o Empires
at a price mutually agreed upon, and the Chinese government shall not
intermeddle in any manner whatsoever.

ARTICLE XVI.

The ordinary official correspondence between the two Empires shall be
made, on the part of the Russian government, through the medium of the
superior administration of Western Siberia, and under the seal of that
administration; and on the part of the Chinese government through the
medium, and under the seal, of the superior administration of Ili.

ARTICLE XVII.

The present Treaty shall be authenticated by the signatures and seals of
the respective plenipotentiaries. On the part of Russia there will be
prepared four copies in the Russian language, signed by the
plenipotentiary of Russia; on the part of China, four copies in the
Mantchoo language, signed by the Chinese plenipotentiary and his
adjunct. The respective plenipotentiaries will each keep a copy in the
Russian language, and a copy in the Mantchoo, for the purpose of putting
the treaty into execution, and to serve for constant reference. A
Russian copy and a Mantchoo copy shall be sent to the directing Senate
of Russia; and a copy in each language to the Chinese Tribunal for
Foreign Affairs, to be there sealed and preserved after the ratification
of the Treaty.

All the above articles of the present Treaty concluded by the respective
plenipotentiaries of Russia and China are hereby signed and sealed. The
twenty-fifth day of July, in the year 1851, in the 26th year of the
reign of His Imperial Majesty the Emperor and Autocrat of All the
Russias.

(Signed) Colonel in the corps of Engineers.

KOVALEVSKI.
I Chan,
Bovyantai.

TREATY BETWEEN ENGLAND AND CASHMERE.

TREATY BETWEEN THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT AND HIS HIGHNESS MAHARAJA RUNBEER
SINGH, G.C.S.I., MAHARAJA OF JUMMOO AND CASHMERE, HIS HEIRS AND
SUCCESSORS, EXECUTED ON THE ONE PART BY THOMAS DOUGLAS FORSYTH, C.B., IN
VIRTUE OF THE FULL POWERS VESTED IN HIM BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE RIGHT
HONOURABLE RICHARD SOUTHWELL BOURKE, EARL OF MAYO, VISCOUNT MAYO OF
MONYCROWER, BARON NAAS OF NAAS, K.P., G.M.S.I., P.C., &c., &c., &c.,
VICEROY AND GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF INDIA, AND ON THE OTHER PART BY HIS
HIGHNESS MAHARAJA RUNBEER SINGH AFORESAID, IN PERSON.

Whereas in the interest of the high contracting parties and their
respective subjects it is deemed desirable to afford greater facilities
than at present exist for the