[Boundaries.]

No. 209.-BOUNDARY TREATY between Austria and Saxony. Signed at Dresden, 5th March, 1848.

1. The Boundary Line between the Kingdoms of Bohemia and Sarony to be hereafter as settled in this Treaty, and in the Separate Act A annexed hereto.

2. Where Rivers, Brooks, Ditches, or Roads divide the Countries the Boundary Line passes, as a rule, along the centre of them.

3. Treatment of Boundary Brooks arranged in Special Convention B annexed hereto.

4. Line of Boundary between Bohemian Saaz and the Saxon Erzgebirge, and between Bohemian Jungbunzlau and Saxon Ober-Lausitz Circles is described in the Annexes C and D. Boundary Line between Bohemian Ellbogn and Leitmeritz and Saxon Voigtländ, Erzgebirge and Meissner Circles not yet settled-the descriptions to be appended to this Treaty.

5. Map of the Boundary to be prepared.

6. Boundary Line to be kept clear and distinct.

7. Local authorities to maintain Boundary Marks.

8. The Emperor of Austria renounces his Claim to Sovereignty over the 4 Rumburg Districts, Niederleutersdorf, Neuleutersdorf, Josephsdorf, and Neuwalde, which are already in possession of the King of Saxony, as well as the enclave Schirgiswalde.

9. The formal transfer of these and other places to take place within 6 weeks.

10. Transfer of Public Documents.

11. Collection of Taxes.

12. Rights of Private Possessors.

13. Emigration and Immigration from one Country to the other.

14. Persons in Military Service.

15. Private rights of the Contracting Parties.

16. Ecclesiastical, Educational, Jurisdictional, and Political relations at Ullersdorf, Weigsdorf, Neuminkwitz, and Dörfel.

17. The same in the 4 Rumburg Districts.

18. Settlement of Private Disputes.

19. Ratifications.

A. SEPARATE ACT. Signed at Dresden, 5th March, 1848.

§§ 1 to 28. Boundary between the Ellbogn and the Voigtländ Circles. 29 to 35. Boundary between the Ellbogn and the Erzgebirge Circles. 36 to 56. Boundary between the Saaz and the Erzgebirge Circles. 57 to 62. Boundary between the Leitmeritz and the Erzgebirge Circles. 63 to 73. Boundary between the Leitmeritz and the Meissner Circles. 74 to 87. Boundary between the Leitmeritz Circle and Ober-Lausitz. 88 to 96. Boundary between the Junghunzlau Circle and Ober-Lausitz.

[Boundaries.]

B. CONVENTION for the treatment of Boundary Brooks between Bohemia and Saxony.

§ 1. Boundary Line in the middle of the Brooks.

2. Accidents and corpora delictorum.

3. Private Rights.

4. Fluvial Rights.

5. Private Disputes.

6. New Water-works.

7. Navigable Waters.

8. Cleansing.

9. Change of Course.

10. Islands.

11. New Water-ways.

12. Bridges and Gangways. 13. Ratifications.

(Translation.)

WHEREAS His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, &c., and His Majesty the King of Saxony, have appointed Extraordinary Commissioners to digest into one general Act of State the previous Agreements relating to the Boundary relations of their two States, namely, His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, his Court Councillor William, Baron von Pflügl-Lissinez, and His Majesty the King of Saxony, his Privy Councillor Dr. Maximilian Günther; and these Commissioners have, in virtue of their Full Powers, agreed upon the following Articles:

ARTS. I to XIX. (See Table.)
Dresden, 5th March, 1848.

BARON V. PFLUGL.
DR. M. GUNTHER.

A. SEPARATE Acr. Signed at Dresden, 5th March, 1848. §§ 1 to 96. (See Table.)

IONVENTION for the treatment of Boundary Brooks between
Bohemia and Saxony.

§ 1 to 13. (See Table.)

Dresden, 12th October, 1848.

[Mentone and Roccabruna.]

No. 210.-DECREE of the King of Sardinia, relative to the Annexation of Mentone and Roccabruna to Sardinia. Turin, 18th September, 1848.*

(Translation.)

Charles Albert, by the Grace of God, &c.

CONSIDERING the acts of the inhabitants of Mentone and Roccabruna of the 2nd March, 28th May, 26th and 30th June, of the present year; on the proposition of our Minister of the Interior, the Council of Ministers being heard, have ordered and order as follows:

Sole Article. The two towns of Mentone and Roccabruna shall be occupied without delay by our Government, to be provisionally governed in accordance with the Laws in force, until it shall hereafter have been decreed.

