V. N. R. G. XI

Etats-Unis, Turquie.

them regarding the admission of American citizens to the right of holding real estate, granted to foreigners by the law promulgated on the 7th of Sepher, 1284, (January 18th 1867)*) have authorized:

The Président of the United States of America George H. Boker, Minister Résident of the United States of America near the Sublime Porte, and His Impérial Majesty the Sultan His Excellence A. Aarifi Pasha, His Minister of Foreign Affairs, to sign the Protocol which follows:

Protocol.

The law granting foreigners the right of holding real estate does not interfère with the immunities by the treaties, and which will continue to protect the person and the movable property of foreigners who may become owners of real estate.

As the exercise of this right of possessing real property may induce foreigners to establish themselves in larger numbers in the Ottoman Empire, the Impérial government thinks it proper to anticipate and to prevent the difficultés to which - the application of this law may give rise in certain localities. Such is the object of the arrangements which follow.

The domicile of any person residing upon the Ottoman soil being inviolable, and as no one can enter it without the consent of the owner, except by virtue of orders emanating from compétent authority and with the assistance of the magistrate or functionary invested with the necessary powers, the résidence of foreigners is inviolable on the same principle, in conformity with the treaties, and the agents of the public force cannot enter it without the assistance of the consul or of the delegate of the consul of the Power on which the foreigner dépends. »

By résidence we understand the house of inhabitation and its dependencies: that is to say, the out houses, courts, gardens and neighboring enclosures, to the exclusion of ail other parts of the property.

In the localities distant by less than nine hours journey from the consular résidence, the agents of the public force cannot enter the résidence of a foreigner without the assistance of a consul, as was before said.

On his part the consul is bound to give his immédiate assistance to the local authority, so as not to let six hours elapse between the moment which he may be informed and the moment of his departure, or the departure of his delegate, so that the action of the authorities may never be suspended more than twenty-four hours.

In the localities distant by nine hours or more than nine hours of travel from the résidence of the consular agent, the agents of the public force may on the request of the local authority and with the assistance of three members of the Council of the Elders of the Commune, enter into the résidence of a foreigner, without being assisted by the consular agent, but only in case of urgency, and for the search and the proof of the crime of murder, of attempt at murder , of incendiarism, of armed robbery either with infraction or by night in an inhabited house, of armed rébellion and