur-seal skins, 

 and desires yon to use your best endeavors to send to Okhotsk for the 

 Kiakhta market .such kinds of furs as are i)referred by the Chinese, 

 and not to send any young sea lion skins. 



[Inclosure.] 



Report of the Kialhta office to the Board of Administration of the Russian 



American Conqnmij. 



No. 137.] February 8th, 1817. 



This office had the lionorto receive on the first instant the order of 

 the board or adiiiini.stration, dated December 14, 181(), No. 715, in which 

 dire('ti(ms are given in disposing of the fur-seal skins received by the 

 ship >S»w>ro/" to observe what kinds of skins are preferred. In refer- 

 ence to this the office has the honor to rep<n't that the fur-seal skins 

 fVoiii both the slii)>s Konslantin and Suror<f wviv, sold together, but it 

 was noticed, from the manner in which the skins were received by the 



