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JSTOR helps people discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content through a powerful research and teaching platform, and preserves this content for future generations. JSTOR is part of ITHAKA, a not-for-profit organization that also includes Ithaka S+R and Portico. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. 01FICIAL DOCUMENTS 401 ARTICLE XXIX. The presentAct shall be ratifiedby theirImperial Majesties the Em- perorof Russia and the Emperorof the Ottomans,and the ratifications shall be exchangedin fifteendays, or soonerif possible,at St. Peters- burgh,where likewise an agreementshall cometo as to the place and the time at whichthe stipulationsof the presentAct shall be investedwith all the solemnforms usually observedin Treatiesof Peace. It is, how- ever,well understoodthat the High ContractingParties considerthem- selves as formallybound by the presentAct fromthe momentof its ratification. In witness whereofthe respectivePlenipotentiaries have appended theirsignatures and seals to the presentAct. Done at San Stefano,the nineteeinhFuary, one thousandeight hundred and seventy-eight. (Signed) Cte. N. IGNATIEW. (Signed) SAFVET. NELIDOW. SADOULLAH. [Final paragraphof Article XI of the Act of the Preliminariesof Peace signed this day, February 19 1878 which was omitted and which shouldform an integralpart of the said Article: [The inhabitantsof the Principalityof Bulgaria when travellingor sojourningin the otherparts of the OttomanEmpire shall be subjectto the Ottomanlaws and authorities. (Signed) Cte. N. IGNATIEW. (Signed) SAFVET. NELIDOW. SADOULLAH. SAN STEFANO, February19, 1878.] TREATY BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN, GERMANY, AUSTRIA, FRANCE, ITALY, RUSSIA, AND TURKEY FOR THE SETTLEMENT OF AFFAIRS IN THE EAST. Signed at Berlin, July 13, 1878. In thename of AlmightyGod. Her Majestythe Queen of the TUnitedKingdom of GreatBritain and Ireland,Empress of India, His Majestythe Emperorof Germany,King of Prussia,His Majestythe Emperorof Austria,King of Bohemia,&c., and King Apostolicof Hungary,the Presidentof the French Republic, 402 THE A3MERICAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW His Majesty the King of Italy, His Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias,and His Majestythe Emperorof the Ottomans,being desirous to regulate,with a view to European order,conformably to the stipula- tionsof the Treatyof Paris of 30th March,1856, the questionsraised in the East by the eventsof late yearsand by the war terminatedby the preliminaryTreaty of San Stefano,have been unanimouslyof opinion that the meetingof a Congresswould offerthe bestmeans of facilitating an understanding. Their said Majesties and the Presidentof the French Republichave, in consequence,appointed as theirPlenipotentiaries, that is to say: Her Majestythe Queen of the United Kingdomof GreatBritain and Ireland, Empress of India, the Right HonourableBenjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield,Viscount Hughenden, a Peer of Parliament,Mem- ber of Her Majesty'sMost HonourablePrivy Council, First Lord of Her Majesty'sTreasury, and Prime Ministerof England; the Most Honour- able RobertArthur Talbot GascoyneCecil, Marquisof Salisbury,Earl of Salisbury,Viscount Cranborne, Baron Cecil, a Peer of Parliament,Mem- ber of Her Majesty's MtostHonourable Privy Council, Her Miajesty's Principal Secretaryof State forForeign Affairs; and the RightHonour- able Lord Odo WilliamLeopold Russell,Member of Her Majesty'sPrivy Council, Her AmbassadorExtraordinary and Plenipotentiaryat the Courtof His Majestv the Emperorof Germany,King of Prussia; His Majestythe Emperorof Germany,King of Prussia, Otho,Prince Bismarck,His Presidentof the Council of AMinistersof Prussia, Chan- cellor of the Empire; BernardErnest de Bulow, His Ministerof State and Secretaryof State forForeign Affairs; and ClhlodwigCharles Victor, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst,Prince of Ratiborand Corvey,His AmbassadorExtraordinary and Plenipotentiaryto the FrenchRepublic, GreatChamberlain of the Crownof Bavaria; His Majestythe Emperorof Austria,King of Bohemia,&c., and King Apostolicof Hungary,Jules, Count Andrassyof Csik Szent-Kiralyand Krasna-Horka,Grandee of Spain of the First Class, Privy Councillor, His Ministerof the Imperial Householdand for ForeignAffairs, Lieu- tenant Field-Marshal in his armies; Louis Count Karolyi of Nagy- Karolyi, Chamberlainand