48 COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



A NOTICE BY THE UNITED STATES IN 1845 ASSUMES THAT 

 THE TREATY OF 1824 INCLUDES THE WHOLE RUSSIAN- 

 AMERICAN COAST NORTH OF LATITUDE 54° 40'. 



Further evidence that do distiuctioii was drawn by the 



United States Government between the coasts of Behring 



Sea and those of the rest of the Pacific is afforded by the 



C.W, p^V^'''*"' Notice which is referred to at p. 59 of the United States 



Apijc'udix.vui. Case, and is printed in full in United States Appendix, 



''^■'^^' vol. 1, p. 91. The Notice which was published on 



53 the 2()tli September, 1845, at the request of Russia 



by the United States Government, is as follows: 



The Rnssiau Minister at WasUingtou has informed the Secretary of 

 State that the Imperial Government, desirous of attbrdiufjr oiScial pro- 

 tection to the Russian territories in North America against the infrac- 

 tions of foreign vessels, has authorized cruizers to be established for 

 this purpose along- the coast by the Russian-American Company. 



It is, therefore, recommended to American vessels to be careful not 

 to violate the existing Treaty between the two countries, by resorting 

 to any point upon tlie Russian-American coast -where there is a Russian 

 establishment, Avithont the permission of the Governor or Commander, 

 nor to frequent the interior seas, gulfs, harbours, and creeks upon that 

 coast at any point north of the latitude of 54"^ 40'. 



It is clear that this Notice was not intended to apply only 

 to so much of the Ilussian-American coast as lies between 

 latitude 00° or latitude 59° 30', or any other particular 

 point, and latitude 50° 40'. 



Its real object was to remind the subjects of the United 

 States of the ijrovisions of the Treaty of 1824 which re- 

 strained their right to visit places on the Eussiau-Ameri- 

 can coast where there were Russian establishments, without 

 the permission of the Governor. 



DOCUMENTS CITED TO SHOW RUSSIAN ASSERTIONS 

 OF CONTROL OVER BEHRING SEA, PROVE NONE, IN- 

 TERPOLATIONS EXPUNGED. 



United Stales The Oase of the United States further invites attention 

 ase, p. . ^^^^^ this point to — 



the express declarations of the Russian Government on the subject 

 during the negotiations, and after the Treaties had been celebrated. 



Two quotations are given in this connection from the cor- 

 respondence of the Russian- American Company''. 

 ■United states The scusc of the first quotation from a letter from the 

 ^"(Forrevfsed Russian Minister of Finance to the Board of the Russian- 

 translation, see American Company of the 18th July, 1822, is seriously 



Appendix vol. i, t, -, ■, • j. i j.- 



p. 26.) altered by an interpolation : 



The Rules to be proposed will probably imply that it is no longer 

 necessary to prohibit the navigation of foreign vessels for the distance 

 mentioned iu the fidict of 4th September, 1821, and that we will not 

 claim jurisdiction over coastwise waters beyond the limits accepted 

 by any other Maritime Power [for the whole of ovii coast facing 



THE OPEN OCEAN. OVEU ALL INTERIOR AVATERS, HOWEVKK, AND 



OVERALL AVATEKS INCLOSKI) BY RUSSIAN TEIUUTORV .SUCH AS 



54 THE Sea of Okhtsk. Bering Sea, or the Sea of Kamchatka, 



AS AVELL AS IN ALL GULFS, BA YS , AND ESTUARIES WITHIN OUR 

 possessions, the right to the STRICTE ST CONTROL WILL ALAVAYS 

 RE maintained] 



