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Islands and the Unalaska district when it may seam necessary. The 

 supplies and papers for the above-named places may be delivered on 

 the way there, and the furs and the replies may be received on the re- 

 turn voyage. As at the time of the voyage to the northern part of 

 Bering Sea this vessel will also do duty as a cruiser to keep watch over 

 the foreign whalers and the Englishmen, with regard to the trade car- 

 ried on by them with our savages, it must in no event waste any time, 

 and must be under the command of a naval officer, and, if possible, have 

 a naval crew. 



VI. The third first-class vessel will maintain communication with 

 ■California and the Sandwich Islands, carrying there lumber and salted 

 fish and bringing to the colonies salt and other merchandise if the pur- 

 chase of such appears necessary and to the advantage of the company. 

 This vessel must in no case waste any time in foreign ports, but must, 

 immediately after delivering the cargo furnished, if there is no return 

 cargo in readiness for it, return to New Archangel in ballast. But the 

 colonial government must make every exertion always to have a cargo 

 ready for immediate dispatch to California or the Sandwich Islands, 

 guiding itself by information received from the company's agent at 

 San Francisco. Short reports (on the most important subjects) must 

 be sent by this vessel on every trip, to be forwarded to the board of 

 administration. 



VII. The fourth first-class vessel will remain in reserve and can be 

 employed for carrying salt to Kamchatka in sufficient quantities to 

 last several years; for transporting cargoes of lumber to California; 

 for the inspection of the colonies by the chief manager, etc. In those 

 years when it becomes necessary to send to the islands of the Atka 

 district more lumber than can be carried by a small vessel, the voyage 

 ordered in section 3 of this dispatch may be assigned to the large ves- 

 sel, and the small vessel designated in that section may remain in re- 

 serve or receive special instructions. 



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In communicating to your excellency the above regular schedule of 

 the voyages of the colonial fleet, the board of administration respect- 

 fully requests you, if the interests of the company require any devia- 

 tion from this schedule, to take special care that the large vessels, so 

 far as possible, may never remain idle in port, but may be perpetually 

 engaged in voyages of advantage to the company; that the colonial 

 seas, so far as possible, be visited in every part by the company's 

 cruisers, for the purpose of keeping watch over the foreigners, and for 

 this purpose, in giving instructions to our cruisers, to conform yourself 

 to the intended movements of the company's whaling vessels, which 

 can also do duty as cruisers if they are carrying on their fishery in 

 Bering Sea, and to provide that the company's vessels designated for 

 visiting the many islands of the colonies be, so far as possible, under 

 the command of naval officers, in order that they may become acquainted 

 with the condition of colonial affairs and may gradually fit themselves 

 for jjerforining the most important duties in the administration of the 

 colonies. 



V, POJUTKOVSKY, 



Presiding Officer., 

 V. Klupfel, 

 A. Etholin,, 

 K. Kusgf, 

 Baron Wrangel, 

 Members of the Board. 

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