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7 them from abuse, and regulating their trade and intercourse with our own people. Military officers have no authority to make Indian Treaties. You will, therefore, enter into no negotiations of that kind, or attempt to bind our government to any contracts or agreements, without special authority, and under special instructions. 18. In regard to the tribal and uncivilized Indians on Baranoff Island, and the adjacent Islands and Coast, you will exercise the most careful vigilance, as these natives are known to be both warlike and treacherous. You will consult with the Russian Governor and other officers in regard to regulating their intercourse with the post and settlement of Sitka, and you will strictly enforce, both with regard to the whites and the natives, such regulations as you may deem necessary to adopt with regard to those Indians and their intercourse with our people. It is suggested that they be prohibited from entering, or remaining within, your garrison during the night, and it may bbe well to have guns changed with grape and canister always bearing on their village, ready at an instant's warning to destroy them. Such precautions may prevent serious troubles and disasters. 19.. You will be careful to cultivate friendly relations with all the inhabitants of your District, whether Russian, Creole, or Aboriginal; you will endeavor to impress upon your subordinates the importance of maintaining and cultivating pacific relations with the people of the country; and you will be careful to check and punish any improper conduct on the part of your subordinates, or of the troops under their command. 20. Past history has shown that most of the difficulties, which have occurred in this territory between the natives and foreign settlers, have arisen from a violation of tribal laws or rules in regard to the rights and duties of their females.