[British Claims, &c. Ionian Islands.] a-year, as by the Schedule A hereto annexed, His Majesty the King of the Hellenes agrees that, after provision shall have been made for the sum of £10,000 sterling a-year, mentioned in Article V of the Treaty signed on this day (No. 357) between their Majesties the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Emperor of the French, and the Emperor of All the Russias on the one part, and His Majesty the King of the Hellenes on the other part, the said amount shall form the next charge upon the Customs revenue of Corfu and of the other Ionian Islands, and shall be paid by half-yearly instalments to Her Britannic Majesty's Consul at Corfu, for the purpose of being paid in detail to the several persons entitled to the said Pensions. Compensation Allowances to be paid by Greece. And whereas it has become necessary to grant Compensation Allowances to certain other persons now in the service of the Ionian Government, who will lose their respective employments in consequence of the Union of the Ionian Islands with Greece; and whereas such Allowances amount to £3,272 12s. sterling a-year, as by the Schedule B hereto annexed; His Majesty the King of the Hellenes agrees that the said amount shall form a charge upon the revenues of the Kingdom of Greece, and shall be paid by half-yearly instalments to Her Britannic Majesty's Minister at Athens, for the purpose of being paid in detail to the several persons entitled to the said Compensation Allowances. Date of Payment of Pensions and Allowances. These several Pensions and Allowances shall become chargeable to and payable by the Government of Greece from and after the cessation of British authority in the Ionian Islands; and accordingly the first payments shall be made to Her Britannic Majesty's Consul at Corfu and to Her Britannic Majesty's Minister at Athens 10 days before the 31st March, 30th June, 30th September, or 31st December, which may next follow the day of the cessation of British authority in the Ionian Islands; and afterwards the payments shall be made 10 days before the expiration of every subsequent half-year. Pensions to Ionian Subjects to be paid by Greece. And whereas certain Ionian subjects are in the enjoyment of Pensions granted to them for services under the Ionian Government, His Majesty the King of the IIellenes undertakes that [British Claims, &c. Ionian Islands.] their rights to such Pensions shall be respected, and that they shall duly continue to receive the same. The British Minister at Athens, after receiving a list of such Pensions from the Lord High Commissioner of Her Britannic Majesty, shall deliver the same to the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Greece, and no Ionian subject shall have a claim upon His Hellenic Majesty on account of being at present in the enjoyment of any Pension, unless the same be included in such list. SCHEDULE A. Persons entitled to Pensions from the revenues of the Ionian Islands: [British Claims, &c. Ionian Islands.] SCHEDULE B. Persons whose Allowances for loss of office are to be payable by the Greek Government to Her Britannic Majesty's Minister at Athens: Besides the foregoing annual allowances, there shall be paid to the persons mentioned below, as compensation for the abolition of their offices, the amount of their salaries for one year, that is to say: 876884A Yearly List to be made of Persons entitled to Pensions and Com pensations. ART. II. In the month of January of every year the Minister of Her Britannic Majesty at Athens shall deliver to the Minister for Foreign Affairs of His Majesty the King of the Hellenes, a List of the persons entitled to Pensions and Compensations in virtue of the preceding Article. In preparing such List there shall be withdrawn from the List of the preceding year the names of such persons as shall have died, and also the names of such persons as shall have accepted offices from the Crown of Great Britain to the full amount of the Pension or Compensation to which they are entitled; and deduction shall moreover be made from the amount of Pension or Compensation to be paid to other persons left on the List, of the amount of salary due to them in respect of any offices to which they may have been appointed, which yield an income less than the full amount of the allowances due to them. Ratifications. ART. III. The present Convention shall be ratified, and the Ratifications shall be exchanged at London at the same time as the Ratifications of the Treaty of this day. In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have affixed thereto the Seals of their Arms. Done at London, the 29th day of March, in the year of Our Lord, 1864. * Ratifications exchanged at London, 25th April, 1864. [Greece and Ionian Islands.] No. 359.-PROTOCOLS OF CONFERENCES between Great Britain, Austria, France, Prussia, and Russia, relative to the Union of the Ionian Islands to Greece, and the Succession to the Greek Throne. London, January to March, 1864.* TABLE. Protocol. No. 1. Union of Ionian Islands to Greece. "State Papers," vol. liv. Page Limitation of Naval and Military Forces not insisted on. Neutrality to No. 2. Renewal of Treaties with Foreign Powers, relating to Ionian Islands...... No. 3. Succession to Throne of Greece 31 35 * See also Protocols of 1863 and 1864. 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