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shall be in the sea and land service ; and they shall be permitted , previous to or at their departure , to consign the effects of which they shall not have disposed , as well as the debts to which they may have a claim , to such person as they shall judge proper , to be disposed . of according to their will and profit ; which debts the debtor shall equally be obliged to pay as if the rupture had not taken place . XIII . In the event of a shipwreck happening in a place belonging to one or other of the High Contracting Parties , not only every assistance shall be given to the unfortunate persons , and no violence done to thetn , but also the effects which

they shall have thrown out of the ship info the sea shall not be concealed , detained nor damaged , under any pretext whatever ; on lhe contrary , the above-mentioned effects and merchandize shall be preserved and res : ored to them , upon a suitable recompence being given to those who shall have assisted in saving their persons , vessels , and effects . XIV . It shall be permitted to British merchants to build , buy , sell , and hire houses in all states and cities of Russia , excepting only the permission of building , buyingsellingand hiring houses in those cities of the empire which have

par-, , ticular rights of citizenship , and privileges contrary thereto ; and it is expressly stipulated , that at St . Petersburg !) , Moscow , Archangel , Riga , and Narva , as well as in all the ports of the Black Sea , the houses which British merchants shall have purchased or built , shall , as long as they shall continue to belong to them , and reside therein , be exempted from having soldiers quartered in them ; but such houses as they shall let or hire , shah be subjected to all city taxes , the tenant and proprietor agreeing with each other on that subject . As to every other city of Russiathe houses which they shall purchase or buildas well as those which

, , they shall hire or let , shall not be exempted from having soldiers quartered in them . It is , in like manner , permitted to Russian merchants to build , buy , sell , and hire houses in Great Britain and Ireland , and to dispose of them as it is allowed to the subjects of the most favoured nations . They shall have the free exercise of the Greek religion to their own houses , oriti the places allotted for that purpose : in like manner British merchants shall have the free exercise of the

Protestant religon . The subjects of both the one and the other Bower , established in Russia or in Great Britain , shall have the disposal of their property , and the power of leaving it by will to whom they shall judge proper , according to the cus- ^ torn and laws of their own country . XV . Passports shall be granted to all British subjects who shall desire to quit Russia , after having published their names and places of abode in the gazettes , according to the custom of the present day , without obliging them to give security ; and if at the time there does not appear any just cause for detaining them ,

they shall be permitted to depart , after providing themselves , however , with pass » ports from the tribunals established for that purpose . The same facility shall be granted , on the like occasion , according to lhe cus'om . of the country to Russian subjects , who shall desire to quit the dominions of Great Britain . XVI . British merchants , who shall hire or keep servants , shall be obliged to conform themselves to the laws of that Empire upon this subject , which Russian merchants shall be equally obliged to do in Great Britain . XVII . In all law-suits and other affairs , British merchants shall not be under

ariy other jurisdiction than that of the College of Commerce , or that which shall be hereafter established for the administration of justice between merchants . If it should happen , however , that British merchants were to have law-suits in any cities at a distance from lhe above-mentioned College of Commerce , both thev and the other party shall carry ( heir complaint before the magistrates of the said cities . Russian merchants in Great Britain shall have reciprocally the same pro- ? tection and justice , according to the laws of that kingdom , which other foreign merchants have thereand shall be treated in the same manner as the subjects of

, the most fa oured nation . XVIII . Russian mcichants residing in Great Britain , and British merchants residing in Russia , shall not be obliged lo shew their bocks or papers to any person whatsoever , unless it be to afford evidence in courts of justice ; neither shall the . said books or papers be taken nor detained . If it should happen , however , that a British merchant becomes a bankrupt , the affair shall be under the jurisdiction ) .