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like your predecessor, "have taken all necessary measures for guarding 

 thePribilof Islands, which are of such importance to the company, from 

 a repetition of similar attempts on the part of foreigners ; and until 

 the clearing of those waters from whalers by means of a war cruiser, of 

 whose sending the board has already received information, you are 

 directed to order the company's cruisers to pay particular attention to 

 the Pribilof Islands. 



Signed in the original: 



V. Politkovsky, Presiding Officer. 

 V. Kishirin. 



N. Kusop. 



No. 17. 



Letter from the hoard of administration of the Russian American Company 

 to Captain of the Second Bank Nicholas Yahovlovitch Rosenberg, chief 

 manager of the Russian American Colonies. 



No. 561.] April 18, 1852. 



In transmitting to the governor-general of eastern Siberia the con- 

 tents of your dispatch No. 501 (May 24, 1851) concerning the visits of 

 foreign whaleships to the colonial seas, the board of administration 

 requested his excellency, in order to save the company from injury caused 

 by such occurrences, to issue instructions making it the duty of such 

 armed cruisers as his excellency, may have at his disposition to patrol 

 the colonial seas, especially around the Commander Islands, where, as 

 you report, the foreign whalers assemble in great numbers in the sum- 

 mer season. 



Informing you of this, the board of administration would instruct you 

 at the same time to fit out a company's cruiser independently of the 

 naval cruiser and to instruct it to cruise in those places where, on closer 

 investigation, it may appear to you necessary. 

 Signed in the original : 



V. Politkovsky, Presiding Officer. 



V. Kluppel, Member. 



A. Etholin, Member. 



N. Kusop, Member. 



Wrangell, Member, 



