[Turco-Russian Boundary in Asia.] No. 287.-SUPPLEMENTARY ACT, relative to the Turco-Russian Boundary in Asia. Signed at HadjiBairam, 30 August, 11 September 1858. [Concluded in the presence of M. Melik-Agamaloff, Chief of the Russian District of Erivan, and of M. Halid Effendi, Chief of the Turkish District of Kagizman.] TABLE. Families of Djerikli and Hussein-Kent electing to pass over to Turkish Dominions. Russian objections. Inhabitants of villages of Djerikli and Hussein-Kent to pass over to Turkish Dominions. Djelil-Bey-bin-Abbas to remain a Russian subject. Russian objections to form subject of Special Negotiations. Right of Inhabitants of Hadji-Bairam to grow Crops on Turkish side of Arpa-Tchai. (Translation.) Families of Djerikli and Hussein-Kent, electing to pass over to Turkish Dominions. THE Boundary Commission, assembled at the village of Hussein-Kent for the purpose of carrying out the instructions of the Commission of 1857 (No. 283), convoke to that place the Chief of the Russian District of Erivan, the Mudir of the Turkish District of Kagizman, and the fathers of families of Djerikli and of Hussein Kent. These, being invited to declare to the Boundary Commissioners, on behalf of their families, whether they desired to pass henceforth, with their lands, under the Turkish dominion, or whether they would remain personally under the Russian dominion, reply severally as follows, that is to say :— M. Melik Agamaloff, Chief of the Russian District of Erivan, objects to the above-mentioned Ali and Kourban, indicated by Nos. 12 and 13, being allowed to pass freely over to Turkey; he maintains that they belong, according to the Official Registers, to the village of Akh-Tasch in the district of Sourmalinsk, and that they have only lived in the village of Hussein-Kent since the year 1856; and further, that the chief of that village has received several official orders to send them back to Akh-Tasch. These documents are reproduced and restored by the Commission of Demarcation to M. Agamaloff. The Boundary Commission decree Inhabitants of Villages of Djerikli and Hussein-Kent to pass over to Turkish Dominion. 1. That the Inhabitants of the villages of Djerikli and HusseinKent shall pass, in accordance with their wishes, together with their lands, under the Turkish dominion. Djelil-Bey-bin-Abbas to remain a Russian Subject. 2. That the Proprietor Djelil-Bey-bin-Abbas shall remain, in accordance with his wish, a Russian subject, with the right to withdraw his personal property before the 19th November next. Russian Objections to form subject of Special Negotiations. 3. That the above-named Ali and Kourban have the right to remain with their families in the village of Hussein-Kent until the local authorities, Russian and Turkish, shall decide, by means [Turco-Russian Boundary in Asia.] of special negotiations, to which of the two Powers, Turkish or Russian, they shall be subject. Right of Inhabitants of Hadji-Bairam to grow Crops on Turkish side of Arpa-Tchai. 4. That the Inhabitants of the village of Hadji-Bairam shall have the right (without any obstacle or tax whatsoever on the part of the Turkish or Russian Authorities), to grow their crops which are situated on the Turkish side of Arpa-Tchaï until the 19th November of the present year of 1858. 1st December Hadji-Bairam, 30th August, 1858. 11th September' EDWARD R. JAMES Boundary Commissioners. [Frontiers of Albania, the Herzegovine, and Montenegro.] No. 288.-PROCES-VERBAL between the Representatives of Great Britain, Austria, France, Prussia, Russia, and Turkey, for the Settlement of the Frontiers of Albania, the Herzegovine, and Montenegro.* Signed at Constantinople, 8th November, 1858. (Translation.†) A MEETING having been held between the Grand Vizier, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Sublime Porte, and the President of the Council of the Tauzimat, duly authorised by the Sultan on the one part, and the Representatives of Austria, France, Great Britain, Prussia, and Russia, also furnished with instructions to that effect by their respective Governments, on the other part, the labours of the local Commission charged to report the statu quo of the Frontiers of Albania, Herzegovine, and Montenegro, such as they existed in the month of March, 1856 (No. 268), were taken into consideration. After examination, it has been decided that the Frontiers in question should be determined in conformity with the line traced in red (minium) on the Map annexed to the present Procès-Verbal as signed by the Members of the Meeting. A copy legalised by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Sublime Porte shall be delivered to each Representative. It is agreed that a Boundary Commission of Engineers, the composition of which shall be discussed by the Governments of the High Powers represented at the said Meeting, shall proceed to the Frontier next Spring to assist in placing the Posts which are to fix the Limits of Albania, Herzegovine, and Montenegro, by strictly following the line traced on the annexed Map. That Commission may, nevertheless, when it shall consider it necessary, consult the old inhabitants of the Country and take into consideration the land-slips in order to give all the necessary precision to the line of Frontiers; it must particularly have recourse to that method in order to determine the Limits between the Upper Wassawitch and the Lower Wassawitch and the Kolaschines, pointed out by dots on the Map. See also Protocols of 17th April, 1860, 31st August, 1862, 3rd May, 1864, and 26th October, 1866. + For French version, see "State Papers," vol. 1, p. 1001. [Frontiers of Albania, the Herzegovine, and Montenegro.] It is well understood that the Demarcation shall in no way interfere with the Private Property possessed on either side of the Frontiers, either by Individuals or by Villages. The differences which may arise on the subject, and which could not be settled by the parties interested according to the usage of the locality, shall be examined and adjudged as a last resort by the Commission charged with fixing the Posts, whether the actual Proprietors shall prefer to continue in possession of their Lands and of their Rights, by submitting within a fixed period, to all the Taxes, and to all the Charges, in the same manner as the other Inhabitants of the locality, or by alienating their Lands and their Rights against an Indemnity equitably adjudged by the said Commission. Done at Constantinople, 8th November, AALI. FUAD. MEHEMED RUCHDI. THOUVENEL. H. L. BULWER. BOUTENEFF. |