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 The second rute was as follows:

It is therefore prohibited to all foreign ver-els not only to land on the cosste and islands belonging te Rusia, ax stated above, bat also, to approwel theo within less than LOO Italian miles. The transyressor's vessel is subject te contis- cation along with the whole cargo."

Thus all foreign vessels were by this rule forbidden to land upen any of the cousts described in the first rule,

The fourteenth rule was as follows:

It ix likewise interdicted to foreign ships to curry on any trathe or barter with the matives of the islands, and of the warth-west coast of America, iu the whole extent here above mentioned. A ship convicted ot this trade shall be contiscated,

This is an interdiction of trade with the natives ‘of the north- west coust of America in the whole extent™ from Behring Sea to the Sixt degree north latitude.

Russia thus asserted jurisdiction over every part of the north- west coast down to the Sixt degree and forbade trade with the natives of this coast throughout “the whole extent.”

No one would have the bardihood to deny that. hy *cdte™. Russia here meant the entire shore line, including that of bays, inlets, and all interior <alt waters. Tt cannot be said that Russia only intended to interdict trade on the mainland coast, or on the interior waters up toa point where the headlinds were not more thin six miles apart. or that she wanted to control the trade with the nutives living on the coast bordering the open sea. Init not with the natives living far np the Lymm Canal, Taku Inlet, and other like waters. If it le conceded that Russia intended that this ukase should apply as in terms it is expressed, to “the whole extent of the coust.” and 7 the natives of the islands and of the north-west coast of Americn tn the whole extent here above mentioned.” then we start the Inquiry before us with a full nuderstanding of the meunine attached by Russia to the term **cdte™ us applied to such waters as those above indicated, when she provoked the controversy that was closed by the treaty, When Russia neide a treaty in respect of these very rules. and of this very territory, and of these very coasts, it is mfernable, unless the contrary shall be shown, that she did not intend to use the word “edte” ip the treaty in a different sense from that in which she bad

used it in the ukase. el ee 4U.8. C. App., 23-26.