"مسألة الشرق الأوسط أو بعض المشكلات السياسية المتعلقة بدفاع الهند" [و‎‎٢‎٦‎١] (٦١٦/٥٢٦)

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accused, the Minister, Charge d'Affaires, or Consul shall
make no difficulty whatever in complying with it.
Article 7.— All lawsuits and litigations between Russian
suhiects shall be submitted exclusively to the investigation
and decision of the Mission or of the Consuls of Russia in
conformity with the laws and customs of the Russian Empire.
So also shall disputes and lawsuits arising between Russian
subjects and those of another Power, in case the two parties
shall consent to such a course. Whenever any disputes or
lawsuits shall arise between Russian and Persian subjects,
the said lawsuits or disputes shall be brought before the
Hakim or Governor, and shall not be investigated and
decided except in the presence of the Dragoman of the
Mission or of the Consulate. Once judiciously disposed of
such suits shall not be allowed to be instituted a second
time. If, however, circumstances should be of such a
nature as to render a second trial necessary, it shall not
take place without previous intimation being given to tie
Minister, or the Charg^ d'Affaires, or the Consul of Russia ;
and in that case the action shall be brought and decided on y
in the Dufter, that is to say, in the Supreme Court of the
Shah at Tabriz or at Teheran, likewise in the presence of a
Dragoman of the Mission or of the Russian Consulate.
Article 8.— In case of murder or any other crime com
mitted among Russian subjects, the investigation and
decision of the case shall be within the exclusive province of
the Minister or Charg^ d'Affaires, or Consul of Russia, in
virtue of the jurisdiction delegated to them over their own
countrymen. If a Russian subject should happen to be
implicated with individuals of another nation in a cnmina
suit, he shall not be prosecuted nor molested in any way
without proofs of his participation in the crime; and even in
that case, as in the one in which a Russian subject shou e
charged with direct culpability, the tribunals of the country
shall not be competent to proceed with the trial and judgmen
of the crime except in the presence of a delegate of the
Mission or of the Russian Consulate, and if there should be
none on the spot in which the crime has been committed, the
local authorities shall take steps to send the delinquent to a
place where there is a Consul or a constituted Russian . gen.
The evidence both for and against the accused shall be faith-
fully taken by the Hakim and by the Judge of the place, and