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 merits shall be instituted wherever there shall be need, on the part of the river which traverses the territory of Turkey.

Part III. Neutrality.

XXI. The works and establishments of all kinds created by the European Commission of the Danube, or by the authority which shall succeed it, in execution of Article XVI of the Treaty of Paris, particularly the Navigation Cash Office at Sulina, and those which it may hereafter create, shall enjoy the neutrality stipulated by Article XI of the said Treaty, and shall be, in case of war, equally respected by all the belligerents.

The benefit of this neutrality shall be extended, with the obligations which spring from it, to the general inspection of the navigation, to the administration of the port of Sulina, to the staff of the Navigation Cash Office and Seaman's Hospital, and, lastly, to the technical staff charged with the superintendence of the works.

XXII. ''This present Act shall he ratified. Each of the High Contracting Parties will ratify in a single copy; and the ratifications shall be deposited within the space of two months^ or sooner if possible, in the Chancellery of the Imperial Divan at Constantinople.''

In faith of which the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed it, and set to it the seal of their arms.

Done at Galatz, the second day of the month of November, of the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.