[United Principalities. Moldavia and Wallachia.] Prince of the United Principalities are conferred upon you as a Hereditary Title for you and your heirs in a direct line, with the reservation, in case of a vacancy, that that Rank shall be conferred upon the eldest of your heirs by an Imperial Firman. Fulfilment of Engagements. You will therefore watch that no Act shall be allowed contrary to the preceding conditions and to the fundamental dispositions of the Treaties and Conventions concluded with friendly and Allied Powers of my Empire, referring to the United Principalities, and you will devote your attention in perfecting and ensuring the good administration of the United Principalities, and in developing the well-being and prosperity of their inhabitants in conformity with my Imperial wish. Given at Constantinople, the 14th Djemazi-ul-Akhir, 1283 (23rd October, 1866). [Conferences were held in Paris upon the Subject of the United Principalities, from March to June, 1866. (See page 1650.) On the 17th May it was formally announced to the Conference that the Rouman People had, by means of a Plebiscite, elected Prince Charles of Hohenzollern-Hechingen as Sovereign of the United Principalities under the Title of Charles I. On the 10th May, 1866, Prince Charles, having accepted the offer of the Assembly, entered Wallachian Territory, and assumed the Government of the Principalities. The Porte at first entered a formal Protest against these Acts, but eventually (11th July, 1866,) the Sultan agreed to recognize the Election of the Prince, and on the 23rd October following a Firman of Investiture was issued to His Highness by the Sultan. These Arrangements were concurred in by the Treaty Powers, on the 29th January, 1867.] [Montenegro.] No. 400.-PROTOCOL between Turkey and Montenegro, relative to the Demarcation of the Frontiers of Montenegro. Constantinople, 26th October, 1866. (Translation.) A MEETING having been held at the yali of His Highness Aali Pasha, Minister for Foreign Affairs, at Bebek, between Safvet Pasha, President of the Dari Choura, and Server Effendi, Under Secretary of State at the Ministry of Commerce, duly authorised to that effect by the Sublime Porte, on the one part, and the Senators Ilio Plamenatz and Captain Peiovitch, appointed for the same purpose by His Highness the Prince of Montenegro, of the other part, the Protocol signed at Cettigne on the 3rd May, 1864 (No. 360), between Hafiz Bey, Commissioner of the Sublime Porte, and M. Giuro Matanovich, Commissioner of Montenegro, and containing 18 Articles, was taken into consideration. The Commission, after having discussed each of the Articles of the said Protocol, confirms it in all its details, and decides that the present Protocol shall be annexed thereto, to have the same force and effect as if it formed part thereof. Proceeding to the execution of the Protocol of the 3rd May, 1864 (No. 360), this Commission agrees that a mixed Commission shall proceed in the month of April next, at the latest, to the exchange and the settlement of the Indemnities of Private Properties, and the bases already decided upon. That Commission shall in the same manner proceed in execution of Articles XI and XII of the same Protocol. Proceeding to the examination of the Map and of the Specification drawn up by the International Commission on the 8th November, 1858 (No. 288), the Commission, after having referred them to the respective Governments, entirely admit the tracing of the Line of Demarcation of the Frontiers as shown in red on the above-mentioned Map, and which passes from Vissotchitsa (No. 67) by Srebrena-Glavitsa (No. 68) to Banova-Gomila (No. 69). It is nevertheless agreed, and the Commissioners of His Highness the Prince of Montenegro engage that no building or habitation of any kind whatever shall be erected on the SrebrenaGlavitza. [Montenegro.] It is agreed that the Turkish Koulé of Ynotchitza shall be immediately demolished. As far as regards Velje and Malo-Brdo, the space between Podgoritza and Sponge, the Commission agrees that the Montenegrins shall continue freely to enjoy all their Rights of Possession on those mountains, and that they will have to pay into the hands of the Imperial Authorities at Scutari of Albania the Tithes and the Dues to which their lands and crops are liable. Done in Duplicate at Constantinople, 26th October, 1866. SAFVET. SERVER. I. PLAMENATZ. [Navigation of the River Pruth.] No. 401.