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 His Majesty the King of Italy, Count Constantine Nigra, &c., his Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Her Britannic Majesty ;

His Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, Arthur Baron Mohrenheim, &c., his Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to her Britannic Majesty ;

His Majesty the Emperor of the Ottomans, Constantine Musurus Pasha, &c., his Ambassador and Plenipotentiary to Her Britannic Majesty ;

Who, after exchanging their full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed on the following Articles : —

I. The jurisdiction of the European Commission of the Danube is extended from Galatz to Ibraila.

II. The powers of the European Commission are prolonged for a period of twenty-one years, dating from the 20th April, 1883.

At the expiration of the said period, the powers of the Commission shall continue in force by tacit prolongation ('tacite réconduction') for successive terms of three years, unless one of the High Contracting Parties should notify, one year before the expiration of one of these terms of three years, the intention of proposing modifications in the constitution or in the powers of the Commission.

III. The European Commission shall exercise no effective control over those portions of the Kilia branch of which both banks belong to one of the Riverain States of that branch.

IV. With regard to that portion of the Kilia branch which flows between Russian and Roumanian territory, and in order to insure uniformity in the management of the Lower Danube, the regulations in force on the Sulina branch shall be applied under the superintendence of the Russian and Roumanian Delegates of the European Commission.

V. In case Russia or Roumania should undertake works in the Kilia branch, either in the part which divides their respective territories, or that which flows exclusively within the territories of either of them, the competent authority shall communicate the plans of these works to the European Commission with the sole view of establishing that they do