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[Inclosure in No. 185.} 
Extracts from Part IV of the Message from the President of the United States of 
February 12, 1889, 50th Congress, 2nd Session, Ex. Doc. No. 106. 
Mr. Poletica to Mr. Adams. 
{ Translation. ] 
WASHINGTON, January 30 (February 11), 1822. 
The Undersigned, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of His 
Majesty the Emperor of All the Russias, in consequence of orders which have lately 
reached him, hastens herewith to transmit to Mr. Adams, Secretary of State in the 
Department of Foreign Affairs, a printed copy of the Regulations adopted by the 
Russian-American Company, and sanctioned by His Imperial Majesty, relative to 
foreign commerce in the waters bordering the establishments of the said Company 
on the north-west coast of America. 
The Undersigned conceives it to be, moreover, his duty to inform Mr. Adams that 
the Imperial Government, in adopting the Regulation, supposes that a foreign ship, 
which shall have sailed from a European port after the 1st March, 1822, or from one 
of the perts of the United States after the Ist July of the same year, cannot law- 
fully pretend ignorance of these pew measures. 
The Undersigned, &C. 
(Signed) PIERRE DE POLETICA. 
[Inclosure 1.] 
Edict of His Imperial Majesty, Autocrat of All the Russias. 
The directing Senate maketh known unto all men: 
Whereas in an Edict of His Imperial Majesty issued to the directing Senate on the 
4th day of September, and signed by His Majesty’s own hand, it is thus expressed: 
“Observing, from Reports submitted to us, that the trade of our subjects on the 
Aleutian Islands and on the north-west coast of America, appertaining unto Russia, 
is subject, because of secret and illicit traffic, to oppression aud impediments; and 
finding that the principal cause of these difficulties is the want of Rules establishing 
the boundaries for nav igation along these coasts, and the order of naval communi- 
cation, as well in these places as on the whole of the eastern coast of Siberia 
239 and the Kurile Islands, we have deemed it necessary to determine these com- 
munications by specific Regulations, which are hereto attached. 
“Tn forwarding these Regulations to the directing Senate, we command that the 
same be published for universal information, and that the proper measures be taken 
to carry them into execution.” 
(Signed) Count D. Gurirr, Minister of Finances. 
It is therefore decreed by the directing Senate that His Imperial Majesty’s Edict 
be published for the information of all men, and that the same be obeyed by all whom 
it may concern. 
[The original is signed by the directing Senate. ] 
Printed at St. Petersburgh. In the Senate, the 7th September, 1821. 
[On the original is wr itten, in the hand writing of His Imperial Majesty, thus :] 
Be it accordingly. 
(Signed) ALEXANDER. 
KAMENNOY OsTROFF, September 4, 1821. 
{Inclosure 2.] 
Rules established for the Limits of Navigation and Order of Communication along the 
coast of the Kastern Siberia, the north-western coast of America, and the Aleutian, 
Kurile, and other Islands. 
Section 1. The pursuits of commerce, whaling, and fishing, and of all other indus- 
try, on all islands, ports, and gulfs, including the whole of the north-west coast of 
America, beginning from Behring’s Strait to the 51st degree of northern latitude; 
also from the Aleutian Islands to the eastern coast of Siberia, as well as along the 
Kurile Islands from Behring’s Strait to the south cape of the Island of Urup, viz., to 
45° 50’ northern latitude, are exclusively granted to Russian subjects. 
