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 2386 TREATY—ESTHONIA. Dmcnmmn 23, 1925. of every kind, National, State, Provincial and Municipal, other than assessments levied for services or local public improvements by which the premises are benelited. ARTICLE XIX. Am M ¤¤¤ ¤* Consular oihcers ma lace over the outer door of their respective °°°°°m°°' oliices the arms of theii State with an appropriate inscription desig- nating the oiicial ollice. Such ollicers may also hoist the flag of their country on their oilices including those situated in the capitals of the two countries. They may likewise hoist such flag over any boat or vessel employed in the exercise of the consular function. m,§g‘;§§’}f§,*},‘,§f,,g‘ °" The Consular oliices and archives shall at all times be_ inviolable. They shall under no circumstances be subjected to invasion by any authorities of any character within the country where such oflices are located. Nor shall the authorities under any pretext make any examination or seizure of papers or other property deposited within a consular oiiice. Consular oilices shall not be use as places of asylum. No consular oilicers shall be required to produce oilicial archives in court or testify as to their contents. m .E:,‘{,’§.,;§: $ Upon the death, incapacity, or absence of a consular oilicer having “°°”· no subordinate consular oilicer at his post, secretaries or chancellors, whose oilicial character may have previously been made known to thsexgovernment of the State where the consular function was exer- ci, may temporarily exercise the consular function of the de- ceased or incapacitated or absent consular oilicer; and while _so acting shall enjoy all the rights, prerogatives and immunities granted to the incumbent. ARTICLE XX. ivfuiaa wrwm- Consular oiiicers, nationals of the State by which they are ag- 2.,3,2.-y,{,’§¤ E{2°¤,.?,$ pointed, ma§, withm their respective consular districts, a dress t e authorities, ational, State, Provincial or Municipal, for the purpose of protecting their countrymen in the enjoyment of their rights accruing by treaty or otherwise. Complaint may be made for the infraction of those rgghts. Failure upon the part of the proper authorities to grant ress or to accord protection may justify inter- gosition through the diplomatic channel, and in the absence of a iplomatic representative, a consul general or the consular oiiicer stationed at the capital may apply directly to the government 'of the country. ARTICLE XXI. Notarlal ms. ew. Consular oilicers ma, in ursuance of the laws of their own b°i>°·i°prA•iun1i>r¤:ii‘E€•ii°` country, take, at any yapprolpriato place within their respective districts, the depositions o any occupants of vessels of the1r own country, or of any national of, or of any person havin permanent residence within the territories cf, their own conmtry. Such oiiicers may draw up, attest, certify and authenticate unilateral acts, deeds, an testamentary dispositions of their countrymen, and also con- tracts to which a coimtryman is a party. They may draw up, attest, certify and authenticate written instruments of any kind purporting to express or embody the conveyance or encumbrance of ro erty of any kind within t e territory of the State by which such ogcers are appointed, and unilateral acts, deeds, testamentary dispositions and contracts relating to property situated, or business to be trans- acted within, the territories of the State by which they are ap- pointed, embracing unilateral acts, deeds, testamentary dispositions

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