[Scheldt Toll.] This Declaration was placed on record, and it shall be inserted in or annexed to the General Treaty. Done at Brussels, 16th July, 1863. (L.S.) BN. GERICKE DE HERWYNEN. (L.S.) HOWARD DE WAL DEN AND SEA- (L.S.) BARON DE HUGEL. (L.S.) H. S. SANDFORD. (L.S.) VON HODENBERG. (L.S.) CTE. DE MONTALTO. (L.S.) ORLOFF. (L.S.) ADALBERT MANS- (L.S.) C. MUSURUS. (L.S.) BN. LAMBERMONT. [Union of Ionian Islands to Greece.] No. 350.-PROTOCOL OF CONFERENCE between the Plenipotentiaries of Great Britain, Austria, France, Prussia, and Russia, respecting the Union of the Ionian Islands to Greece. London, 1st August, 1863.* [This Protocol was annexed to the Treaty of 14th November, 1863.] TABLE. Assent of Austria, France, Prussia, and Russia, to Renunciation by Great Britain of Protectorate over Ionian Islands, and its Union to Greece. Reference to Treaty of 5th November, 1815. (Translation as laid before Parliament.†) Present: The Plenipotentiaries of Austria, France, Great Britain, Prussia, and Russia. Assent of Austria, France, Prussia, and Russia to Renunciation by Great Britain of Protectorate over Ionian Islands, and its Union to Greece. Reference to Treaty of 5th November, 1815. THE Principal Secretary of State of IIer Britannic Majesty explained the reasons which induce the Government of Her Majesty to come to an understanding with the Courts of Austria, France, Prussia, and Russia as to the revision of the Treaty of the 5th November, 1815 (No. 39), in virtue of which the Ionian Islands were placed under the immediate and exclusive Protection of Great Britain. Animated by the desire to consolidate by new arrangements the welfare of the People hitherto confided to its care, the Government of Her Britannic Majesty would consider the Union of the Ionian Islands to the Hellenic Kingdom as the solution most conformable to the mutual interests of the two countries, connected with each other by community of origin and of religious belief. The Representatives of Austria, France, Prussia, and Russia declared: * See also Treaties of 14th November, 1863, and 29th March, 1864. [Union of Ionian Islands to Greece.] That their Courts unanimously acknowledge the right of the Government of Her Britannic Majesty to renounce the exercise of the exclusive Protectorate established by the Treaty of the 5th November, 1815 (No. 39): That they are disposed to grant their assent and to lend their support to the Union of the Ionian Islands to the Hellenic Kingdom, if the wish of the Ionian Parliament should be pronounced in favour of that plan: That they reserve to the Government of Her Britannic Majesty to consult the Representatives of the Septinsular State on this subject: That after having obtained certain knowledge of the assent of that Assembly, the Courts of Austria, France, Prussia, and Russia will declare themselves ready to come to an agreement with the Government of Her Britannic Majesty with regard to the definitive terms of the Treaty destined to place the proposed arrangement under the sanction of a European Act.* * See Treaties of 14th November, 1863, and 29th March, 1864. [Scheldt Toll.] No. 351.-CONVENTION between Great Britain and Belgium, relative to the Redemption of the Scheldt Toll. Signed at Brussels, 3rd August, 1863.* Reference to Treaty of 19th April, 1839. 1. Parliament to be recommended to pay proportion of Great Britain towards Redemption of Scheldt Toll. 2. Date of Payments. 3. Ratifications. Reference to Treaty of 19th April, 1839. HER Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and His Majesty the King of the Belgians, being desirous to complete the arrangements contained in the General Treaty of the 16th July (No. 348), to which their Majesties are Contracting Parties, for the Abolition of the Toll levied upon the Navigation of the Scheldt, in virtue of Paragraph 3 of Article IX of the Treaty of the 19th April, 1839 (No. 183), have resolved to conclude a Special Convention for that purpose, and have named as their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say: Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Charles Augustus Lord Howard de Walden and Seaford, a Peer of the United Kingdom, Her Britannic Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to His Majesty the King of the Belgians, &c.; And His Majesty the King of the Belgians, the Sieur Charles Rogier, his Minister for Foreign Affairs, &c.; Who, after having communicated to each other their respective Full Powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon and concluded the following Articles : Parliament to be recommended to pay proportion of Great Britain towards Redemption of Scheldt Toll.† ART. I. Her Britannic Majesty engages to recommend to her Parliament to enable her to pay to His Majesty the King of the Belgians the sum of 8,782,320 francs, being the proportion falling to the charge of Great Britain, as stipulated by Article IV of the * Similar Conventions were signed by the other Powers Parties to the Treaty of 16th July, 1863. + See Supplementary Estimates, House of Commons, 1864, Paper No. 111 1865, Paper No. 93. ; [Scheldt Toll.] General Treaty signed the 16th July (No. 348), of the whole sum of 17,141,640 florins, to be paid by His Majesty the King of the Belgians to His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, and to be received by His Netherland Majesty in full compensation for the sacrifices which the arrangements of the said Treaty impose upon him. Date of Payments. ART. II. The sum of 8,782,320 francs mentioned in the preceding Article shall be paid at Brussels, without interest, to such person as may be authorised by His Majesty the King of the Belgians to receive the same, one-half on the 1st April, 1864, and the other half on the 1st April, 1865. Ratifications. ART. III. The present Convention shall be ratified, and the Ratifications thereof shall be exchanged at Brussels. In faith whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed it, and have affixed thereto their Seals. Made at Brussels, in duplicate, the 3rd August, 1863. (L.S.) HOWARD DE WALDEN AND SEAFORD. (L.S.) CH. ROGIER. * Ratifications exchanged at Brussels, 25th August, 1863. |