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APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CASE OF GRKAT BRITAIN. 



French languages, and as soon as 

 these translations have been re- 

 ceived we shall endeavour to for- 

 ward them to you by one of the 

 naval vessels.* 

 (Signed) Venedict Kramer, 



Director, 

 Andrei Severin, 



Director, 



French versions, they shall be sent 

 to you by one of the Imperial ships. 



(Signed) Venedict Kramer, 



Director. 

 Andrei Severin, 



Director. 



(Signed) Zelensky, 



Chief Clerk. 



September 7, 1821. 



23 



No. 8. 



Letter from tlie Board of Adminis- 

 tration of the Russian- American 

 Company to Captain- Lieutenant 

 of the Lmperial Navy and Knight 

 M. I, Muravief Chief Manager of 

 the Russian- American Colonies. 

 Written from St. Petersburg, Sep- 

 tember 20, 1821. 



The Minister of Finance, his 

 Excellency Count Dmitry Alexan- 

 drovitch Guryef, under date of the 

 18th instant, has informed the 

 Board of Administration of the 

 Company that His Imperial Maj- 

 esty, on the 13th day of the present 

 month, has most graciously deigned 

 to consider in private council the 

 propositions submitted by his Ex- 

 cellency of granting anew to the 

 Company its rights and privileges 

 for a period of twenty years. A 

 new set of Eules and Eegulations 

 were also taken under advisement, 

 and the subsequent action, as 

 evinced by the Imperial Edict, fur- 

 nishes ijroof of the sincere anxiety 

 on the part of the Imperial Gov- 

 ernment to assist all praiseworthy 

 and patriotic enterprises, such as 

 that represented by our Company, 

 and to extend over them its highest 

 protection. Our august Monarch 

 is ready to do all in his power to 

 further the efforts of the Eussian- 

 American Company in spreading 



No. 8. 



From the Board of Administration 

 of the Russian- American Com- 

 pany under His Imperial Majesty^ s 

 Protection to Captain Matvei 

 Ivanovitch Muravief Chief Man- 

 ager of the Russian- Aynerican 

 Colonies, 



(No. 532.) 



His Excellency Count Dmitri 

 Alexandrovitch Gurief, Minister 

 of Finance, informed this Board on 

 the 18th instant that His Imperial 

 Majesty had been x3leased to ap- 

 prove, at Porkhov, on the 13th 

 instant, drafts of a Charter grant- 

 ing privileges to this Company for 

 a further period of twenty years, 

 and of Eegulations for its guidance. 

 In inclosing copies of these papers, 

 Count Gurief expressed the hope 

 that, as they furnished to the Com- 

 pany proof of the anxiety of the 

 Government to make it a still more 

 useful institution, this Board would, 

 on its part, use its best endeavours 

 to meet the wishes of the Govern- 

 ment in every respect, and espe- 

 cially that it would lose no time in 

 sending the necessary instruQtions 

 to you as the Chief Manager of 

 the Company's Colonies. 



•The Eules referred to are the Ukase of 1821. (See vol. i, p. 16.) 



