Business may be transacted by tbe Koo-pih-urh-na-to-urh of the Amoor and Tung-hae-peen (eastern sea sbore) 
provinces, in communication witb the Tartar General stationed in Hih-lung-keang and ICee-lin. 
Matters in which Kiachta is concerned sball be attended to by the Kome-sa-urh (? Commissioner, or Comissary) 
stationed on the Kiachta frontier, in communication with the officer of the Board at Kiachta. All (such Communi- 
cations, &c.) shall be in accordance with the provisions of the eighth Article of this Convention. 
The said Generals, Governors, and other officers shall correspond on terms of equality, in accordance 
with the second article of the Tientsin Treaty. Moreover, if the despatches written refer to business that ouglit 
not to be entered upon, no attention shall be paid to them. 
In respect of frontier business of great importance, the Governor General of Eastern Siberia shall com- 
municate tkereon with either the Privy Council or the Foreign Office. 
Art. X. All frontier business, whether of importance or otherwise, shall be managed by conjoint action 
on the part of the frontier officers, as laid down in the eighth article of this Convention ; and, as provided for 
by the seventh article of the Tientsin Treaty, offenders shall be tried and punished in accordance with the 
laws of that one of the two countries to which they may belong. 
Should cattle stray or be decoyed across the frontier boundaries, the officers of the locality on being 
informed of the fact by official communication, shall, without delay, despatch people to search for them; they 
shall likewise give full Information to the soldiery at the frontier posts, who shall be bound to recover and 
send back such cattle, whether straying or stolen, in accordance with the numbers reported in the original 
communication, and who, should they fail to restore the property that is missing, shall be punished, as the 
laws direct, in a manner proprotionate to the value of what is lost. No claim for compensation shall be 
entertained. 
In the event of runaways Crossing the frontier, measures shall be taken for their discovery, and arrest 
immediately upon the receipt of an official requisition to that effect ; and, on the arrest having been effected, the 
prisoners, with whatever property may be found in their possession, shall be handed over to the nearest frontier 
officer, whose duty it shall be to ascertain the place from which such persons may have absconded. 
The runaways, while on the return journey under arrest, shall be supplied with food, and, if naked, with 
clothes ; and they shall neither be maltreated nor insulted by the soldiers. Runaways arrested prior to the receipt of 
any such official requisition, shall also be dealt with in like mariner. 
Art. XI. Answers shall be returned to Communications transmitted through intermediate officers by the 
officials on the frontiers. The despatches of the Governor General of Eastern Siberia and of the Koo-pih-urh-na- 
to-urh (Governor) of Kiachta shall be handed to the Ko-me-sa-urh (Commissioner or Commissary General) of 
Kiachta fer transmission to the officer of the board. The despatches of the High officer stationed at Koo-lun 
shall be handed to the officer of the Board for transmission to the Ko-me-sa-urh of Kiachta. The despatches of 
the Koo-pih-urh-na-to-urh of the Amoor province, shall be forwarded to the Tartar General at Hih-lung-Keang, 
through the Adjutant General of Ayham ; the said Adjutant General shall likewise transmit the despatches of 
the Kee-lin General. Despatches passing between the Koo-pih-urh-na-to-urh of the Tung-hae-peen province and 
General stationed at Kee-lin, shall be transmitted through the officers at the frontier posts of Hongchun in the 
Usuri territory. Communications between the Governor General of Western Siberia and the General stationed 
at I-li, shall be transmitted through the Russian Consul at I-li. Whenever the business in question is of great 
importance, official messengers shall be employed. The Governor General of Eastern and Western Siberia and 
the various Koo-pih-urh-na-to-urh (Governors of Provincial Districts) together with the High officer at Koo- 
lun and the Tartar Generals stationed at Hih-lung-keang, Kee-lin and I-li, in the transmission of offfcial Com- 
munications, may entrüst them to trustworthy Russian officers. 
Art. XII. As was stipulated for in the eleventli article of the Tientsin Treaty, the time allowed for the 
conveyance of official documents and parcels from Kiachta to Peking is here in defined. 
Letters shall be forwarded once a month. Parcels and boxes, from Kiachta to Peking, shall be forwarded 
once every two months, and quaterly from Peking to Kiachta. Official documents shall not be more than twenty, 
nor parcels more than forty days en route', and as regards parcels , there shall never be more than twenty 
packages forwarded at a time, and no single package shall exceed 120 catties in weigth. Letters shall not be 
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