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 PROOLAMATION S, 853 regulation, the safeguards which nre due to iinnnciol interests and to ndmmrstrative action, the following legislative enactments have been promulgated byjthe order of His Imperial Majesty, the Sultan: ART. Formgners are admitted, by the same privilege as Ottomairsubgeets, and without any other restriction, to enjoy the right of · holding real estate, whether in the city or the country, throughout the _ empire, with the exception of the province of Hédjaz, by submitting` themselves to the laws and the regulations which govern Ottoman subjects, us is hereafter stated. This arrangement does not concern subjects of Ottoman birth who have changed their nationality, who shall be governed in this matter by at special law. duct. II. Foreigners, proprietors of real estate, in town or in country; are in consequence placed upon terms of equality with Ottoman subjects in all things that concern their landed property. The legal etlect of this equality is-- 1st. To oblige them to conformto all the lows and regulations of the police or of the municipality which govern at present or may govern hereafter the enjoyment, the transmission, the alienation, and the hypothecation of landed property. _2d. To pay all charges and taxes under whatever form or denominal tion they may be, that are levied, or may be levied hereafter, upon city or country property. 3d. To render them directly amenable to the Ottoman civil tribunals in all questions relating to landed property, and in all real actions, whether ns pleintiiis or as defendants, even when either party is a foreigner. In short, they are in all things to hold real estate by the same title, on the same condition, and under the same forms as Ottoman owners, and without being able to avail themselves of their personal - nationality, except under the reserve of the immunities attached to their persons and their movable goods, according to the treaties. Amir. III. In ease of the bankruptcy of a foreigner possessing real estate, the assignees of the bankrupt may apply to the authorities and to the Ottoman civil tribunals requiring the sale of the real estate possessed by the bankrupt and which by its nature and according to law is responsible for the debts of the owner. ‘ The same course shall be followed when n foreigner shall have obtained against another foreigner owning real estate a judgment of condemnation before a foreign tribunal. s For the execution of this judgment against the real estate of his debtor, he shall apply to the competent Ottoman authorities, in order to obtain the sale of that real estate, which is responsible for the debts of { the owner; and this judgment shall be executed by the Ottoman author- · ities and tribunals only after they have decidedthat the real estate of which the sale is required really belongs to the category of that prop- ` erty which may be sold for the payment of debt. ART. IV. Foreigners have the privilege to dispose, by__donation or by testament, of that real estate of which such disposition is permitted by law. As to that real estate of which they may not h_ave clisposed,_or_ot which the law does not permit them to dispose by gift or testament, its _ succession shall be` governed in accordance with Ottoman law. , Amr. V. All foreigners shall enjoy the privileges of the present law i as soon as the Powers on which they depend shall agree to the arrangements proposed by the Sublime Porte for the exercise of the right to hold real estate. _ Now, therefore, be it known that I, ULYSSES S._GRANT, President of Proclamation. the United States of America., have caused the sard Protocol and Law J to be made public for the informatioirand guidance of citxzens of the United States. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be atlixed.