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ARTICLE 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 hin- 
drance whatever, the interior seas, gulfs, harbours, and creeks upon the coast 
58 mentioned in the preceding Article, for the purpose of fishing and trading 
with the natives of the country. 
ARTICLE V. 
All spirituous liquors, fire-arms, other arms, powder, and munitions of war of every 
kind are always excepted from this same commerce permitted by the preceding Arti- 
ele; and the two Powers engage, reciprocally, neither to sell nor suffer them to be sold 
to the natives by their respective citizens and subjects, nor by any person who may 
be under their authority. It is likewise stipulated that this restriction shall never 
afford a pretext, nor be advanced in any case to authorize either search or detention 
of the vessels, seizure of the merchandize, or, in fine, any measures of constraint 
whatever towards the merchants or the crews who may carry on this commerce; the 
High Contracting Powers reciprocally reserving to themselves to determine upon the 
penalties to be incurred, and to inflict the punishments in case of the contravention 
of this Article by their respective citizens or subjects. 
ARTICLE VI. 
When this Convention shall have been duly ratified by the President of the United 
States, with the advice and consent of the Senate on the one part, and on the other 
by His Majesty the Emperor of All the Russias, the ratifications shall be exchanged 
at Washington in the space of ten months from the date below, or sooner if possible. 
In faith whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed this Convention, 
and thereto affixed the seals of their arms. 
Done at St. Petersburgh the 5th (17th) April, of the year of Grace one thousand 
eight hundred and twenty four. 
[SEAL. ] HENRY MIDDLETON. 
[SEAL. ] Le Comte CHARLES DE NESSELRODE. 
[SEAL. ] PIERRE DE POLETICA. 
Convention between Great Britain and Russia.—Signed at St, Petersburgh, February 16 
28), 1825; Presented to Parliament May 16, 1825, 
In the Name of the Most Holy and Undivided Trinity. 
His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and 
His Majesty the Emperor of All the Russias, being desirous of drawing still closer 
the ties of good understanding and friendship which unite them, by means of an 
Agreement which may settle, upon the basis of reciprocal convenience, different 
points connected with the commerce, navigation, and fisheries of their subjects on 
the Pacific Ocean, as well as the limits of their respective possessions on the north- 
west coast of America, have named Plenipotentiaries to conclude a Convention for 
this purpose, that is to say: 
His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain ana Ireland, the 
Right Honourable Stratford Canning, a Member of His said Majesty’s Most Honour- 
able Privy Council, &ce. 
And His Majesty the Emperor of All the Russias, the Sieur Charles Robert, Count 
de Nesselrode, His Imperial-Majesty’s Privy Councillor, a Member of the Council of 
the Empire, Secretary of State for the Department of Foreign Affairs, &c.; and the 
Sieur Pierre de Poletica, His Imperial Majesty’s Councillor of State, &e.; 
Who, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, found 
in good and due form, have agreed upon and signed the following Articles: 
ARTICLE I. 
It is agreed that the respective subjects of the High Contracting Parties shall not 
be troubled or molested in any part of the ocean, commonly called the Pacific Ocean, 
either in navigating the same, in fishing therein, or in landing at such parts of the 
coast as shall not have been already occupied, in order to trade with the natives, 
under the restrictions and conditions specified in the following Articles. 
