on the part of each
Power, the local authorities shall take the most severe measures, and
make the most searching enquiries to arrest him. There shall be
reciprocal extradition of fugitives of this class.

ARTICLE XI.

As it is to be foreseen that the Russian merchants, who shall come to
China on commercial matters, will have with them carriages and beasts of
burden, there shall be assigned for their use, near the city of Ili,
certain places on the banks of the river Ili, and also near the city of
Tarbagatai other places where there is both water and pasturage. In
these encampments the Russian merchants shall confide their animals to
the charge of their own people, who shall take care that neither
cultivated lands nor cemeteries shall be in any case injured or
desecrated. Those who may contravene this enactment shall be brought
before the consul to be punished.

ARTICLE XII.

In the exchange of articles of merchandise between the merchants of the
two Empires, nothing shall be left on credit on either side. If,
notwithstanding this clause, some one should purchase his merchandise on
credit, the Russian and Chinese officials shall on no account interfere,
and shall admit of no complaint, even if cause for such might exist.

ARTICLE XIII.

As Russian merchants arriving in China for commercial reasons should
necessarily have special places for their warehouses, the Chinese
government shall assign them, in the two commercial cities of Ili and
Tarbagatai, plots of land near the bazaar, so that the Russian subjects
may be able to construct there, at their own expense, dwelling-houses
and factories for their wares.

ARTICLE XIV.

The Chinese government shall not interpose obstacles in any case where
Russian subjects celebrate, within their own buildings, divine service
according to the rite of their religion. In case a Russian subject in
China should happen to die either at Ili or at Tarbagatai, the Chinese
government shall set apart an empty space outside the walls of those
cities, to serve as a cemetery.

ARTICLE XV.

If Russian merchants should take to Ili or Tarbagatai sheep for the
purpose of exchanging them, the local authorities shall take, on account
of the government, two sheep out of every ten, and shall give in
exchange for each sheep a piece of linen cloth (_da-ba_, of the legal
measure); the remainder of the animals and every other kind of
merchandise shall be exchanged between the merchants of the tw