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 3844 LETTERS ROGATORY-SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS. States. In addition to this fee) remulleration for the services of experts as well as for the travelling expenses and expenditure of time by witnesses may be requested in individual cases, such remu· nera;tion to be based on rates current at the time as fixed by law or regulation then existing. Payment of fees and other possible expenses of the nature referred to above will be effected in dollars by the American Embassy at Moscow upon receipt from the Peo- ple's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs of the executed letters roga- tory and an appropriate statement setting forth the amount due, and the fees and services covered thereby. 6. The court in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics by which the letters rogatory are executed shall give effect to them in accord- ance with the procedural rules obtaining in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. 7. The court issuing the letters rogatory ::;hall, if it so desires, be informed of the date and place where the proceedings will take place, in order that the interested parties or their legal representa- tives may, if they desire, be present. 8. The execution of letters rogatory issuing out of a court in the United States may be refused in whole or in part, if the appropriate authorities in the Union of Soviet Socialist RepUblics consider that the execution thereof would affect its sovereignty or safety. In returning letters rogatory unexecuted in whole or in part, the authorities refusing such execution shall affix under seal to the letters rogat.ory a written statement of the reasons for such refusal. 9. Any difficulties which mny arise in connection with a request by a court in the United States for the execution of letters rogatory in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ~hall be settled through the diplomatic channel. While letters rogatory must be tl'ansmittc(l through the diplo- matic channel, American diplomatic alJ(l ('onsular institutions may, in connection with cases pending in th~ United States courts, serve juridical documents on American nationals within the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, without the application of coercion. Accept, Mr. Ambassador, the renewed assurances 01' my highest consideration. M. LITHNOFF Mr. 'V ILLIA l \ I C. BULLITT, Ambassador of the United States of America, Moscow. [No. 831