stipulated hy anterior regulations, is maintained[1]. No armed intervention can take place in Servia without previous agreement between the High Contracting Powers.
Asiatic Boundary[2].
Restoration of the status quo. Art. XXX. His Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias and His Majesty the Sultan maintain, in its integrity, the state of their possessions in Asia, such as it legally existed before the rupture.
In order to prevent all local dispute, the line of frontier shall be verified, and, if necessary, rectified, without any prejudice as regards territory being sustained by either party.
For this purpose a Mixed Commission, composed of two Russian Commissioners, two Ottoman Commissioners, one English Commissioner, and one French Commissioner, shall be sent to the spot immediately after the re-establishment of diplomatic relations between the Court of Russia and the Sublime Porte. Its labours shall be completed within the period of eight months after the exchange of the ratifications of the present Treaty[3].
Evacuation.
- ↑ V. supra, p. 236.
- ↑ Cf. Arts. 58−60, of the Treaty of Berlin.
- ↑ The Final Act of this Mixed Commission was signed at Constantinople on 5th December, 1857; N.R. G. xx, 13. See also the Protocol of the Conference of Paris of 28th April, 1858; N. R. G. ib. 18. A Supplementary Act was signed on 11th September, 1858, at Hadji-Bairam. Ibid.