-ACT between Austria, Russia, and the United Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia, relative to the Navigation of the Pruth. Signed at Bucharest, 15th December, 1866.* 3rd 2. Tax to be levied for the Improvement of the Pruth, and for the Maintenance of its Navigability. 3. Produce and Merchandise to be free of Passage or Transit Dues. 4. Customs Regulations. 5. Facilities to be given to Commerce and Navigation. 6. Establishment of Custom-House Stations. 7. Appointment of a Permanent Mixed Commission. 8. Appointment of an Inspector of Works. 9. Inspector to act under the Permanent Commission. 10. Maintenance of the Inspector. 11. General Project for the Navigation of the Pruth to be approved by the 3 Governments. 12. Power to Commissioners to introduce Modifications in the Works. 13. Works to belong exclusively to the use of the Navigation of the Pruth. 14. Assistance to be afforded to the Mixed Commission. 15. Towing Paths. 16. Erection of Mills, &c., forbidden. 17. Permission to be obtained for the erection of Bridges, &c. 18. Erection of Works by Riverain Suburban and Rural Communes. Amount of Taxes to be levied. 19. Communication between either Bank by means of Bridges and Ferries. 20. Tariff of Navigation Taxes. 21. Division of the Produce of the Toll. 22. Reduction of Taxes on Navigation. 23. Special Regulations for Levying Tolls, and the Administration of Navigation Funds. 24. Funds levied to be under Control of the Inspector. 25. Detailed Accounts and Statements to be made Annually. 26. Navigation and Police Regulation. 27. The Regulation to apply to Civil Lists. 28. Assistance to be afforded to the Inspector, &c., by the 3 Governments. 29. Establishment of Quarantine Lines. 30. Vessels descending the Pruth to be free from Sanitary Control. 31. Duties to be Levied at Mouth of the Pruth. 32. Military Assistance to Commissioners, &c. Assistance of Consular Authority. Sittings of Mixed Commission. (Translation.†) THE Government of His Majesty the Emperor of All the See also Regulations of 8th February, 1871. + For French version, see "State Papers," vol. lviii, p. 631. [Navigation of the River Pruth.] Russias, the Government of His Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty, and the Government of His Serene Highness the Reigning Prince of the United Principalities, in their desire to regulate with one accord, in the character of Co-Riverain States, the Navigation of the Pruth, have agreed to that effect to the following Stipulations : Free Navigation of the Pruth. ART. I. The Navigation through the whole extent of the Pruth, in so far as it flows through or separates the States of the High Contracting Parties shall be entirely Free, and shall not, in matters of Commerce, be interdicted to any Flag. Vessels and their crews shall, nevertheless, be obliged to conform strictly to the Navigation Regulations to be agreed upon,* as well as to the special dispositions contained in the Articles of the present Act. Tax to be levied for the Improvement of the Pruth, and for the Maintenance of its Navigability. ART. II. With the exclusive view of covering the expenses of Works for the improvement of the River and those for the Maintenance of its Navigability, a fair Tax shall be imposed on the Navigation and levied at the Mouth of the Pruth in the Danube. Besides this only Tax, no other Duty, whatever may be its name or origin, shall be levied on the Navigation, except in the cases mentioned in Article XVIII. Produce and Merchandise to be Free of Passage or Transit Dues. ART. III. Produce and Merchandise carried on the Pruth shall be entirely free from Passage or Transit Dues. Customs Regulations. ART. IV. The Customs Lines shall everywhere follow the Banks of the River without ever crossing it. All Vessels, Rafts, &c., therefore, so long as they are navigating or at anchor in the bed of the River, shall be entirely free from any action of the Customs; they shall, on the contrary, be subject to the Regulations in force in each of the Riverain States, for external Commerce, so soon as they shall have reached either Bank. Facilities to be given to Commerce and Navigation. ART. V. In order to favour as much as possible the development of Commerce and Navigation, there shall be introduced into * See Regulations, 8th February, 1871. |