Privy Councillor,His AmbassadorExtra- ordinarvand Plenipotentiarvat the Court of His 3Majestythe Emperor of Germanv,King of Prussia; and Henri, Baron de Haymerle,Privy Councillor,His AmbassadorExtraordinary and Plenipotentiaryat the Court of His 3Majestythe King of Italy; OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS 403 The Presidentof the French Republic,William Henri Waddington, Senator,Member of the Institute,Minister Secretary of State forForeign Affairs;Charles Raymondde la Croix de Clhevriere,Count de Saint- Vallier, Senator,Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaryfrom France at the Court of His Majestythe Emperorof Germany,King of Prussia; and Felix Hippolyte Desprez, Councillorof State; Minister Plenipotentiaryof the First Class, chargedwith the directionof Political Affairsat the Departmentof ForeignAffairs; His Majesty the King of Italy, Louis, Count Corti, Senator, His Ministerfor ForeignAffairs; and Edward, Count de Launay, His Am- bassadorExtraordinary and Plenipotentiaryat the Courtof His Majesty the Emperorof Germany,King of Prussia; His Majestythe Emperorof all the Russias,Alexander, Prince Gort- chakow,His Chancellorof the Empire; Peter, Count de Schouvaloff, Generalof Cavalry,His Aide-de-campGeneral, Member of the Council of the Empire,and His AmbassadorExtraordinary and Plenipotentiary at the Courtof Her BritannicMajesty; and Paul d'Oubril,Privy Coun- cillor,His AmbassadcrExtraordinary and Plenipotentiaryat the Court of His Majestythe Emperorof Germany,King of Prussia; And His Majesty the Emperor of the Ottomans,Alexander Cara- theodoryPasha, His Ministerof Public Works; MehernedAli Pasha, Mushir of His Armies; and Sadoullah Bey, His AmbassadorExtra- ordinaryand Plenipotentiaryat the Court of His Majestythe Emperor of Germany,King of Prussia; WVho,in accordancewith the proposal of the Courtof Austria-Hungary, and on the invitationof the Courtof Germany,have met at Berlin fur- nishedwith full powers,which have been foundin good ancddue form. An understandinghaving been happilyestablislhed between them, they have agreedto the followingstipulations: ARTICLE I. Bulgaria is constitutedan Autonomousand tributaryPrincipality underthe suzeraintyof His Imperial Majesty the Sultan; it will have a ChristianGovernment and a nationalmilitia. ARTICLE II. The Principalityof Bulgaria will includethe followingterritories: The frontierfollows on the norththe rightbank of the Danube from the formerfrontier of Servia up to a point to be determinedby a Euro- 404 THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW pean Commissionto the east of Silistria,and thenceruns to the Black Sea to the southof Mangalia,which is includedin the Roumanianterri- tory. The Black Sea formsthe easternboundary of Bulgaria. On the south the frontierfollows upwards from its mouththe mid-channelof the brooknear whichare situatedthe villagesof Hodzakioj, Selam-Kioj, Aivadsik, Kulibe, Sudzuluk; crosses obliquelythe valley of the Deli- Kamcik,passes southof Belibe and Kemhalikand northof Hadzimahale afterhaving crossed the Deli-Kamcikat 21 kilom.above Cengei; reaches the crest at a point situatedbetween Tekenlik and Aidos-Bredza,and followsit by Karnabad Balkan, PrisevicaBalkan, Kazan Balkan to the northof Kotel as far as Demir Kapu. It proceedsby the principalchain of the Great Balkan, the whole length of which it followsup to the summitof Kosica. There it leaves the crestof the Balkan, descendssouthwards between the villagesof Pirtopand Duzanci, the one beingleft to Bulgaria and the otherto Eastern Roumelia,as far as the brookof Tuzlu Dere, follows thatstream to its junctionwith the Topolnica,then the latterriver until it meets the SmovskioDere near the village of Petricevo,leaving to Eastern Roumeliaa zone with a radius of 2 kilom.above that junction, ascendsbetween the brooksof SmovskioDere and the Kamenica,follow- ing the line of the watershedso as to turnto the south-westat the level of Voinjak and reachdirectly the point875 of the AustrianStaff map. The frontierline cuts at rightangles the upper basin of the brookof IchtimanDere, passes betweenBogdina and Karaula, so as to rejoin the line of the watershedseparating the basins of the Isker and the Marica, betweenCarmurli and Hadzilar, followsthat line by the summitsof Velina Mogila,the " col " 531, ZmailicaVrh, Sumnatica,and rejoinsthe administrativeboundary of the Sandjak of Sofia betweenSivri Tas and Cadir Tepe. From Cadir Tepe, the