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fishing, or in the power of resorting to the coasts, upon points which may not 
already have been occupied, for the purpose of trading with the natives, saving 
always the restrictions and conditions determined by the following Articles. 
Art. IJ. With a view of preventing the rights of navigation and of fishing exer- 
cised upon the great ocean by the citizens and subjects of the High Contracting 
Powers from becoming the pretext for an illicit trade, it is agreed that the citizens 
of the United States shall not resort to any point where there is a Russian establish- 
ment, without the permission of the Governor or Commander; and that, reciprocally, 
the subjects of Russia shall not resort, without permission, to any establishment ef 
the United States upon the north-west coast. 
Art. III. It is moreover agreed that, hereafter, there shall not be formed by the 
citizens of the United States, or under the authority of the said States, any estab- 
lishment upon the north-west coast of America, nor in any of the islands adjacent, 
to the north of 54° 40’ of north latitude; and that, in the same manuer, there shall 
be none formed by Russian subjects, or under the authority of Russia, south of the 
same parallel. 
Art. IV. It is nevertheless understood that, during a term of ten years, counting 
from the signature of the present Convention, the ships of both Powers, or which 
belong to their citizens or subjects, respectively, may reciprocally frequent, without 
any hindrance whatever, the interior seas, gulfs, harbours, and creeks upon the coast 
mecutioned in the preceding Article, for the purpose of fishing and trading with the 
natives of the country. 
Mr. Forsyth to Mr, Dallas. 
DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, May 4, 1837. 
Sir: I regret to have occasion so soon again to advert to a subject connected with 
the claims of the United States to the right of trading with the natives of the 
242 country, and of fishing on the north-west coast of this continent. You will 
perceive from a perusal of the accompanying papers that the expiration of the 
IVth Article of the Convention of 1824 with Russia is not unlikely to be attended 
with difficulties to our citizens frequenting that coast in pursuit of lawful objects. 
The leading features of the case, to which your attention is now invited (the partic- 
ulars of which are more fully detailed in the inclosed copy of a letter, dated the 24th 
November last, from J. C. Jones, Consul of the United States at the Sandwich 
Islands, to this Department, and of the protest to which it refers), are as follows: 
The American brig ‘‘ Loriot,” Blinn, master, sailed from the port of Oahu on the 
22nd August last, bound to the north-west coast of America, for the purpose of pro- 
curing provisions, and also Indians to hunt for sea-otter on the said coast. It appears 
that she made the land called Forrester’s Island on the 14th September following, 
and on the 15th anchored in the harbour of Tuckessan, latitude 54° 55’ north, and 
longitude 152° 30’ west; that on the 18th a Russian armed brig arrived in the 
harbour of Tateskey, latitude 54° 45’ north, and longitude 132° 55/ west; that on the 
succeeding day the ‘*‘ Loriot” was boarded by officers from the Russian brig, who 
ordered the captain of the American vessel to leave the dominions of His Majesty 
the Emperor of Russia; that Captain Blinn then repaired on board the Russian brig, 
where the same orders were repeated to him by the Commander; that on the 20th 
and 23rd days of the same month these orders were reiterated; that on the 25th the 
““Loriot ” was boarded by two armed boats from the Russian brig, and directed to 
get under way and proceed to the harbour of Tateskey; that on the 27th the armed 
boats again boarded the American brig, and compelled the captain to proceed to 
Tateskey; that when off that place, the weather being threatening, permission was 
asked of the Russian Commander to enter the harbour with the ‘ Loriot,” which 
request was denied, and Captain Blinn was again ordered to leave the waters of His 
Imperial Majesty; and that Captain Blinn, being prevented from procuring supplies 
or necessaries for his vessel, and from obtaining any Indians (for the purpose of hunt- 
ing sea-otter), was finally obliged to abandon his voyage and return to the Sandwich 
Islands, where he arrived on the 1st November of the same year. 
The harbours designated in Captain Blinn’s protest by the names of Tuckessan 
and Tateskey are not laid down on any Map to which I[ have referred, and the Depart- 
ment has no knowledge of any Russian establishments having been formed on the 
north-west coast or adjacent islands in or about the latitude given for these places. 
It will, therefore, be proper to ascertain whether there are, in fact, Russian Settle- 
ments at the points designated, and, if so, you are authorized to make a representa- 
tion of the whole subject to His Imperial Majesty’s Government, complaining of the 
proceedings in relation to the “ Loriot,” which are supposed to have been unauthor- 
izedly instigated by the Russian American Fur Company, and stating that the Presi- 
dent cannot but regard this act as one of a most unfriendly character, as the United 
