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 Done at Paris, the nineteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.

No. IV. Public Act relative to the Navigation of the Mouths of the Danube, Signed at Galatz, November 2, 1865.

An European Commission having been instituted by Article XVI of the Treaty of Paris of 30th March, 1856, in order to put the part of the Danube lying below Isaktcha, its mouths, and the neighbouring part of the sea, in the best possible conditions of navigability :

And the said Commission acting in virtue of this mandate, having succeeded, after nine years' work, in realizing important improvements in the system of navigation — notably, by the construction of two piers at the mouth of the Sulina branch, which have had the effect of admitting into its embouchure vessels of a large draught of water — by the execution of works of correction and cleansing in the course of the same branch — by raising wrecks, and establishing a system of buoys — by the erection of a lighthouse at the mouth of the St. George — by the institution of a regular lifeboat service, and by the creation of a seaman's hospital at Sulina — lastly, by the provisional regulation of the different services connected with the navigation between Isaktcha and the sea: The Powers who signed the said Treaty concluded at Paris on the 30th March, 1856, desiring to make known that, in thus accomplishing an essential part, of its task, the European