Page:The European Concert in the Eastern Question.djvu/282

 general plan of the quays, and as tending in nowise to compromise the effect of the works of improvement.

Part II. Provisions relating to the Administrative Control of the Navigation.

§ 1. Cf Regulations in General.

VII. The navigation of the mouths of the Danube is governed by the 'Regulation of Navigation and Police,' enacted by the European Commission under date of this day, and which, annexed under letter A to the present Act, is to have the same force and value as if it formed part of it. It is understood that this regulation is binding as law, not only in what concerns the river police, but also for the judgment of cases of civil procedure arising from the exercise of the navigation.

VIII. The exercise of the navigation of the Lower Danube is placed under the authority and the superintendence of the Inspector-General of the Lower Danube, and of the Captain of the port of Sulina.

These two Agents named by the Sublime Porte, shall conform all their Acts to the regulation, the application of which is confided to them, and to the strict observance of which they shall be sworn. The sentences emanating from their authority shall be pronounced in the name of His Majesty the Sultan.

In case the European Commission or the permanent Riverain Commission shall establish that a delinquency or offence has been committed by one or other of the said Agents against the regulation of navigation and police, ''it will request his dismissal from the Sublime Porte. If the Sublime Porte thinks it necessary to 'proceed to a fresh inquiry into the facts already established by the Commission, the latter will have the right to attend it by the medium of a delegate, and when the culpability of the accused shall have been duly proved, the Sublime Porte will provide without delay for his being replaced.''

Except in the case provided for by the preceding paragraph,