Foreign Relations of the United States, 1902, Whaling and Sealing Claims Against Russia, On Account of Arrest and Seizure of the American Vessels “Cape Horn Pigeon,” “James Hamilton Lewis,” “C. H. White,” and “Kate and Anna,” Appendix I

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Embassy of the United States of America,St. Petersburg.

I, Herbert H. D. Peirce, secretary of the embassy of the United States of America at St. Petersburg, agent and counsel for the United States, hereby certify that the documents hereto annexed are true copies of the originals submitted to the honorable arbitrator, Mr. T. M. C. Asser, the copy of the map hereto annexed being a true copy of that part of a map published by the United States Coast Survey showing the Commandorski Islands.

In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the embassy of the United States at St. Petersburg this fifth day of August, in the year one thousand nine hundred and one.

(Signed)

Herbert H. D. Peirce.

[Seal of the United States embassy at St. Petersburg.]