No. 1096.
Mr. King
to Mr. Bayard.
Legation of
the United States,
Constantinople, October 5, 1888.
(Received October 22.)
No. 124.]
Sir: I inclose for your consideration a copy of a
note verbale, received from the Sublime Porte,
concerning the restoration of real property on the termination of the
lease.
The note will be considered by representatives of the different embassies and
legations here to determine whether it shall be accepted or not. I will
report to you the action taken in the matter. I shall likewise wait for such
action before replying to the Porte.
I have, etc.,
Pendleton King,
Chargé d’Affaires ad interim.
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[Inclosure in No. 124.—Note
verbale.—Translation.]
The ministry of foreign
affairs to the legation of the United
States.
Sublime
Porte, Ministry of Foreign
Affairs,
August 2,
1888.
The ministry of justice complains that the consulates of foreign missions
oppose the execution against their fellow-citizens of the appendix to
Article II of the regulation on the contracts of lease, under pretext
that it had not been officially communicated to them.
This refusal is the less justified as this provision is not contrary to
the existing treaty stipulations. In fact, in virtue of this appendix,
every real property which, at the expiration of the term of the contract
duly legalized by a notary, is not delivered to its proprietor, is on
the request of this latter, evacuated ex officio,
without depriving, however, the proprietor or the tenant of the right of
bringing their claim before the competent tribunal.
This procedure, destined to safeguard the interest of the proprietors, is
as just as it is legal, and nothing opposes its being also applied to
foreign subjects who are also to benefit from it as proprietors.
The ministry of foreign affairs is persuaded that the legation of the
United States will recognize the justice of the preceding considerations
and give the necessary orders so that no difficulty may arise to the
execution of the appendix in question.
