, this 27th day of October, A.D. 1874,
and of the Independence of the United States the ninety-ninth.

[SEAL.]

U.S. GRANT.

By the President:
HAMILTON FISH,
_Secretary of State_.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas, pursuant to the second section of the act of Congress approved
the 23d of March last, entitled "An act to authorize the President to
accept for citizens of the United States the jurisdiction of certain
tribunals in the Ottoman dominions and Egypt, established or to be
established under the authority of the Sublime Porte and of the
Government of Egypt," the President is authorized, for the benefit of
American citizens residing in the Turkish dominions, to accept the
recent law of the Ottoman Porte ceding the right of foreigners
possessing immovable property in said dominions; and

Whereas, pursuant to the authority thus in me vested, I have authorized
George H. Boker, accredited as minister resident of the United States
to the Ottoman Porte, to sign on behalf of this Government the protocol
accepting the law aforesaid of the said Ottoman Porte, which protocol
and law are, word for word, as follows:

[Translation.]

The United States of America and His Majesty the Sultan being desirous
to establish by a special act the agreement entered upon between them
regarding the admission of American citizens to the right of holding
real estate granted to foreigners by the law promulgated on the 7th of
Sepher, 1284 (January 18, 1867), have authorized:

The President of the United States of America, George H. Boker,
minister resident of the United States of America near the Sublime
Porte, and

His Imperial Majesty the Sultan, His Excellency A. Aarifi Pasha, his
minister of foreign affairs, to sign the protocol which follows:

PROTOCOL.

The law granting foreigners the right of holding real estate does not
interfere with the immunities specified by the treaties, and which will
continue to protect the person and the movable property of foreigners
who may become owners of real estate.

As the exercise of this right of possessing real property may induce
foreigners to establish themselves in larger numbers in the Ottoman
Empire, the Imperial Government thinks it proper to anticipate and to
prevent the difficulties to which the application of this law may give
rise in certain localities. Such is the object of the arrangements
which follow:

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