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THE CONVENTION OF 24TH MAY, 1881.

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Arta, following the stream which carries off by the shortest way the rainfall from the summit of Mount Peristeri to this river, and passing near the villages of Kalarrhytes and Mikalitzi. Beyond these last points the line follows the thalweg of the River Arta to its mouth.

Delimitation.This delimitation will be fixed on the spot by a Commission composed of the Delegates of the Six Powers and of the two parties interested.

The Delimitation Commission will pass their Resolutions by a majority of votes, each power having but one vote.

It should meet within eight days after the ratification of the present Convention, or sooner if possible, so as to commence its labours^[1].

Punta.Art. II. Punta and its territory, as it was determined by the first Article of the Act signed at Constantinople on the 21st July, 1832^[2], will be ceded to Greece.

Gulf of Arta.All the fortifications commanding the entrance to the Gulf of Arta, both on the side of Prevesa as well as on that of Punta, will be disarmed within three months after the signature of this Convention^[3], and will remain disarmed in time of peace between the two States.

The navigation of the Gulf of Arta will be free.

Inhabitants of ceded territory.Art. III. The lives, property, honour, religion, and customs of those of the inhabitants of the localities ceded to Greece who shall remain under the Hellenic administration will be scrupulously respected. They will enjoy exactly the same civil and political rights as Hellenic subjects of origin.

Property.Art. IV. The rights of property on the farms, as well on the pasturages, meadows, grazing grounds ('kechlak'), forests, and every kind of lands or other real estate, held by private individuals and communes in virtue of firmans, hodjets, tapous,

↑ This Commission, on which Major Ardagh was the British representative, held its sittings partly in Greece and partly at Constantinople, from 6th July to 28th November, when its final Protocol was signed, the Turkish Commissioner signing under reserve as to four points in the new frontier (Parl. Papers, 1882, Greece, No. 1 ; N. R. G. 2^me Série, viii. 44). The questions thus left outstanding were eventually disposed of by a Protocol signed on behalf of Turkey and Greece in November, 1882. Cf. supra, p. 27.
↑ Supra, p. 14.
↑ This had been done by the beginning of November, 1881.

[1] This Commission, on which Major Ardagh was the British representative, held its sittings partly in Greece and partly at Constantinople, from 6th July to 28th November, when its final Protocol was signed, the Turkish Commissioner signing under reserve as to four points in the new frontier (Parl. Papers, 1882, Greece, No. 1 ; N. R. G. 2^me Série, viii. 44). The questions thus left outstanding were eventually disposed of by a Protocol signed on behalf of Turkey and Greece in November, 1882. Cf. supra, p. 27.

[2] Supra, p. 14.

[3] This had been done by the beginning of November, 1881.

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