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points mail and the most necessary 

 supplies may be landed on the out- 

 ward voyagfe, and furs picked up 

 on the return trip. During the 

 whole time of the presence of this 

 ship in the northern part of Bering 

 Sea and the vicinity of the Pribilof 

 Islands, the commander must be 

 charged with the duty of cruising 

 in search of foreign whale-ships 

 and of English vessels carrying on 

 trade with our savages. This ship, 

 also, must make no prolonged stay 

 at any anchorage, and must be 

 placed under the command of a na- 

 val officer, with a crew consisting 



principally of sailors of the navy.* 



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7. The fourth large vessel of the 

 fleet, [wh ich may be used for voy- 

 ages to Kamchatka, must also be 

 litted out as an armed cruiser and 

 kept in readiness to i>roi'eed to any 

 point in Bering iSea or in Siberian 

 waters, from which the presence of 

 foreign ships may be reported by 

 the smaller vessels in the course of 

 the season.* 



sary. The supplies and papers for 

 the above-named places may be 

 delivered on the way there, and the 

 furs and the replies may be received 

 on the return voyage. As at the 

 time of the voyage to the northern 

 part of Behring Sea this vessel will 

 also do duty as a cruizer to keep 

 watch over the foreign whalers and 

 the Englishmen, with regard to the 

 trade carried on by them with our 

 savages, it must in no event waste 

 any time, and must be under the 

 command of a naval officer, and, if 

 possible, have a naval crew. 



VI. The third first class vessel 

 will maintain communication with 

 California and the Sandwich Is- 

 lands, carrying there lumber and 

 salted fish, and bringing to the 

 Colonies salt and other merchan- 

 dize, if the purchase of such ap- 

 pears necessary and to the advan- 

 tage of the Company. This vessel 

 must in no case waste any time in 

 foreign ports, but must, immedi- 

 ately after delivering the cargo 

 furnished, if there is no return cargo 

 in readiness for it, return to New 

 Archangel in ballast. But the 

 Colonial Government must make 

 every exertion always to have a 

 cargo ready for immediate dispatch 

 to California or the Sandwich Is- 

 lands, guiding itself by information 

 received from the Company's agent 

 at San Francisco, t^hort Reports 

 (on the most important subjects) 

 must be sent by this vessel on every 

 trip, to be forwarded to the Board 

 of Administration. 



VII. The fourth first- class ves- 

 sel will remain in reserve, and can 

 be employed for carrying salt to 

 Kamchatka in sufficient quantities 

 to last several years ; for transport- 

 ingcargoes of lumber to California; 

 for the inspection of the Colonies 

 by the Chief Manager, &:c. In those 

 yeiu's when it becomes necessary 

 to send to the islands of the Atka 

 district more lumber than can be 

 carried by a small vessel, the voy- 



* The sixth and a portion of the seventh paragraphs being immaterial, have not 

 been translated. 



