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or Russian ( although amongst their crews there should be found the subjects o { Some other foreign nation ) shall be received and treated as the most favourite nation ; and neither the sailors , nor the passengers shall be forced lo enter , against their will , into the service of enher of the two Contracting Powers , with the exception of such of their subjects whom they may require for their own service ; and if a servant or sailor shall desert from his service or ship , he shall he restored , It is in like manner agreed , that the subjects of the High Contracting Parties may purchase all sorts of things which they may be in want of , at the current price ;

repair and refit their ships , vessels , and carriages ; buy all the provisions necessary for their subsistence or voyage ; stay or depart at their pleasure without molestation or hindrance , provided that they conform themselves to the laws and ordinances of the respective dominions of the High Contracting Parlies , where lhey may be . In like manner , the Russian ships which shall be at sea for the purpose of navigation , aad shall be met by English ships , shall not be hindered in their navigation , provided lhat in lhe British sea they conform Ihemselvc-s to custom ; but every sort of assistance shall be given to them both in the ports subject to Great Britain and

in the open sea . IV . It is agreed that the subjects of Great Britain may carry , bv water or by land , in their own ships and carriages , or in those which they shall have freighted or hired for that purpose , hvo any province whatever of Russia , all sorts of merchandize or effects , of which the trade or entry is not prohibited ; that they shall be permitted to keep them in their houses or magazines , to sell or exchange them wholesale , freelv , and without molestation , without being obliged to become citizens of such city or place where they shall reside or trade . By selling wholesale

is understood one or more hales of goods , chests , casks , barrels , also several dozen of small articles of merchandize of the same kind , collected in the same place , and inconsiderable lots or other sorts of package . It is farther agreed , lhat the subjects of Russia may carry , in the same manner , into the ports of Great Britain and of Ireland , where they shall be established or reside , all sorts of merchandize or effects , of which the trade or the entry is not prohibited , which

is understood equally of the manufactures and productions of the Asiatic Provinces , provided that they be not actually prohibited by some law now in force in Great Britain ; that they shall be permitted to keep them in their houses or magazines , to sell or exchange them wholesale , freely and without molestation , without being obliged to become citizens of such city or place where they shall reside or trade ; and that they may buy and transport out of the dominions of Great Britain all sorts of merchandize and effects which the subjects of any other ' nation may there buy and transport elsewhere , particularly gold and silver , wrought or unwrought ,

except the coined money of Great Britain . It is agreed , that British subjects trading ill the dominions of Russia , shall have the liberty , in case of death , or an extraordinary want , or of an absolute necessity , when there remains no other means ' of procuring money , or in case of bankruptcy , of disposing of their effects , either in Russian or Foreign merchandize , in the manner in which the persons interested shall think most advantageous , The same thing shall be observed with regard to Russian subjects in the dominions of Great Britain . All this is to be understood with the restrictionthat every permission on either sidespecified in this Article

, , , shall be in no wise contrary to the laws of the country , and that the Russian subjects as well as lhe British subjects , and their clerks , conform themselves , on both sides , punctually to the rights , statutes , and ordinances of the country in which they shall trade , in order to obviate all sons of frauds and pretext . It is for this reason the decisions of the said cases happening to the British factories in Russia shall depend , at St . Petersburgh , upon the College of Commerce , and in the other cities , where there is no college of commerce , upon the tribunals which have cognizance of commercial affairs .

V . And in order to preserve a just equality between Russian and British subjects , both the one and the other shall pay the same duties of exportation and of importation , whether it be in Russia or in Great Britain and Ireland , whether it be in Russian or in British vessels ; and no regulation shall be made by lhe High Contracting Parties in favour of its own subjects , which the subjects of lhe other High Contracting Party shall not enjoy , and that understood bona fide under what-