U TRANSLATIONS OF RUSSIAN DOCUMENTS FURiNISHED IN 



UNITED STATES CASE. 



[The left-hand colnmn containH the tranBlatione orijiinally furnished by the United States Govern- 

 ment in Vol. I of the Appendix to their Case. In the rijjht-hand column revised translations are 

 given. Nos. 1 to 10, 12, and 15 having heen withdrawn by the United States, the revised transla- 

 tions of these documents have been made for Her Majesty's Government from the fac-gimiUs of 

 the original Kussian text annexed to the Case of the United States. Of the remainder, viz., Nos. 

 11, 13, 14, and 16 to 31, the amended versions, recently supplied by the United States, have been 

 adopted. Where any material differences between the original and revised translations occur 

 the passages have been underlined, with the addition of brackets in the case of interpolations.] 



Original Translation. 



No. 1. 



Abstract of Letter from the Minister 

 of Finance to the Minister of 

 Marine. Written from St. Peters- 

 burg, April 9, 1820. 



The Committee of Ministers ap- 

 pointed by His Majesty on the 8th 

 day of July, 1819, instructed the 

 Minister of Internal Affairs to col- 

 lect all information obtainable re- 

 lating to the determination of the 

 future rights and imvileges of the 

 Itussian-Americau Company. 



Subsequently, upon highest re- 

 quest, the Department of Manu- 

 factures and Internal Commerce, 

 together with the Eussian- Ameri- 

 can Company, submitted state- 

 ments on this subject supported 

 by the Annual Reports of theBoard 

 of Administration and by the tes- 

 timony of the commanders of ships 

 sailing in those regions, from which 

 I learn that the foreigners, espe- 

 cially the citizens of the North 

 American States, come to our Col- 

 onies in their ships and carry on 

 both openly and secretly a trade 

 with the native inhabitants, doing 

 thereby great injury and wrong to 

 our Settlements in their traffic, and 

 also endangering the general in- 

 terests by furnishing the islanders 



B s, PT vin 20 



Eevised Translation. 



No. 1. 



Copy of a Letter from the Minister 

 of Finance to the Minister of 

 Marine, dated April 9, 1820. 



(No. 8.) 



By a decision of the Council of 

 Ministers, which received His 

 Majesty's sanction on the 8th July, 

 181'J, the Minister of the Interior 

 was called ui)on to collect full in- 

 formation on the question of the 

 proposed changes in the arrange- 

 ments in connection with the Kus- 

 sian-Ainerican Company. 



Subsequently, when, by His Maj- 

 esty's order, the Department of 

 Manufactures and Internal Com- 

 merce, and with it the Russian - 

 American Company, were placed 

 under the direction of the Ministry 

 of Finance, the subject came before 

 me for my consideration. I have 

 gathered fron) the various Reports 

 of the Board of Administration, as 

 well as from the observations of the 

 Commanders of ships that have vis- 

 ited those parts, that foreigners, es- 

 pecially citizens of the North Amer- 

 ican States, come to our Colonies 

 in their ships, and carry on both 

 openly and secretly a trade with 

 the native inhabitants, and do in- 

 jury and wrong to our Settlements 

 by their proceedings, and, most of 



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