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 And His Majesty the King of Bavaria, the Sieur Augustus, Baron de Cetto, &c., &c.

Who, after having exchanged their full powers, found to be in good and due form, have agreed upon and signed the following Articles: —

I. The Courts of Great Britain, France, and Russia, duly authorized for this purpose by the Greek nation, offer the hereditary Sovereignty of Greece to the Prince Frederick Otho of Bavaria, second son of His Majesty the King of Bavaria.

II. ''His Majesty the King of Bavaria, acting in the name of his said son, a minor, accepts, on his behalf, the hereditary Sovereignty of Greece, on the conditions hereinafter settled. ''

III. The Prince Otho of Bavaria shall bear the title of King of Greece.

IV. Greece, under the sovereignty of the Prince Otho of Bavaria, and under the guarantee of the three Courts, shall form a monarchical and independent State, according to the terms of the Protocol signed between the said Courts, on the 3''rd of February, 1830, and accepted both by Greece and by the Ottoman Porte. ''

V. The three Courts of the Greek State shall be such as shall be definitely settled by the negotiations which the Courts of Great Britain, France, and Russia, have recently opened with the Ottoman Porte, in execution of the Protocol of the 26th of September, 1831.

VI. The three Courts having beforehand determined to convert the Protocol of the 3rd of February, 1830, into a definite Treaty, as soon as the negotiations relative to the limits of Greece shall have terminated, and to communicate such Treaty to all the States with which they have relations, it is hereby agreed that they shall fulfil this engagement, and that His Majesty the King of Greece shall become a Contracting Party to the Treaty in question.

VII. The three Courts shall, from the present moment, me their influence to procure the recognition of the Prince Otho