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 FRIENDSHIP, ETC., TREATY-POLAND. JUNE 15, 1931. 1527 or the consular officer stationed at the capital may apply directly to the government of the country ARTICLE XXI Consular officers, in pursuance. of the laws of their own country may (a) take, at any appropriate place within their respective dis- tricts, the depositions of any occupants of vessels of their own country, or of any national of, or of any person having perma- nent resIdence within the terri- tories of, their own country; (b) draw up, attest, certify and authenticate unilateral acts, trans- lations, deeds, and testamentary dispositions of their countrymen, and also contracts to which a countryman is a party; (c) au- thenticate signatures; (d) draw up, attest, certify and authenti- cate written instruments of any kind purporting to express or embody the conveyance or encum- brance of property of any kind within the territory of the State by which such officers are ap- pointed, and unilateral acts, deeds, testamentary dispositions and contracts relating to property situated, or business to be trans- acted). within the territories of the I::)tate by which they are appointed. Instruments and documents thus executed and copies and translations thereof, when duly authenticated by the consular officer, under his official seal, shall be received as evidence in the territories of the Contract- ing Parties as original documents or authenticated copies, as the case may be, and shall have the same force and effect as if drawn by and executed before a notary or other public officer duly au- thorized in the country by which the consular officer was ap- pointed; provided, always, that such documents shall have been lub urz~nik konsularny, urz~u­ jllCY w stolicy, zwroci6 si~ moie bezpo§rednio do Rz~u danego kraJu. ARTYKUl. XXI Urz~nicy konsularni mog~ w oo:=..e&c.· by ~konaniu praw sw~o wlasnego Paflstwa: af przYlrnowa.6 w kaZdem nadaj~em si~ do tego miejscu w grani~h ich okr~, zeznania. wszelkich osob znai- duj~ych si~ na statkach ich kraju lub jakichkolwiek obywateli ich Panstwa albo tei osob majllCych miejsce stalego zamie- szkania na terytorjum tegoi Panstwa; bl sporz~zae, zdwia.d- AutbeDticatlons, eec. czae fattest, certifyI i uwierzy- telniae jednostronne akty prawne, podpisy, tlumaczenia, dokumenty 1 rozporz~zenia testamentowe swych obywateli, jak rOwniei kontrakty, w ktoflch obywatel ich Panstwa jest ledn~ z urna- wiajll-cych si~ stron; cl uwierzy- telniae podpisy; dl sporz~ae, za§wiadczae lattest, certify" 1 uwierzytelniae dokurnenty wszel- kiego rodzaju, wyrazaj~e lub zawieraj~e jakiekolwiek przenie- sienie lub obci~zenie wlasnoki ,,:szelkiego rodzaj~, znajduj~ej Sl~ na terytorJum Panstwa wysylaj~ego, jakotez jedno- stronne akty prawne, dokumenty, rozporzqdzema testarnentowe 1 kontrakty, odnos c:t ~e si~ do mienia polozonego na terytorjum Pail- stwa wysylaj~ego, lub do tran- zakcji, ktora rna tam bye doko- nana. Dokurnenty i akty w ten spos6b ElJect as evldenoe. sporzqdzone, jakotez OdplSy z nich i tlumaczenia, jeieli zostaly przez urz~dnika konsularnego nalezycie uwierz~telnione i zao- patrzone jego plecz~i~ urz~o- wq, uznawane b~dq za doku- menty dowodowe na terytorjach Uma",iaj~ych si~ Stron i uwa- zane b~dq za dokumenty orygi- naIne lub wierzyteIne odpisy, stosownie do wypadku, oraz po- siadae b~q takq sam~ moc i skutki prawne, jak gdyby byly sporz~zone i za§wiadczone przez notarjusza lub innego urz~nika publicznego odpowlednio upo-