The Chinese Dignitary at Urga and his Assistants in the other localities
of autonomous Outer Mongolia may likewise personally or through their
delegates be present at the hearing of an action in the Consulates of
Russia wherein the defendant or the accused is a Russian subject and the
claimant or the complainant is a Chinese subject. The execution of the
judgment constitutes a duty of the Russian authorities.

Art. 17. Since a section of the Kiachta-Urga-Kalgan telegraph line lies
in the territory of autonomous Outer Mongolia, it is agreed that the
said section of the said telegraph line constitutes the complete
property of the Autonomous Government of Outer Mongolia. The details
respecting the establishment on the borders of that country and Inner
Mongolia of a station to be administered by Chinese and Mongolian
employes for the transmission of telegrams, as well as the questions of
the tariff for telegrams transmitted and of the apportionment of the
receipts, etc., are to be examined and settled by a special commission
of technical delegates of China, Russia and Autonomous Outer Mongolia.

Art. 18. The Chinese postal institutions at Urga and Mongolian Kiachta
remain in force on the old basis.

Art. 19. The Autonomous Government of Outer Mongolia will place at the
disposal of the Chinese Dignitary at Urga and of his assistants at
Ouliassoutai, Kobdo and Mongolian-Kiachta as well as of their staff the
necessary houses, which are to constitute the complete property of the
Government of the Republic of China. Similarly, necessary grounds in the
vicinity of the residences of the said staff are to be granted for their
escorts.

Art. 20. The Chinese Dignitary at Urga and his assistants in the other
localities of autonomous Outer Mongolia and also their staff are to
enjoy the right to use the courier stations of the autonomous Mongolian
Government conformably to the stipulations of Article XI of the
Russo-Mongolian Protocol of 21st October, 1912.

Art. 21. The stipulations of the Sino-Russian declaration and the Notes
exchanged between China and Russia of the 5th day of the 11th month of
the 2nd year of the Republic of China, 23rd October, 1913, as well as
those of the Russo-Mongolian Commercial Protocol of the 21st October,
1912, remain in full force.

Art. 22. The present Agreement, drawn up in triplicate in Chinese,
Russian, Mongolian and French languages, comes into force from the day
of its signature. Of the four