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1Ukase of September 4 [O.S.], 1821, Alaskan Boundary Tribunal, Proceedings (Washington, 1904), II, 25; for original text, see P. Tikhmenev, Istoricheskoe Obozranie Obrazovanie Rossiysko Amerikanskoi Kompaniy [Historical Survey of the Formation of the Russian American Company] (St. Petersburg, 1861-1863), I, approx. p. 27. The Ukase was signed by Count D. Guriev, Minister of Finance. The Italian mile is equal to one minute of latitude or 1,620 yards (4,860 feet); it is, therefore, 420 feet shorter than the English mile. It is also the same distance as the ancient Roman mile which Russia had carried over into the modern era. One hundred Italian miles is approximately thirty marine leagues, a limit chosen because of precedents found in both the Treaty of Utrecht (1713) and the Treaty of Ghent (1814). George Davidson, The Alaska Boundary (San Francisco, 1903), 44-45. 2 Harold Temperley erroneously gives September 28 as the date of this decree, having added twelve days to the New Style date of the 16th; see The Foreign Policy of Canning, 1822-1827 (London, 1925), 104. |
