Neunkirchen, annex to Schwer- The ceded portion of Heiningen. dorf. Remeldorf. Leidingen and the northern portion of its Territory. Niedwelling and Gerstling. The ceded portion of Ihn, or Lognon. Heining. Bedersdorf. Ittersdorf. Berus and Saint-Oraine. Ueberherrn. The ceded portion of Leiding. The Farm of Warent and the [Independence of Greece.] No. 149.-PROTOCOL of Conference between Great Britain, France, and Russia, relative to the Independence of Greece. London, 3rd of February, 1830.* [The following clauses of this Protocol were referred to in the Treaty of 7th May, 1832.] (Extract.) (Translation as laid before Parliament.†) PRESENT: The Plenipotentiaries of Great Britain, France, and Russia. Independence of Greece. § 1. Greece shall form an Independent State, and shall enjoy all the rights, political, administrative, and commercial, attached to complete Independence. Form of Government. § 3. The Greek Government shall be Monarchical, and hereditary according to the order of primogeniture. It shall be confided to a Prince, who shall not be capable of being chosen from among those of the families reigning in the States that signed the Treaty of the 6th July, 1827 (No. 136), and who shall bear the title of Sovereign Prince of Greece. The choice of that Prince shall form the object of subsequent communications and stipulations. Guarantee of 3 Powers. § 8. Each of the 3 Courts shall retain the power, secured to it by Article VI of the Treaty of the 6th July, 1827 (No. 136), of guaranteeing the whole of the foregoing arrangements and Articles. The Acts of Guarantee, if there be any, shall be drawn up separately; the operation and effects of these different Acts shall become, in conformity with the above-mentioned Article, the object of further stipulations on the part of the High Powers No troops belonging to one of the Contracting Powers shall be allowed to enter the territory of the new Greek State, without the consent of the two other Courts who signed the Treaty. See Treaties of 7th May, 1832; 30th April, 1833; 13th July and 14th November, 1863; and 29th March, 1864. † For French version, see "State Papers," vol. xvii, p. 191. Great Britain, France, and Russia. |