prietors.

Protocol concluded August 11, 1874 (Right of Foreigners to hold
real estate in the Ottoman Empire).

1600. PROTOCOL.

The law granting foreigners the right of holding real estate does
not interfere with the immunities specified 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 the right of possessing real property
may induce foreigners to establish themselves in larger numbers
in the Ottoman Empire, the Imperial Government thinks it proper
to anticipate and to prevent the difficulties to which the appli-
cation 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 the compe-
tent authority and with the assistance of the magistrate or fun-
ctionary invested with the necessary powers, the residence of foreign-
ers is inviolable on the same principle, in conformity with the
treaties, and the agents of the public force cannot enter it with-
out the assistance of the Consul or of the delegate of the Consul
of the power on which the foreigner depends.

By residence we understand the house of inhabitation and its
dependencies: that is to say, the out-houses, courts, gardens, and
neighboring inclosures, to the exclusion of all other parts of the
property.

In the localities distant by less than nine hours' journey
from the Consular residence, the agents of the public force cannot
enter the residence of a foreigner without the assistance of a Con-
sul, as was before said.

On his part the Consul is bound to give his immediate 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 author-
ities 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 residence 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 El-
ders of the Commune, enter into the residence of a foreigner, with-
out 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 rebellion, and of the
fabrication of counterfeit money, and this entry may be made whether
the crime was committed by a foreigner or by an Ottoman subject,

prietors.

Protocol concluded August 11, 1874 (Right of Foreigners to hold real estate in the Ottoman Empire).

1600. PROTOCOL.

The law granting foreigners the right of holding real estate does not interfere with the immunities specified 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 the right of possessing real property may induce foreigners to establish themselves in larger numbers in the Ottoman Empire, the Imperial Government thinks it proper to anticipate and to prevent the difficulties 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 the competent authority and with the assistance of the magistrate or functionary invested with the necessary powers, the residence 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 depends.

By residence we understand the house of inhabitation and its dependencies: that is to say, the out-houses, courts, gardens, and neighboring inclosures, to the exclusion of all other parts of the property.

In the localities distant by less than nine hours' journey from the Consular residence, the agents of the public force cannot enter the residence of a foreigner without the assistance of a Consul, as was before said.

On his part the Consul is bound to give his immediate 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 residence 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 residence 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 rebellion, and of the fabrication of counterfeit money, and this entry may be made whether the crime was committed by a foreigner or by an Ottoman subject,