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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.

Evacuation by the allies. Art. XXXI. The territories occupied during the war by the troops of Their Majesties the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Emperor of Austria, the Emperor of the French, and the King of Sardinia, according to the terms of the Conventions signed at Constantinople on the twelfth of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, between Great Britain, France, and the Sublime Porte; on the fourteenth of June of the same year between Austria and the Sublime Porte; and on the fifteenth of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, between Sardinia and the Sublime Porte; shall be evacuated as soon as possible after the exchange of the ratifications of the present Treaty. The periods and the means of execution shall form the object of an arrangement between the Sublime Porte and the Powers whose troops have occupied its territory.

1. V. supra, p. 236.
2. Cf. Arts. 58−60, of the Treaty of Berlin.
3. 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.