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[Peace.]

The Royal Saxon Government, animated with the lively desire of carrying into effect the perfect harmony which exists between it and the Royal Prussian Government, in regard to the political course to be henceforward followed in common, is ready,

a. To transfer at once and until the time when the question of the International Representation of the North German Confederation shall be settled in a definitive manner,* its own International Representation in regard to those Courts and Governments with which it does not at present maintain Diplomatic Agents to the Prussian Missions, and

b. To have the same relations introduced with those Courts and Governments to which there are Saxon Missions at present, in all cases of temporary vacancy, and for as long as they last;

c. Also to provide the Royal Saxon Representatives with corresponding instructions to this effect, so that in the spirit of the alliance concluded with Prussia, Saxony now at once firmly adheres to the Prussian policy in regard to International relations.

The Royal Prussian Plenipotentiary declares on his part, that his Government is ready to undertake the Representation in question, and thereby to take care of the interests both of the Royal Saxon Government and of Saxon subjects, everywhere in the same manner as its own.

Finally, the Plenipotentiaries on both sides were agreed that the foregoing ad interim arrangements should in no way affect the right of His Majesty the King of Saxony to send Extraordinary Plenipotentiaries in particular cases.

The foregoing Protocol is to be considered as ratified with the Ratification of the Treaty of Peace.

Berlin, 21st October, 1866.

(L.S.) SAVIGNY.

(L.S.) HOHENTHAL.

(L.S.) FRIESEN.

[On the 1st December, 1866, an Ordinance was issued by the King of Prussia respecting the Publication of Laws in the Provinces incorporated with the Prussian Monarchy; and on the 10th December following another Ordinance was issued invalidating certain Securities removed from the Hanoverian Treasury.]

* See Constitution of 14th June, 1867.

[United Principalities. Moldavia and Wallachia.]

No. 399.-FIRMAN of Investiture of Prince Charles of Hohenzollern as Prince of the United Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia. Constantinople, 23rd October, 1866.*

TABLE.

1. Recognition of Rights of Turkey to Sovereignty over the United Principalities.

2. Armed Force not to exceed 30,000 Men.

3. Coinage.

4. Treaties and Conventions with Foreign Powers to be binding on United Principalities. Principalities not to conclude Treaties or Conventions with Foreign Powers. Principalities to be consulted on Treaties and Conventions bearing upon their Laws and Commerce. Above Restrictions not to bear upon Arrangements of an Unofficial or non-Political Character.

5. Not to create any Order of Decoration.

6. Rights of Sovereignty.

7. Tribute.

8. Disturbers of the Peace not to be allowed in the United Principalities. 9. Security to Turkish Subjects trading in the Principalities. Hereditary Title of Prince of the United Principalities. Fulfilment of Engagements.

(Translation.†)

To Prince Charles of Hohenzollern, who has been invested with the dignity of Prince of the United Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia.

Having nothing more at heart than putting an end to the disturbances which have for some time past taken place in the United Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia, an important part of my Empire, and to see their prosperity developed, as well as the happiness and well-being of their inhabitants, and that object being only attainable by the establishment of solid and lasting order;

Recognising, on the other hand, the wisdom, the high intelligence, and the capabilities which distinguish you, I confer on you the Rank and Prerogatives of Prince of the United Principalities on the following conditions, which have been specified in the Vizerial Letter addressed to you on the 19th October of the pre

*See Note, page 1786.

† For French version, see "State Papers," vol. lvii, p. 600.

sent

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year, which you accepted by your answer dated on the 20th of the same month, and by which

Recognition of Rights of Turkey to Sovereignty over the United Principalities,

1. You engage, in your own name and in the name of your successors, to respect in their Integrity my Rights of Sovereignty over the United Principalities, which form an Integral Part of my Empire within the limits fixed by the stipulations of ancient Conventions* and by the Treaty of Paris of 1856 (No. 264).

Armed Force not to exceed 30,000 Men.

2. Not to exceed, under any pretext whatever, without previous understanding with my Government, the number of 30,000 men, to which the Armed Force of every description of the United Principalities may be raised.

Coinage.

3. Authority having been granted on our part to the United Principalities to have a special Coin bearing a mark of our Government, which shall be hereafter decided between my Sublime Porte and you, to consider that authority as of none effect so long as that decision has not been come to.

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Treaties and Conventions with Foreign Powers to be binding on United Principalities. Principalities not to conclude Treaties or Conventions with Foreign Powers. Principalities to be consulted on Treaties and Conventions bearing upon their Laws and Commerce.

4. To consider as binding on the Principalities all Treaties. and Conventions existing between my Sublime Porte and other Powers, in so far as they do not infringe on the Rights of the United Principalities established and recognised by the Acts which concern them; also to maintain and respect the principle that no Treaties or Conventions can be directly concluded by the United Principalities with Foreign Powers. My Imperial Government will nevertheless not fail in future to consult the United Principalities on the stipulations of any Treaty or Convention which might bear upon their Laws and Commercial Regulations.

*See note, page 1786.

[United Principalities. Moldavia and Wallachia.]

Above Restrictions not to bear upon Arrangements of an Unofficial or Non-Political Character.

Arrangements of local interest between two neighbouring Administrations, and not having the form of an Official Treaty, or of a political character, shall continue to remain excluded from the above restrictions.

Not to create any Order of Decoration.

5. To abstain from creating any Order of Decoration intended to be conferred in the name of the United Principalities.

Rights of Sovereignty.

6. Always to respect my Rights of Sovereignty over the United Principalities, which form an integral part of my Empire, and carefully to maintain the secular bonds which unite them to Turkey.

Tribute.

7. To increase the Tribute paid to my Government by the Principalities in the proportion which shall hereafter be fixed in concert with you.

Disturbers of the Peace not to be allowed in the United

Principalities.

8. Not to permit that the Territory of the United Provinces shall serve as a focus for Ringleaders of Disturbances, such as would endanger the tranquillity either of the other parts of my Empire or of neighbouring States.

Security to Turkish Subjects trading in the Principalities.

9. To come to an understanding hereafter with my Imperial Government for the adoption of practical measures necessary to secure the assistance and protection due to those of my subjects who from other parts of my Empire shall proceed to the United Principalities with the object of entering into commercial transactions.

Hereditary Title of Prince of the United Principalities.

Considering the conditions enumerated above, and the engagements contained in the before-mentioned answer to the letter of my Grand Vizier, the Rank and the Prerogatives of

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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.]

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