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 In preparing such List there shall be withdrawn from the List of the preceding year the names of such persons as shall have died, and also the names of such persons as shall have accepted offices from the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.

(L.S.) RUSSELL.

(L.S.) CH. TRICOUPI.

*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.*

and Military Forces not insisted on. Neutrality to
apply only to Islands of Corfu and Paro, and their De-
pendencies
London, 25th January, 1864

....

No. 2. Renewal of Treaties with Foreign Powers, relating to Ionian

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*See also Protocols of 1863 and 1864. Table of Contents.

[Montenegro.]

No. 360.-PROTOCOL between Turkey and Montenegro, for the Regulation of Private Interests on the Frontier of Montenegro. Cettigné, 3rd May, 1864.*

5. Actual Possession of Property. Sale of Properties not exchanged. Reimbursement of purchased Properties.

6. Payments on Sale of Properties.

7. Protocols of Exchange or Sale to be signed by the Commissioners.

8. Proprietors to Sign Acts of Renunciation.

[9. Acts of Renunciation to be signed in the Native Language.

10. Mountain Pasturages, &c., to be mutually abandoned.

11. Exceptions.

12. Churches on the Frontier.

13. Immediate Possession of Properties by new Proprietors.

14. Proprietors not attending Commission to be represented by Attorney. 15. Acts of Renunciation to be given by Attorney.

16. New Landmarks to be Erected.

17. Commission to explain Provisions of Protocol to Inhabitants.

(Translation.)

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL Hafiz Bey, Ottoman Commissioner, and the Voivode and Senator Giuro Matanovieh, Commissioner for Montenegro, assembled in a Preparatory Conference, have, by common consent, agreed upon the following dispositions, as the basis of their operations, relative to the Regulation of Private Interests on the Frontier described by the Mixed Commission in 1859.

Labours of Turco-Montenegrin Commission.

ART. I. The Turco-Montenegrin Commission shall immediately commence its labours, taking Presika as the point of departure.

Italian Language to be used.

ART. II. The Procès-verbaux of the said Commission shall be written in the Italian language.

See also Protocols of 28th November, 1858, and 17th April, 1860; Turkish Conditions of 31st August, 1862; and Procès-Verbal of 26th October, 1866.

[Montenegro.]

Exchange of Private Properties.

ART. III. Private Properties within and without the Frontier shall be exchanged between the Proprietors, according to the decision of the Commission, which shall only decide after an estimate has been made by Turkish and Montenegrin Experts of equal number; the Commission shall settle the difference by its decision.

Sale of Properties.

ART. IV. The Properties not exchanged shall be sold.

Actual Possession of Property.

ART. V. Every Property, of whatever nature it may be, possessed by a person at the time of the labours of the Mixed Commission in 1858 and 1859 (No. 288),* shall be recognised by the actual Turco-Montenegrin Commission as the legitimate Property of the said person.

Sale of Properties not exchanged.

The said Properties shall naturally be ceded by means of Exchange. When the Exchange shall not be possible, they shall be sold, and the buyer shall pay the price of the Property, according to the estimate in the manner specified in Article VI.

Reimbursement of Purchased Properties.

As to the Properties which shall have changed masters by means of purchase after that period, those Properties shall be restored in exchange for the price of purchase, which shall be reimbursed to the last Proprietor.

Payments on Sale of Properties.

ART. VI. To facilitate these transactions, Turkey and Montenegro take upon themselves the Indemnity to be paid to the Proprietors, each in so far as concerns his Natives. At the end of the operations, the Authorities shall remain indebted one towards the other in the sums paid.

Protocols of Exchange or Sale to be signed by the Commissioners.

ART. VII. For each Exchange or Sale, a Protocol shall be signed in Duplicate by the two Commissioners, and after the signature, the exchange of that Act shall be made between them.

* Major Francis Edward Cox, R.E., was the British Member of the Montenegrin Boundary Commission from March to July, 1859.

[Montenegro.]

Proprietors to sign Acts of Renunciation.

ART. VIII. To avoid all disagreement in future, the Turkish and Montenegrin Proprietors shall sign an Act of Renunciation. to their Rights of Possession, and after the counter-signature of the Commissioners, those Acts shall be reciprocally exchanged.

Acts of Renunciation to be signed in the Native Language. ART. IX. The Act of Renunciation shall be written in the Native Language of the Proprietor, the counter-signature of the Commissioners shall be in the Italian Language, and in the said Act mention shall be made of the manner in which the Proprietor abandons his Rights of Possession.

Mountain Pasturages, &c., to be mutually abandoned.

ART. X. Mountain Pasturages, Forests, Waters, being Communal Properties, shall be reciprocally abandoned without sale or exchange.

Exceptions.

ART. XI. Exception shall be made to the preceding Article for Pasturages, Forests, Waters, recorded in the observations of the Specification Sheet of the Mixed Commission of 1859, and which have been considered necessary by the Commissioners for the common use of the Turkish and Montenegrin Inhabitants.

Churches on the Frontier.

ART. XII. Certain Churches on the Frontier, recorded in the Specification Sheet of the Mixed Commission of 1859, shall be used in common on both sides.

Immediate Possession of Properties by new Proprietors.

ART. XIII. Properties exchanged or sold shall be immediately taken possession of by their new Proprietors. The Harvest of this year shall be reaped by those who have sown it.

Proprietors not attending Commission to be represented by Attorney.

ART. XIV. Proprietors who shall not be able to attend before the Commissioners shall be represented by some person entrusted with his Power of Attorney. Such delegation of power shall be attested by two witnesses.