'Treaty of Peace with Turkey. Signed at Sévres, August 10, 1920. [With Maps.]' [‎60r] (99/112)

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Authorisation to excavate shall only be granted to persons who show sufficient
guarantees of archeological experience. The Turkish Government shall not, in granting
these authorisations, act in such a way as to eliminate scholars of any nation without
good grounds.
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The proceeds of excavations may be divided between the excavator and the
competent Turkish Department in a proportion fixed by that Department. If division
seems impossible for scientific reasons, the excavator shall receive a fair indemnity in lieu
of a part of the find.
Article 422.
All objects of religious, archaeological, historical or artistic interest which have been
removed since August 1, 1914, from any of the territories detached from Turkey will
within twelve months from the coming into force of the present Treaty be restored by
the Turkish Government to the Government of the territory from which such objects
were removed.
If any such objects have passed into private ownership, the Turkish Government
will take the necessary steps by expropriation or otherwise to enable it to fulfil .its
obligations under this Article.
Lists of the objects to be restored under this Article will be furnished to the Turkish
Government bv the Governments concerned within six months from the coming into
force of the present Treaty.
Article 423.
The Turkish Government undertakes to preserve the books, documents and manu
scripts from the Library of the Russian Archaeological Institute at Constantinople which
are now in its possession, and to deliver them to such authority as the Allied Powers, in
order to safeguard the rights of Russia, reserve the right to designate. Pending such
delivery the Turkish Government must allow" all persons duly authorised by any
of the Allied Powers to have free access to the said books, documents and manuscripts.
Article 424.
On the coming into force of the present Treaty, Turkey will hand over without
delav to the Governments concerned archives, registers, plans, title-deeds and documents
of every kind belonging to the civil, military, financial, judicial or other forms of
administration in the transferred territories. If any one of these documents, archives,
registers,* title-deeds or plans is missing, it shall be restored by Turkey upon the demand
of the Government concerned.
In case the archives, registers, plans, title-deeds or documents referred to in the
preceding paragraph, exclusive of those of a military character, concern equally the
administrations in Turkey, and cannot therefore be handed over without inconvenience to
such administrations, Turkey undertakes, subject to reciprocity, to give access thereto to
the Governments concerned.
The Turkish Government undertakes in particular to restore to the Greek Govern
ment the local land registers or any other public registers relating to landed property in
the districts of the former Turkish Empire transferred to Greece since 1912, which the
Turkish authorities removed or may have removed at the time of the evacuation.
In cases where the restitution of one or more of such registers is impossible owing
to their disappearance or for any other reason, and whenever necessary for purposes ot
verification of titles produced to"the Greek authorities, the Greek Government shall be
entitled to take any necessary copies of the entries in the Central Land Registry at
Constantinople.
Article 425.
The Turkish Government undertakes, subject to reciprocity, to afford to the
Governments exercising authority over territory detached from lurkey, or ol which the
existing status is recognised by Turkey under the present Freaty, access tn an\ archixes
and documents of every description relating to the administration ot W akfs in such
territory, or to particular Wakfs, wherever situated, in which persons or institutions
established in such territory are interested.
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