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62 public debt through the medium of the Imperial Government, shall have the right to request, in place of the aforementioned annuity, a single payment of a corresponding sum, capitalized at 4%.

In reference to the preceding paragraph, the Royal Government now acknowledges that the annuity cannot be less than two million Italian lire and that it is ready to pay to the administration of the public debt the corresponding capitalized sum as soon as the demand for it is presented.

The present treaty shall enter into force on the day of its signature.

In faith of which the plenipotentiaries have signed the present treaty and affixed their seals thereto.

Lausanne, Oct. 18, 1912.

The Imperial Russian Government and the Imperial Ottoman Government, co-signatories of the Hague convention of October 18, 1907, for the peaceful settlement of international disputes:

Considering the provisions of Article 5 of the treaty signed at Constantinople between Russia and Turkey, January 27/February 8, 1879, as follows:

The claims of Russian subjects and institutions in Turkey for indemnity on account of damages suffered during the war will be paid as soon as they are examined by the Russian Embassy at Constantinople and transmitted to the Sublime Porte.

The total of these claims shall in no case exceed 26,750,000 francs.

Claims may be presented to the Sublime Porte beginning one year from the date