Bessarabia Art. XLV. The Principality of Roumania restores to His Majesty the Emperor of Russia that portion of the Bessarabian territory detached from Russia by the Treaty of Paris of 1856, bounded on the west by the mid-channel of the Pruth,and on the south by the mid-channel of the Kilia branch and the Stary-Stamboul mouth[1].
Islands. Art. XLVI. The islands forming the Delta of the Danube, as well as the Isle of Serpents, the Sandjak of Toultcha, comprising the districts (cazas) of Kilia, Soulina Mahmoudie, Isaktcha, Toultcha, Matchin, Babadagh, Hirsovo, Kustendje, Dobroutcha. Medjidie, are added to Roumania[2]. The Principality receives in addition the territory situated to the south of the Dobroutcha as far as a line starting from the east of Silistria and terminating on the Black Sea, south of Mangalia.
The frontier line shall he determined on the spot by the European Commission appointed for the delimitation of Bulgaria[3].
Waters. Art. XLVII. The question of the division of the waters and the fisheries shall be submitted to the arbitration of the European Commission of the Danube.
Dues. Art. XLVIII. No transit duties shall be levied in Roumania on goods passing through the Principality.
Foreigners. Art. XLIX. Roumania shall have power to make Conventions to determine the privileges and attributes of Consuls in regard to protection within the Principality. Existing rights shall remain in force so long as they shall not have been modified by the mutual consent of the Principality and the parties concerned[4].
Roumanians in the Ottoman Empire. Art. L. Until the conclusion of a Treaty between Turkey and Roumania, fixing the privileges and attributes of Consuls, Roumanian subjects travelling or residing in the Ottoman Empire, and Ottoman subjects travelling or residing in
- ↑ The retrocession having been voted by the Roumanian Chambers, the Russian Commissioners entered Bessarabia on 13th October, 1878.
- ↑ The Roumanian troops entered the Dobroutcha from Ibraila on 26th November, 1878.
- ↑ Cf. note to Art. 2, supra, p. 280.
- ↑ Russia had partially relinquished her rights of Consular jurisdiction in Roumania on 29th November, 1869. A Treaty of Commerce was made with Roumania by Great Britain on 5th April, 1880, N. R. G. 2me Série, 451.
