of any person residing upon the Ottoman soil being
inviolable, and as no one can enter it without the consent of the
owner, except by virtue of orders emanating from competent authority
and with the assistance of the magistrate or functionary invested with
the necessary powers, the residence of foreigners is inviolable on the
same principle, in conformity with the treaties, and the agents of the
public force can not enter it without the assistance of the consul or
of the delegate of the consul of the power on which the foreigner
depends.

By residence we understand the house of inhabitation and its
dependencies; that is to say, the outhouses, courts, gardens, and
neighboring inclosures, to the exclusion of all other parts of the
property.

In the localities distant by less than nine hours' journey from the
consular residence, the agents of the public force can not enter the
residence of a foreigner without the assistance of a consul, as was
before said.

On his part the consul is bound to give his immediate assistance to the
local authority so as not to let six hours elapse between the moment
which he may be informed and the moment of his departure or the
departure of his delegate, so that the action of the authorities may
never be suspended more than twenty-four hours.

In the localities distant by nine hours or more than nine hours of
travel from the residence of the consular agent, the agents of the
public force may, on the request of the local authority, and with the
assistance of three members of the council of the elders of the commune,
enter into the residence of a foreigner without being assisted by the
consular agent, but only in case of urgency and for the search and the
proof of the crime of murder, of attempt at murder, of incendiarism, of
armed robbery either with infraction or by night in an inhabited house,
of armed rebellion, and of the fabrication of counterfeit money; and
this entry may be made whether the crime was committed by a foreigner or
by an Ottoman subject, and whether it took place in the residence of a
foreigner or not in his residence, or in any other place.

These regulations are not applicable but to the parts of the real estate
which constitute the residence, as it has been heretofore defined.

Beyond the residence the action of the police shall be exercised freely
and without reserve; but in case a person charged with crime or offense
should be arrested, and the accused shall be