sterling a year shall be appropriated, in monthly payments, to the augmentation of the Civil List of His Majesty the King of the Hellenes, so as to constitute the first charge upon the revenue of the Ionian Islands, unless provision be made for such payment, according to the Constitutional forms, out of the revenues of the Kingdom of Greece[1].
In consequence, His Majesty the King of the Hellenes engages to carry that Decree duly into execution.
Relinquishment by the Powers of part of their claims in favour of the King.Art. VI. Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, His Majesty the Emperor of the French, and His Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, agree to relinquish in favour of His Majesty King George I, each four thousand pounds sterling a year, out of the sums which the Greek Treasury has engaged to pay annually to each of them, in virtue of the arrangement concluded at Athens by the Greek Government, with the concurrence of the Greek Chambers, in the month of June, 1860.
It is expressly understood that these three sums, forming a total of twelve thousand pounds sterling annually, shall be destined to constitute a personal dotation of His Majesty King George I, in addition to the Civil List fixed by the law of the State[2]. The accession of His Majesty to the Hellenic Throne shall not otherwise involve any change in the financial engagements which Greece has contracted by Article XII of the Convention of May 7, 1832, towards the Powers guarantees of the loan, nor in the execution of the engagement taken by the Hellenic Government in the month of June, 1860, upon the representation of the three Courts[3].
Treaties and Contracts.Art. VII. His Majesty the King of the Hellenes engages to take upon himself all the engagements and contracts lawfully concluded by the Government of the United States of the Ionian Islands, or in their name by the Protecting Power of those Islands, conformably to the Constitution of the- ↑ Cf. Art. 9 of the Treaty of 13th July, 1863. The existing Constitution of Greece was adopted on 28th November, 1864.
- ↑ Cf. Art. 10 of the Treaty of 13th July, 1863.
- ↑ Cf. Art. 11 of the Treaty of 13th July, 1863, and supra, pp. 21, 38 n. By 27 and 28 Vict. cap. 40, the Treasury was authorized to give effect to the relinquishment agreed upon in this Article.
