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A PROCLAMATION

KNOW ALL BY THESE PRESENTS;

That I, Allan Rudyard Crawford,a native of CANADA
and a British subject and those men whose names appear
below,members of the Wrangel Island Detachment of the
Stefansson Arctic Expedition of 1921-,on the advice and
council of Vilhjalmur Stefansson,a British subject,have
this day,in consideration of lapses of foreign claims
and the occupancy from March 12th 1914 to September 7th
1914 of this island by the survivors of the brigantine
Karluk,Captain R.A.Bartlett commanding,the property of
the Government of CANADA chartered to operate in the
Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913-1918 of which survi-
vors Chief Engineer Munro,a native of SCOTLAND and a
British subject,raised the Canadian flag,raised the
British flag and declared this land known as WRANGEL
Island to be the just possession of His Majesty GEORGE,
King of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND and the Dominions
beyond the Seas,Emperor of INDIA,etc.,and a part of the
BRITISH EMPIRE.

Signed and deposited in this monument this
sixteenth day of September in the year of our Lord one
thousand nine hundred and twenty one.

[Signature:]Allan R Crawford Commander
[Signature:][?[E. ? Knight]] Second in command
[Signature:][?[J W Maurer]]
[Signature:][?[Miles ?]]

WRANGEL ISLAND,3ept.16th,1921.

GOD SAVE THE KING

WRANGEL ISLAND PROCLAMATION.