APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 381 
(P. 214.) Our Minister at St. Petersburgh to Secretary Adams, April 19, 1824. 
Report on the Minutes of the Conference proceedings: ‘That I must now frankly 
tell them [the Russian Ministers] that my instructions required that I should obtain 
two points as necessary conditions to the third object contemplated by the project of 
Convention: (1) the revocation, either spontaneous or by Convention, of the maritime 
provisions of the Ukase of September 4 (16), 1821; (2) the adoption of the commercial 
principle (or something similar) agreed upon between the United States and Great 
Britain in their Convention of 1818, in relation to these coasts; (3) that, these pre- 
liminaries being settled, a territorial delimitation for settlements at 55° might be 
agreed upon.” 
(In support of the assertion that all the waters of the present Behring’s Sea 
were, at the time of the Treaties and since, officially recognized as belonging to the 
Pacific. ) 
(P. 206.) Russian Minister at Washington to Secretary Adams, February 28, 1822: 
“T ought, in the last place, to request you to consider, sir, that the Russian posses- 
sions in the Pacific Ocean extend on the north-west coast of America, from Behring’s 
Strait to the 51st degree of north latitude, and on the opposite side of Asia and the 
islands adjacent, from the same strait to the 45th degree.” 
(This includes every part of the present Behring’s Sea. ) 
(P. 248.) Treaty of Cession, 20th June, 1867. Last clause of Article I, stating 
western limit of the cession: “ . . . soas to pass midway between the Island 
of Attou and the Copper Island of the Komandorski couplet or group in the North 
PacificiOcean. «2 va 
(Attou lies in 52° 57’, and Copper Island in 54° 35/ to 54° 55/ north, or about 100 
miles more northerly than the Aleutian Island of Attou, and there is no chain of 
islands between Copper Island and our coast-line from Behring’s Strait to the south 
end of the Peninsulaof Alaska, nothing to set off that portion of the Pacific in which 
Copper Island is thus officially stated to lie, from that portion which washes our 
coast. ) 
’ (In support of assertions concerning Treaty stipulations.) 
(Pp. 220-221.) A summary of the 'l'reaty of 1824: 
Article I. Itis agreed that in any part of the great ocean commonly called the Pacific 
Ocean or South Sea, the respective citizens or subjects of the High Contracting 
Powers shall be neither disturbed nor restrained, either in navigation or in 
347 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. 
_Article I forbids the resorting to the respective establishments without permis- 
sion. 
Article III forbids the forming of establishments by either party, north and south 
respectively, of 54° 40/ north. 
Article LV permits, during a term of ten years, the frequenting by either party of 
the interior seas, &c., upon the coast mentioned in the preceding Article. 
(In support of the assertion that Russia ceded to the United States no sea, and no 
dominion over any sea.) 
(P. 247.) Treaty of Cession, 20th June, 1867: 
Article 1. Russia agrees to cede “all the territory and dominion now possessed by 
his said Majesty on the continent of America and in the adjacent islands, the same being 
contained within the geographical limits herein set forth, to wit: The eastern limit 
is the line of demarcation between the Russian and the British possessions in North 
America . . . [the details are omited here as irrelevant, this line not touching 
Behring’s Sea at any point]. The western limit within which the territories and 
dominions conveyed are contained passes through a point in Behring’s Straits, on the 
parallel of 65° 30’ north latitude, at its intersection by the meridian which passes 
midway between the Islands of Krusenstern or Ignalook, and the Island of Ratma- 
noft, or Noonarbook, and proceeds due north, without limitation, into the same 
Frozen Ocean. The same western limit, beginning at the same initial point, pro- 
ceeds thence in a course nearly south-west through Behring’s Straits and Behring’s 
Sea, so as to pass midway between the north-west point of the island of St. Law- 
_rence and the south-east point of Cape Choukotski, to the merdian of 172° west 
longitude; thence from the intersection of that meridian in a south-westerly direc- 
tion, so as to pass midway between the Island of Attou and the Copper Island of the 
Komandorski [Kormandorski is a misprint] couplet or group in the North Pacific 
Ocean, to the meridian of 193° west longitude, so as to include in the territory con- 
veyed the whole of the Aleutian Islands east of that meridian.” 
Article II. In the cession of territory and dominion made by the preceding Article 
‘fare included the right of property in all public lots and squares, vacant lands, and 
all public buildings, fortifications, barracks, and other edifices which are not private 
ees property.” The rest of the provisions refer to churches and to public 
archives, — ; 
