3. FISHERIES 



a. Convention Regarding Navigation, Fishing and Trading on the 

 Pacific Ocean and Along the Northwest Coast of America, 

 April 17, 1824* 



Concluded April 17^ IS'Blt-; Ratification advised hy the Senate Janu- 

 ary 6, 1825; Ratified hy the President January 7, 18'25; Ratifications 

 exchanged January 11^ 1825; Proclaimed January 12, 1825. [Article 

 3 obsolete hy virtue of Alaska cession treaty; article 4- expired 

 April 17,1834-'] 



By THte President of the United States of America 



A PKOCLAMATION 



Whereas a Convention between the United States of America, and 

 His Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, was concluded and 

 signed at St. Petersburg on the fifth-seventeenth day of April in the 

 year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four ; which 

 Convention being in the French Language, is word for word as fol- 

 lows, a Translation of the same being hereto annexed. 



[Translation from the original, which Is in the French language.] 



In the Name of the Most Holy and Indivisible Trinity. 



The President of the United States of America and His Majesty the 

 Emperor of all the Russias, wishing to cement the bonds of amity 

 which unite them and to secure between them the invariable mainte- 

 nance of a perfect concord, by means of the present Convention, have 

 named as their Plenipotentiaries to this effect, to wit : The President 

 of the United States of America, Henry Middleton a Citizen of said 

 States, and their Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary 

 near His Imperial Majesty : and His Majesty the Emperor of all the 

 Russias, his beloved and faithful Charles Robert Count of Nesselrode, 

 actual Privy Counsellor, Member of the Comicil of State, Secretary 

 of State directing the administration of foreign Affairs, actual Cham- 

 berlain, Knight of the order of St. Alexander Nevsky, Grand Cross of 

 the order of St. Wladimir of the first Class, Knight of that of the 

 white Eagle of Poland, Grand Cross of the order of St. Stephen of 

 Hungary, Knight of the orders of the Holy Ghost and of St. Michael, 

 and Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour of France, Knight Grand 

 Cross of the orders of the Black and of the Red Eagle of Prussia, of 

 the Annunciation of Sardinia, of Charles III of Spain, of St. Ferdi- 

 nand and of Merit of Naples, of the Elephant of Denmark, of the 

 Polar Star of Sweden, of the Crown of Wirtemberg, of the Guelphs of 



*Citation: 8 Stat. 302 ; TS 298 ; II Malloy 1512 ; 11 Bevans 1205. 



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