[Boundary.] Boundary which touches the right bank, so that, together with the one already existing on the left bank, it should be sufficient to remove any doubt as to the separation of the Waters between the two States. (b.) In the Territories of the adjoining Communes of Malcesine, Brentonico, Belluno, and Avio, it was found to be convenient that the ancient termini should be renovated, the better to show the track of the Boundary. (c.) It was found expedient to do the same for the tract of the Boundary between the crest of the Sparavieri and that of the Tre Croci, as well as for the portion of Frontier next the Italian Commune of Pecolaro. (d.) In the Territory of the Commune of Bagnaria it was agreed to adopt some modification, so as to do away with the inconvenience of dividing a house by the Boundary line. (e.) Finally, it was held to be necessary, to place marks at those points of the principal roads passing from one State to the other, where the separation was not made clear by the existing marks. The Commission entrusted to two of its delegates, that is, to Major Baron Mazza for Italy, and to Major Korwin, Knight, for Austria, the task of proceeding to the execution of these last operations, and of such others as had become necessary after its resolutions on the mixed affairs mentioned above. The minutes of the aforesaid Commissioners, and the extract from them, of which a copy is annexed to the present Act, show the execution of the operations entrusted to them, and vouch for the new Marks set up in the separate localities. Those last documents, like the copies of the minutes of the Commission, mentioned above, with the accompanying drawings, are declared to be an integral part of the present Act, and are as follows : Copy of the Minutes No. 3 of the Commission. Extract from the Minutes No. 12 of the Commission, with a drawing annexed. Extract from the Minutes No. 15 of the Commission,-with a drawing annexed. Copy of the Minutes No. 16 of the Commission. Extract from the Minutes No. 19 of the Commission, with a drawing annexed. Copy of the Minutes No. 21 of the Commission. [Boundary.] Copy of the Report No. 5 of the Commissioners delegated for the operations. Extract from the Reports of the same Commissioners, with two drawings annexed. Ten sheets of the special Map of the Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom to a scale of, issued by the Geographical Institute of the Imperial and Royal Austrian-General Staff, are also annexed to the present Act, and declared to form an integral part of it; the general track of the Boundary is laid down thereon by a double line, blue and carmine. The Commission has moreover agreed upon the following definitive dispositions, which provide for specialities of the Frontier : ARTS. I to XIII. (See Table.) Ratifications.* Done and concluded at Venice, the 22nd of December, 1867. A. MAZZA. C. ROBILANT. A. DE CHARBONNEAU. J. KIRCHSBERG. KORWIN. * Ratifications exchanged at Florence, 17th March, 1868. [Danube Works Loan.] No. 410.-CONVENTION between Great Britain, Austria, France, Italy, Prussia, in the name of the North German Confederation, and Turkey, for the Guarantee of a Loan to complete the Works at the Sulina Mouth and Branches of the Danube. Signed at Galatz, 30th April, 1868. [This Convention will expire on the 24th April, 1883. See No. 439]. Preamble. Reference to Treaty of 30th March, 1856; and to Protocols of 28th March and 24th April, 1866. 1. Guarantee of Loan of £135,000. 2. Interest on and Redemption of Loan. 3. Power to pay Deficiency when Net Produce of Tolls is insufficient to pay Interest and Sinking Fund. 4. British Government to deposit at Bank of England sum necessary for payment of Interest and Sinking Fund. Other Powers to remit their Share. 5. Priority of Claim on produce of Tolls on the Danube. Rights of other Creditors. 6. Joint and Several Guarantee. 7. Ratifications. (Translation as laid before Parliament.