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ARTICLE 24.

His Majesty the Sultan promises to convoke imme-
diately, in each of the two provinces, a divan ad hoc, com-
posed in such a manner as to constitute the most exact
representation of the interests of all classes of society.
These divans are to give expression to the wishes of the
populations relative to the definitive organisation of the
principalities. An instruction of the Congress will regu-
late the relations of the commission with these divans.

ARTICLE 25.
Taking into consideration the opinion expressed by the
two divans, the commission will, without delay, transmit
the result of its own labours to the present seat the
Conferences. The final understanding with the suzerain
power will be recorded (consacrie) in a convention con-
cluded at Paris between the high contracting parties, and
a Hatti•Scheriff conformable to the stipulations of the con-
vention will definitively constitute the organisation of
these provinces—placed henceforth under the collective
guarantee of all the powers parties to the treaty.

ARTICLE 26.

It is agreed that there shall be in the principalities an
armed national force organised with the object of main-
taining the security of the interior, and assuring that of
the frontiers. No impediment (entrave) is to be placed in
the way of such extraordinary measures of defence, as, in
accordance with the Sublime Porte, the principalities may
be under the necessity of taking (seraient appeles d prendre)
to repulse any foreign aggression.

ARTICLE 27.
If the internal tranquilhty of the principalities should be
menaced or compromised, the Sublime Porte will come to
an understanding with the other contracting powers, as to
the measures to be taken to maintain or re-establish legal
order. No armed intervention can take place without a
previous accord with these powers.

ARTICLL 28.
The principality of Servia will continue to be dependent
upon (a relever de) the Sublime Porte conformably to the
Imperial Harts, which fix and determine its rights and
immunities placed henceforth under the collective guaran-
tee of the contracting powers.
In consequen3e the said principality will preserve its
independent and national administration, as well as full
liberty of worship, legislation, commerce, and navigation.

ARTICLE 29.

The right of garrison of the Sublime Porte, such as is
stipulated for by anterior regulations, is maintained. No
armed intervention is to take place in Servis without a
previous accord between all the contracting powers.
AILTICLE 30.
His Majesty the Emperor of all the Pansies and his
Majesty the Sultan keep in its integrity the state of their
possessions in Asia, such as it existed legally before the
rupture.
In order to prevent any local contest, the boundary of
the frontier will be verified, and if need be rectified, but so
as that no territorial prejudice shall result to either of the
two parties from any such rectification.
With this view a mixed commission composed of two
Russian commissioners, two Ottoman commissioners, one
French commissioner, and one English commissioner,
shall be sent to the locality cur lee lima-) immediately
after the re-establishment of diplomatic relations between
the Court of Russia and the Sublime Porte. The labours
of this commission are to be terminated within the space
of eight months, dating from the exchange of ratifications
of the present treaty.

ARTICLE 31.
The territories occupied during the war by the troops of
their Majesties the Emperor of the French, the Emperor
of Austria, the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, and the King of Sardinia, under the
terms of the Conventions signed at Constantinople on
March 12, 1854, between France, Great Britain, and the
Sublime Porte, the 14th of June of the same year between
Austria and the Sublime Porte, and the 15th of March,
18.55, between Sardinia and the Sublime Porte, shall be
evacuated as soon as possible (auuilot gee faire se puurra)
after the ratifications of the present treaty. The time
within which the evacuation is to be effected (lea details)
and the means of execution will be the subject of a con-
vention between the Sublime Porte and the powers
whose troops occupy the territories.

ARTICLE 32.

Until the treaties or conventions which existed before
the war between the belligerent powers shall have been
renewed or replaced by new acts, the commerce of impor-
tation and exportation shall go on reciprocally upon the
footing of the rules in force before the war, and their sub-
jects shall in all other respects (en Mute mare maniere)
be respectively treated upon the footing of the most favored
nation.

ARTICLE 33.

The Convention concluded this day between their
Mijeaties the Emperor of the French, the Queen of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland of the one
part, and his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russian of
the other part, relative to the Aland Isles, is and remains
annexed to the present treaty, and shall have the same
force and value as if it had made part of it.

ARTICLE 84.

The present treaty shall he ratified, and the ratifications
shall be exchanged at Paris within the space of four weeks,
or sooner, if possible.
In faith of which the respective Plenipotentiaries have
signed it and have hereto affixed the seal of their arms.

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