STALE RAP ER S, 
them, and refide thercin, be ex- 
empted from having foldiers quar- 
tered in them; but fuch houfes as 
they fhall let or hire fhall be fub- 
jected to all city taxes, the tenant 
and proprictor agreeing with each 
other on that fubject. As to every 
other city in Ruffia, the houfes 
which they fhatl purchafe or build, 
as weil as thofe which they fhall 
hire or let, fhall not be exempt 
from having foldiers quartered in 
them. It is, in like manner, per- 
mitted to Ruffian merchants to 
build, buy, fell, and hire houfes in 
Great Britain and Ireland, and to 
difpofe of them as it is allowed to 
the fubjeéts of the moit favoured 
nations. They ihall have the free 
exercife of the Greek religion in 
their own houfes, or in the places 
allotted for that purpofe. In like 
‘manner Britifh merchants fhall have 
thé free exercife of the Proteftant 
religion. The fubjects of both the 
one and the other power, eflablifh- 
ed in Rvffia or in Great Britain, 
fhall have the difpofal of their pro- 
rty, and the power of leaving it 
y will to whom they fhall judye 
proper, according to the cuftom 
and the laws of their own country. 
XV.. Paffports fhall be granted to 
all Britith fubjeéts who {hall defire 
to quit Ruflia, after having pub- 
lifhed their names and places of 
abode in the Gazettes, according to 
the cuftom of the prefent day, 
without obliging them to give fe- 
curity; and if at the time there 
does not appear any juft caufe for 
detaining them, they fhall be per- 
mitted to depart, after providing 
themfelves, however, with paffports 
from the tribunals eftablifhed for 
that purpofe. The fame facility 
fhall be granted, on the like occa- 
fion, according to the cuftom ef 
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the country, to Ruffian fubjedts 
who fhall defire to quit the domini- 
ons of Great Britain. 
XVI. Britifh merchants, who 
fhiall hire or keep fervants, hall be 
obliged to confSrm themfelves to 
the laws of the empire upon this 
fubje&; which Ruffian merchants 
fhall be equally obliged to. do in 
Great Britain. 
XVI. In all law-fuits and other 
affairs, Britifh merchants fhall not 
be under any other jurifdiction 
than that of the college of com- 
merce, or that which fhall be here- 
after eftablifhed for the adminiftra- 
tion of juftice between merchants. 
Ifit fhould happen, however, that 
Britifh merchants were to have 
law-fuits in any cities at a diftance 
from the above-mentioned college 
of commerce, both they and the 
other party fhall carry their com- 
plaint before the magiftrates of the 
faid cities. Ruifian merchants in 
Great Britain fhall have reciprocally 
the fame proteétion and juftice, ac- 
cording to the laws of that king- 
dom, which other foreign mer- 
chants have there, and fhall be 
treated in the fame manner as the 
fubjects of the moft favoured na- 
tion. 
XVII. Ruffian merchants refid- 
ing in Great Britain, and Britifh 
merchants refiding in Ruffia, fhall 
not be obliged to fhew their books 
or papers to any perfon whatfo- 
ever, unlefs it be to afford evidence 
in courts of juftice; neither fhall 
the faid books or papers be taken 
or detained. If it fhould happen, 
however, that a Britifh merchant 
becomes a bankrupt, the affair fhalk. 
be under the jurifdifion, at St. 
Peterfburgh, of the college of com- 
merce, or of that which {hall here- 
after be eftablifhed for the Patni. 
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