*) Reference to Treaty of 30th March, 1856; and to Protocols of 28th March and 24th April, 1866. HER Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, His Majesty the Emperor of the French, His Majesty the King of Italy, His Majesty the King of Prussia, in the name of the North German Confederation, and His Majesty the Emperor of the Ottomans, Having recognised the necessity of putting the European Commission of the Danube in a position to contract a Loan on advantageous terms, and by this means to complete the Works of improvement undertaken, or to be undertaken, at the Mouth and in the Branch of the Sulina, without imposing too heavy burdens on the Vessels of all nations which frequent the Lower Danube; And taking into consideration Articles XVI to XVIII of the Treaty concluded at Paris on the 30th March, 1856 (No. 264), *For French version, see "State Papers," vol. lviii, p. 7. [Danube Works Loan.] which declare that a European Commission shall be charged to designate, and to cause to be executed, the Works necessary to put the Lower Danube before Isaktcha, its Mouths, and the parts of the Sea adjacent thereto, in the best possible state for Navigation; the said Treaty stipulating, moreover, that fixed Duties settled by the Commission may be levied in order to cover the expenses of such Works, as well as of the establishments intended to secure and to facilitate the Navigation at the Mouths of the Danube; * The Public Act relating to the Navigation of the said Mouths, signed at Galatz the 2nd of November, 1865, sanctioned in the sitting of the Conference of Paris, held on the 28th March, 1866 (No. 375); The decisions taken by the European Commission on the said 2nd November, 1865, on the 26th October, 1866, and on the 25th April, 1867, to the effect that new Works should be undertaken, in order to complete and render permanent the provisional improvements already effected at the Mouth and in the Branch of the Sulina, and that the cost of those Works should be covered by means of a Loan to be contracted by the Commission, and repayable out of the produce of the fixed Duties settled and levied by it; The Resolutions adopted by the Conference of Paris in its sittings of the 28th March, and 24th April, 1866 (No. 375), concerning the term within which the new Works are to be finished; The Declarations made by the Delegate of His Imperial Majesty the Sultan in the sitting of the European Commission of the 9th May, 1866, and in that of the 16th October following, from which it appears that with the intention of facilitating to the said Commission the conclusion of its Loan, the Sublime Porte renounces its claim to the repayment of the advances which it has itself made to cover the first expenses of the above-mentioned Works, until the moment when the new Loan to be contracted in order to finish the completion of them shall have been entirely paid off; The Memorandum, dated the 15th October, 1866, submitted to the Powers which signed the Treaty of Paris, setting forth that the negotiations opened with a view to the said Loan have remained fruitless for want of sufficient Guarantees to offer to * Altered by Regulation of 8th November, 1870. See Treaty of 13th March, 1871. [Danube Works Loan.] capitalists, and that it will be impossible for the Commission to find the resources necessary for the completion of its task, without an efficient support on the part of its high constituents; And the provisions of the above-mentioned public Act of the 2nd November, 1865,* especially those of Articles XIV, XV, and XVI, relating to the collection and to the employment of the Sulina Tolls, and that of Article XXI, which ensures the benefit of Neutrality to the Works and establishments of every kind created by the European Commission, particularly to the Navigation Chest at Sulina; Have named for their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say: Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, John Stokes, Esq., her Delegate in the said European Commission of the Danube, &c.; His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, &c., the Sieur Alfred Chevalier de Kremer, Delegate in the said European Commission, &c.; His Majesty the Emperor of the French, the Sieur Louis Marie Adolphus Baron d'Avril, his Delegate in the said European Commission, &c.; His Majesty the King of Italy, the Sieur Stephen Castelli, his Consul at Galatz, &c.; His Majesty the King of Prussia, in the name of the North German Confederation, the Sieur Henry Ernest Werner, Count of Keyserling-Rautenburg, his Delegate in the said European Commission, &c.; And His Majesty the Emperor of the Ottomans, Suleyman Behidj Pasha, Beylerbey of Roumelia, his Governor of the Province of Toultcha, his Delegate in the said European Commission of the Danube, &c. ; Who, after having exchanged their Full Powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon the following arrange ments: Guarantee of Loan of £135,000. ART. I. Their Majesties The Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, engages, subject to the assent of the competent representative bodies, to Guarantee the Interest and Sinking Fund of a Loan of Altered by Regulation of 8th November, 1870. See Treaty of 13th March, 1871. |