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Should people from the outside enter tlie Russian coneessions at Kashgar, and plunder the property of 
Russian merehants trading there, China will not take any action in the matter. 
Art. VII. The merehants of botli eountries may trade as they please at the various marts, and shall not 
be subjected to any obstruotions on the part of the officials; they may at pleasure frequent the shops and mar- 
kets for trade and harter, and they may there malte ready money payments, or, if they trust each other, open 
credit aeeounts; and, as to the time that the merehants of the one may sojourn in the other country, the only 
limit shall be the merehants’ own pleasure and convenience. 
Art. VIII. Russian merehants in China, and Chinese merehants in Russia, shall reeeive due protection 
from the government of the country. 
In Order to the due control of merehants, and to provide against misunderstandings and disputes, Russian 
Consuls, ete. may be stationed at the yarious trading marts; and, in addition to those at I-li and Tarbagatai, 
Consuls shall be appointed for Kashgar and Koo-lun. China is at liberty to Station Consuls at St. Petersburg, or 
at such other places in Russia as she may see fit. Such Consuls , whether Russian or Chinese , shall reside in 
houses to be built by their government; but they may likewise, without obstruction, rent houses belonging to 
the people of the places at which they may chance to be stationed. 
The Consuls and the local officials shall oorrespond and hold intercourse on terms of equality, as provi- 
ded for by the second article of the Tientsin Treaty. In matters in which the merehants of both countries are 
concerned, the officers of the two governments shall take conjoint action; criminals shall be punished in accor- 
dance with the laws of their country, as directed by the seventh article of the Tientsin Treaty. 
In all cases of disputes originating in the non-payment of money due in mercantile transactions , the 
parties concerned shall themselves call in arbitrators; the Russian Consuls and the Chinese local officials shall 
merely take such action as may tend to bring about an amicable settlement, and shall not in any way be called 
upon or hold responsible for the payment of bad debts. 
At the trading marts, the merehants may register, at the Offices of the Consuls and local authorities, agree- 
ments in reference to property and houses; in such cases, should either of the principals refuse to carry out the 
terms of the registered agreement, the Consuls and local officials shall enforce their fulfilment. 
In cases other than those arising from mercantile transactions, as quarrels and such like small matters, the 
Consuls and local officers shall punish the guilty parties, respectively, as under their several jurisdictions. 
Russians secreting themselves in Chinese houses, or absconding to the inferior of China, shall, on the requi- 
sition of the Consul, be sought for and sent back by the Chinese Authorities; and Russian officials shall actrecipro- 
cally in the event of Chinese hiding in Russian houses or escaping to Russian territory. 
In such serious cases as murder, robbery, wounding, conspiracy to kill, incendiarism, &c., &c., the guilty 
party, if Russian, shall be delivered for punishment to the Russian Authorities; if Chinese, he may be punished 
as the laws direct, by the Chinese Authorities, either at the place where the crime was committed, or at such 
other place as the Chinese officials may deem proper. In all cases, great or little, the Consuls and local officials 
shall each deal with their own countrymen; they shall not, in an irregulär rnanner, arrest, detain or punish 
people not subject to their jurisdiction. 
Art. IX. As compared with former years, trade is now much increased, and, moreover, new bouridaries 
have been laid down ; thus, the condition of affairs differs much from what it was at the times of maldng the- 
Treaties of bfipchu 1 and Kiachta, and the Supplementary stipulations of succeeding years; and the circum- 
stances that gave rise to disputes between the yarious frontier officers no longer remain the same. Such changes, 
in existing regulating regulations, as are necessitated (by the altered state of affairs,) are hereby included in 
newly drawn up stipulations. 
Heretofore official Communications treating of frontier business haye only passed between the High Offioer 
at Koo-lun and the Koo-pih-urh-na-to-urh (Governor) of Kiachta , and between the Governor General of western 
Siberia and the Tartar General stationed at I-li. For the future, in addition to the officers just nam'ed, frontier 
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