[Vallee des Dappes.] Postal Regulations. The Postal correspondence exchanged between the same points, and the postal walks which the Swiss Postal Administration shall think fit to establish on the same road, shall not be subject to any Tax, or to pay any Duty for journeys on French Territory. Rights of Proprietors of Woods. ART. VI. Until the arrangement contemplated by Article VIII of the Treaty of 18th July, 1828, for the regulation of bordering Forests, shall have been concluded, the Proprietors of Woods situated on the Territories respectively ceded shall enjoy the free right to work them, and to remove the produce. The same right applies to pay and other produce of the Territories respectively ceded. ART. VII. Treaty not to interfere with acquired Rights. Appointment of Boundary Commissioners. ART. VIII. The Contracting Parties shall appoint Commissioners to determine on the spot the new Line of Frontier resulting from the present Treaty, taking account, as far as possible, of local circumstances and the division of Property, to erect stakes and to draw up a procès-verbal of their operations. That procès-verbal shall be considered as forming part of the one drawn up by the French and Swiss Commissioners appointed for the demarcation of the Frontier between the Canton of Vaud and France, and signed on the 16th September, 1825. The new Frontier shall form the object of a Topographical Statement, made by Staff Officers or Engineers of the two Countries. Ratifications.* ART. IX. The present Treaty shall be ratified, and the Ratifications exchanged as soon as possible. In testimony whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the above Articles, under the reservation of their Ratification, and have affixed thereto the Seal of their Arms. Berne, 8th December, 1862. (L.S.) TURGOT. * Ratifications exchanged at Berne, 20th February, 1863. [Boundaries.] No. 340.- BOUNDARY CONVENTION between France and Spain. Signed at Bayonne, 27th February, 1863. TABLE. Reference to Treaty of 2nd December, 1856, and 14th April, 1862. Procès-verbal fixing the Landmarks of the International II. Rights respectively enjoyed by the several Frontier Communes III. Regulations for the Seizure of Cattle. (Translation.) Reference to Treaty of 2nd December, 1856, and 14th April, 1862. His Majesty the Emperor of the French, and Her Majesty the Queen of Spain, wishing to regulate in a definitive manner the execution of the Boundary Treaty concluded at Bayonne, on the 14th April, 1862 (No. 336), between France and Spain, and to proceed with the operations for fixing the Boundaries and drawing up the Annexes prescribed by Articles VIII, XV, XVIII, and XXV of the said Treaty, have appointed for that purpose as their Plenipotentiaries, namely: His Majesty the Emperor of the French, the Sieur Charles Victor Lobstein, Minister Plenipotentiary, &c.; and the Sieur Camille Antoine Callier, General of Brigade, &c. ; And Her Majesty the Queen of Spain, Don Francisco Maria Marin, Minister Plenipotentiary, &c.; and Don Manuel Monteverde y Bethancourt, Marshal of the National Armies, &c. ; Who, after having communicated to each other their respective Full Powers, found to be in good and due form, have drawn up and united in the present Act the three following Annexes, which shall have the same force and value as if they were inserted in the above-mentioned Treaty, of which they form the completion: ANNEX I to III. (See Table.) *For French version, see "State Papers," vol. liii, p. 159. [Boundaries.] Ratifications.* The present Convention shall be ratified, and the Ratifications thereof shall be exchanged as soon as possible. In testimony whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed it, and have affixed thereto the Seal of their Arms. Done at Bayonne, the 27th February, 1863. (L.S.) VR. LOBSTEIN. (L.S.) GAL. CALLIER. (L.S.) FRANCO MA. MARIN. (L.S.) MANL. MONTEVERDE. * Ratifications exchanged at Madrid, 21st April, 1863. [Ionian Islands.] No. 341.-DECREE of the National Assembly of the Hellenes, relative to the Cessation of the Protectorate of Great Britain over the Ionian Islands. Athens, 20th March, 1863. (Translation.*) THE Second National Assembly of the Hellenes, at Athens, Taking into consideration what has been declared in the Speech of Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain, on the opening of the British Parliament, with reference to the Cessation of the Protectorate of Great Britain over the Ionian Islands,† as well as the communications upon the same subject, made to the Provisional Government by the Envoy Extraordinary of the above-mentioned Power; Constituting itself, after the Election which has just been made of the King of the Hellenes, the Interpreter of the wishes of the Nation, Decrees: 1. The Hellenic Nation expresses its ardent desire to see the Greek State of the Seven Islands united as soon as possible to * For French version, see "State Papers," vol. liv, p. 976. Extract from the Speech of the Lords Commissioners, on the opening of the British Parliament. 5th February, 1863 :-" A Revolution having taken place in Greece, by which the Throne of that Kingdom has become vacant, the Greek Nation have expressed the strongest desire that Her Majesty's son, Prince Alfred, should accept the Greek Crown. This unsolicited and spontaneous manifestation of goodwill towards Her Majesty and her Family, and of a due appreciation of the benefits conferred by the principles and practice of the British Constitution, could not fail to be highly gratifying, and has been deeply felt by Her Majesty. "But the diplomatic engagements of Her Majesty's Crown (No. 159), together with other weighty considerations, have prevented Her Majesty from yielding to this general wish of the Greek Nation. "Her Majesty trusts, however, that the same principles of choice which led the Greek Nation to direct their thoughts, in the first instance, towards His Royal Highness Prince Alfred, may guide them to the selection of a Sovereign under whose sway the Kingdom of Greece may enjoy the blessings of internal prosperity and of peaceful relations with other States; and if in such a state of things the Republic of the Seven Islands should declare a deliberate wish to be united to the Kingdom of Greece, Her Majesty would be prepared to take such steps as may be necessary for a revision of the Treaty of November, 1815 (No. 39), by which that Republic was reconstituted and was placed under the Protection of the British Crown." [Ionian Islands.] Greece, now free, under the Constitutional Sceptre of George I, King of the Hellenes. 2. Thanks are tendered to Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain, for the benevolent intention which she has already expressed with reference to the accomplishment of that ardent desire of the Greek Nation. 3. The Executive Power is entrusted with the communication of the present Decree to whoever it may concern. [See also Protocols of Conferences between Great Britain, Austria, &c., of 5th and 26th June, and 1st August, 1863; Decision of Ionian Islands of 19th October, 1863; Treaty between Great Britain, Austria, &c., of 14th November, 1863; Treaty between Great Britain, &c., and Greece of 29th March, 1864; Protocol between Great Britain and Ionian Islands of 28th May, 1864; and Accession of Turkey of 8th April, 1865.] [For Decree of 18th March, 1863, see page 1543.] |