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 0 Irving B. Riebman, Coifornia under Spaid and Mexico, 1568-1847 (Bos-
ton, 1911), p. 164, footnote 18.
 bid., p. 167.
 SThe base of supplies on the Bumeian River in California established later
by this company had no bearing on territorial claims, since it was admittedly
in Spanish domain.
 Convention signed at St. Petersburg, April 17, 1824, in D. Hunter Miller,
Treaties and Other Interwtional Acts of the United States of America (Wash-
ington, D.C., 1931-), M1:151-162; convention between Great Britain and
ussia signed at St. Petersburg, February 28, 1825, in British and Foreigs
8tate Papers, XII:38-43.
 "Monroe to commissioners, March 22, 1814, in D.S., United States Minis-
ter, Instructions, VII. "That line" was presumably an extension of the Forty-
ninth Parallel.
 Monroe to Baker, July 19, 1815, in D.8., Notes to Foreign Legations, II.
 Convention signed at London, October 20, 1818, in Miller, Treaties, II:
658-662.