The Russian-American Company Under the High Patronage of His Imperial Majesty (Russian: Под высочайшим Его Императорского Величества покровительством Российская-Американская Компания, romanized: Pod vysochayshim Yego Imperatorskogo Velichestva pokrovitelstvom Rossiyskaya-Amerikanskaya Kompaniya) was a state-sponsored chartered company formed largely on the basis of the United American Company. Emperor Paul I of Russia chartered the company in the Ukase of 1799. It had the mission of establishing new settlements in Russian America, conducting trade with natives, and carrying out an expanded colonization program.