Turin, 18th September, 1848.

CHARLES ALBERT.

[Various important Political Events took place in Hungary, in the Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom, in SchleswigHolstein, and in other parts of Europe, in this year; but as they led to no permanent change in the MAP OF EUROPE, it has not been thought necessary to allude to them in this work.]

* By the Treaty between France and Sardinia of 2nd February, 1861, Mentone and Roccabruna were ceded to France.

[Treaty of Balta-Liman.]

No. 211.-ACT between Russia and Turkey, relative to Moldavia and Wallachia. Signed at Balta-Liman, 1st May, 1849.*

Preamble. Reference to Treaties of 7th October, 1826, and 14th September, 1829.

1. Election of Hospodars of Moldavia and Wallachia by the Sultan.

2. Alterations in Organic Statute of 1831.

3. Commissions of Revision of Organic Statute to be established at Jassy and Bucharest. Work of Commissioners to be sanctioned by Ottoman Government.

4. Occupation of the Country by Ottoman and Russian Troops.

5. Extraordinary Russian and Ottoman Commissioners to reside in Principalities.

6. Agreement to last 7 years.

7. Treaties, &c., respecting Principalities to remain in Force.

(Translation as laid before Parliament.)

Reference to Treaties of 7th October, 1826, and 14th September, 1829.

HIS Imperial Majesty the Most High and Most Mighty Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias, and His Imperial Majesty the Most High and Most Mighty Emperor and Padishah of the Ottomans, animated by an equal solicitude for the wellbeing of the Principalities of Moldavia and of Wallachia, and faithful to the antecedent Engagements which secure to the said Principalities the privilege of a distinct administration and certain other local immunities, have recognised that in consequence of the commotions by which those Provinces, and more particularly Wallachia, have been agitated, it becomes necessary to adopt by common Agreement extraordinary and effectual measures for the protection of those immunities and privileges, either against revolutionary and anarchical convulsions, or against the abuses of power which paralysed the execution of the laws therein, and deprived the peaceable inhabitants of the benefits of the administration which the two Principalities ought to enjoy in virtue of the solemn Treaties concluded between Russia and the Sublime Porte (see Nos. 131, 145).

For this purpose we, the Undersigned, by order and by the express authorisation of His Majesty the Emperor of All the *See also General Treaty of 30th March, 1856, and Convention of 19th August, 1858.

[Treaty of Balta-Liman.]

Russias, and His Highness Reshid Pasha, Grand Vizier, and His Excellency Aali Pasha, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Sublime Ottoman Porte, by order and by the express authorisation of His Majesty the Sultan, after having duly communicated and concerted together, have agreed upon and concluded the following Articles:

Election of Hospodars of Moldavia and Wallachia by the Sultan.

ART. I. Considering the exceptional circumstances brought on by the recent events, the two Imperial Courts have agreed, that instead of following the mode established by the Regulation of 1831 for the election of the Hospodars of Moldavia and Wallachia, those high functionaries shall be nominated by His Majesty the Sultan according to a mode especially agreed upon for this occasion between the two Courts, with the view of confiding the administration of those Provinces to the candidates most worthy, and enjoying the best reputation among their fellow-countrymen. For this occasion likewise, the two Hospodars shall only be nominated for 7 years, the two Courts reserving to themselves, a year before the expiration of the term fixed for the present Agreement, to take into consideration the internal state of the Principalities, and the services which may have been rendered by the two Hospodars, in order, by mutual agreement, to consider of the further determinations to be taken.

Alterations in Organic Statute of 1831.

ART. II. The Organic Statute granted to the Principalities in 1831 shall remain in force, saving the alterations and modifications of which the necessity shall have been proved by experience, specifically in regard to the Ordinary and Extraordinary Assemblies of the Boyards. These Assemblies, in the form in which they have heretofore been composed and elected, having more than once given rise to deplorable conflicts, and even to acts of open insubordination, their convocation shall continue to be suspended, and the two Courts reserve to themselves to come to an understanding on the subject of their re-establishment on bases settled with all requisite deliberation, at the time when they shall judge that that measure can be carried into effect without inconvenience as regards the maintenance of public tranquillity in the two Principalities. The deliberative functions shall be provisionally entrusted to Councils or Divans, ad hoc, composed of the Boyards