Military Convention between France and Switzerland. Entrance of French Army into Switzerland. (Verrières.) 1907 436..... 8th Feb. Regulations between Austria, Russia, and Roumania. 440.... 13th Mar. Convention between Russia and Turkey. Black Sea. 441. Jan.-Mar. Protocols between Great Britain, &c., and Turkey. .... Law. Constitution of the German Empire. (Berlin.).. Constitution of the German Empire. (Berlin.)....... 8th June Firman of the Sultan of Turkey. Succession, &c., in Egypt. * See Appendix. [Union of Ionian Islands to Greece.] No. 357.-TREATY between Great Britain, France, Russia, and Greece, respecting the Union of the Ionian Islands to the Kingdom of Greece. Signed at London, 29th March, 1864.* Preamble. Reference to Treaty of 5th November, 1815. 1. Renunciation of Great Britain to Protectorate over the Ionian Islands. Union of Ionian Islands to Greece. 2. Perpetual Neutrality of Ionian Islands. Greece to maintain the Neutrality. 3. Treaties, &c., of Commerce and Navigation between Great Britain and Foreign Powers relative to Ionian Islands to remain in force until conclusion of New Treaty. Terms within which New Commercial Treaties are to be concluded. 4. Freedom of Worship and Religious Toleration. 5. Provision of Ionian Islands towards the Civil List of the King of the Hellenes. 6. Relinquishment by Protecting Powers of portion of the Annual Sums to be paid to them by Greece. Amounts relinquished to form Annual Dotation of King of Greece. 7. Contracts between Ionian Islands and Foreign Powers to be maintained by King of the Hellenes. 8. Pensions, &c., to British and Ionian Subjects to be paid by Greece. Special Convention to regulate amounts. 9. Withdrawal of British Forces from the Ionian Islands. 10. Ratifications. (Translation as laid before Parliament.) Reference to Treaty of 5th November, 1815. In the name of the Most Holy and Indivisible Trinity. HER Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland made known to the Legislative Assembly of the United States of the Ionian Islands that, with a view to the eventual union of those Islands to the Kingdom of Greece, she was prepared, if the Ionian Parliament should express a wish to that effect, to abandon the Protectorate of those Islands, confided to Her Majesty by the Treaty concluded at Paris on the 5th November, 1815 (No. 39), between the Courts of Great Britain, Austria, Prussia, and Russia. Such wish having been expressed by a vote of the said Legislative Assembly passed unanimously on the 4th October, 1863 (No. 354), Her Britannic Majesty consented by Article I of the Treaty concluded on the 14th November, * The Sultan acceded to this Treaty on the 8th April, 1865. [Union of Ionian Islands to Greece.] 1863 (No. 355), between Her Majesty, the Emperor of Austria, the Emperor of the French, the King of Prussia, and the Emperor of All the Russias, to renounce the said Protectorate under certain conditions specified in that Treaty, and since defined by subsequent Protocols (No. 359). On their part, their Majesties the Emperor of Austria, the Emperor of the French, the King of Prussia, and the Emperor of All the Russias, consented by the same Article, and under the same conditions, to accept such Renunciation, and to recognise, in conjunction with Her Britannic Majesty, the Union of those Islands to the Kingdom of Greece. In virtue of Article V of the Treaty signed at London on the 13th July, 1863 (No. 347), it was moreover agreed by common consent between Her Britannic Majesty and their Majesties the Emperor of the French and the Emperor of All the Russias, that the Ionian Islands, when their Union to the Kingdom of Greece should have been effected, as contemplated by Article IV of the same Treaty, should be comprised in the Guarantee stipulated in favour of Greece by the Courts of Great Britain, France, and Russia, in virtue of the Convention signed at London on the 7th May, 1832 (No. 159). In consequence, and in accordance with the stipulations of the Treaty of the 13th July, 1863 (No. 347), and with the terms of Article VI of the Treaty of the 14th November, 1863 (No. 355), whereby the Courts of Great Britain, France, and Russia, in their character of Guaranteeing Powers of the Kingdom of Greece, reserved to themselves to conclude a Treaty with the Hellenic Government as to the arrangements which might become necessary in consequence of the Union of the Ionian Islands to Greece, their said Majesties have resolved to proceed to negotiate with His Majesty the King of the Hellenes a Treaty for the purpose of carrying into execution the stipulations above mentioned. His Majesty the King of the Hellenes having given his assent to the conclusion of such Treaty, their said Majesties have named as their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say: Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Right Honourable John Earl Russell, Viscount Amberley of Amberley and Ardsalla, a Peer of the United Kingdom, a Member of Her Britannic Majesty's Privy Council, her Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; His Majesty the Emperor of the French, the Sieur Godefroy [Union of Ionian Islands to Greece.] Bernard Henry Alphonse, Prince de la Tour d'Auvergne Lauraguais, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Her Britannic Majesty, &c. ; His Majesty the Emperor of All the Russias, the Sieur Philip Baron de Brunnow, his Actual Privy Councillor, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Her Britannic Majesty, &c.; And His Majesty the King of the Hellenes, the Sieur Charilaüs S. Tricoupi, a Representative in the National Assembly of the Hellenes; Who, after having exchanged their Full Powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon and signed the following Articles: Renunciation of Great Britain to Protectorate over the Ionian Islands. ART. I. Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, desiring to realise the wish expressed by the Legislative Assembly of the United States of the Ionian Islands, that those Islands should be united to Greece, has consented, on the conditions hereinafter specified, to renounce the Protectorate over the Islands of Corfu, Cephalonia, Zante, Santa Maura, Ithaca, Cerigo, and Paxo, with their Dependencies, which, in virtue of the Treaty signed at Paris on the 5th November, 1815 (No. 39), by the Plenipotentiaries of Great Britain, Austria, Prussia, and Russia, were constituted a single Free and Independent State, under the denomination of "the United States of the Ionian Islands," placed under the immediate and exclusive Protection of His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, his heirs and successors. Union of Ionian Islands to Greece. In consequence, Her Britannic Majesty, His Majesty the Emperor of the French, and His Majesty the Emperor of All the Russias, in their character of signing parties to the Convention of the 7th May, 1832 (No. 159), recognise such Union, and declare that Greece, within the Limits determined by the arrangement concluded at Constantinople between the Courts of Great Britain, France, and Russia, and the Ottoman Porte, on the 21st July, 1832 (No. 161), including the Ionian Islands, shall from a Monarchical, Independent, and Constitutional State, under |