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of the native population of Kam- 

 chatka and Okhotsk. 



{d.) Whether the Company can 

 undertake to furnish the distri(;ts 

 of Kam(;hatka and Okhotsk with 

 all the necessary articles of trade 

 which the inhabitants now receive 

 from Irkutsk, and at what prices. 



3. In refusing permission to Mr. 

 Dobello to dispatch ships loaded 

 with tea and Chinese goods, the 

 Government had in view the avoid- 

 ance of any complications which 



might interfere with the full enjoy- „,_«___^ 



ment by the Kussian-American of our Kiakh ta trade. If, however, 



fishing industry by which the poor 

 inhabitants of Kamtchatka and 

 the people round Okhotsk are 

 chiefly supported; and, lastly — 



(d.) Whether the Company can 

 supply the inhabitants of Kam- 

 tchatka and Okhotsk with such 

 articles as are indispensable to 

 them. They are now brought from 

 Irkutsk, and extravagant prices 

 are charged for them, so that the 

 people, instead of having their 

 wants provided for, are being 

 ruined. 



3. In refusing to allow Dobello 

 to dispatch two ships with tea and 

 other Chinese goods, the sole ob- 

 ject of the Government has been 

 to prevent anything which might 

 interfere with the 



regular 



course 



Company of its privileges granted 

 by Imperial Ukase, not only in 

 counection with the trade in teas 

 across the Chinese border at 

 Kiakhta, [but also in connection 

 with the exclusive rights of trade 

 and navigation in all the waters 

 adjoining the Siberian as well as 

 tlie American possessions of liiis- 

 sia, and all interior waters con- 



nected therewithT] For this pur- 

 pose Mr. Dobello was requested to 

 furnish detailed information of the 

 trade and commerce at the Philip- 

 pine Islands, [in order to relieve 

 the Company of the necessity of 

 employing foreign ships and raas- 

 ters for this trade which involves 

 their admission to waters reserved 

 for the exclusive use of the Rus^ 

 sian-American Company under its 

 charter. 



In conclusion, it is stated as the 

 decision of His Majesty the Em- 

 peror, in view oT^ossible~fu tlire 

 comi)lications of this nature, that 

 no contracts involving the ad mls- 

 sion, free navigation, or trade of 

 foreign ships and foreign subjects 

 in the waters adjoining or bounded 



the Russian- American Company is 

 able to obtain Chinese goods in 

 the Philippine Islands in exchange 

 for wares which it cannot dispose 

 of profitably at Kiakhta, there is 

 no reason why it should not carry 

 on such a trade. As the Company 

 is itself engaged in the Kiakhta 

 trade, it will take care not to injure 

 its own interests, which are closely 

 connected with that trade, by the 

 sale of goods imported by sea. 

 Mr. Dobello has therefore been 

 requested to supply detailed infor- 

 mation on the subject of the trade 

 with the Philippine Islands, in 

 order that it may be ascertained 

 whether the Company can profit- 

 ably exchange at Manilla for Chi- 

 nese or other goods the furs which 

 it cannot dispose of at Kiakhta. 



In conclusion, I have to inform 

 your Board that the reason why 

 the Spanish Government have de- 

 clined to recognize "Court-Coun- 

 cillor" Dobello as Russian Consul 

 is that the Court of Madrid con- 

 sider it not in harmony with their 

 colonial system that foreign coun- 

 tries should have Consuls in their 



