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ARTICLE 17.

A commission shall be established, and shall be composed
of delegates of Austria, Bavaria, the, Sublime Porte, and
Wurtemberg, (one for each of those Powers), to whom shall be
added commissioners from the three Danubian Principalities,
whose nomination shall have been approved by the Porte.
This commission, which shall be permanent: 1. Shall prepare
regulations of navigation and river police ; 2. Shall remove
the impediments, of wha,tover nature they be, which still pre-
vent the application to the Danube of the arrangements of
the treaty of Vienna ; 3. Shall order and cause to be exe-
cuted the necessary works throughout the whole course of
the river; and 4, snail, after the dissolution of the European
Uommissiou, see to maintaining the mouths of the Danube-
and the neighbouring parts of the sea iu a navigable state.

ARTICLE 18,
It is understood that the European Commission shall have
completed its task, and that the River Commission shall have
finished the works described iu the preceding article, udder
Nus. 1 and 2, within the period of two years. The signing
Powers assembled in Conference,having been in/mined of tha
fact, shall, after having placed it on record, pronounce the
dissolution of the European Conunissiou, and from that time
the permanent River Co omission shall enjoy the same
powers as those with which the European Commission shall
have until then been invested.
ARTICLE 19.

In order to insure the exezutiouof the regulations which
shall have been established by cowmen agreement, in con-
formity with the principles above declared, each of the con-
tracting Powers shall have the to station, all times,
two light vessels at the mouths of the Danube.

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In exchange for the towns, itorl,-s, and territories enume-
rated in Article 4 of the present treaty, and in order more
fully to secure the freedom of the navigation of the Danube,
his
.Iditjesty the Emperor of all the Russias consent's to. the
rectification'of his frontier in Bessarabia.
The new frontier shall begin froM the Black Sea, one kilo-
metre to tue cast of the Lake Bourne, Sola, shall run perpen-
dicularly to the'Akcrman road, shall folloW that road to the
Val de Trajau, -pass -to the south of Bolgrad, ascend the
course of the river Yalpuck to the Haight of Saratsika, and
termivate at Katamori on the •Pi:uth. Above that point the
old frontier between the two empires shall not undergo any
modification

Delegates of the contracting Powers shall fix, in its details,
the line of the new frontier.

Auncrese2l.
The territory ceded by Ruism. shall be anntted to the Pein-
eipality of Moldavia under the suzerainty of the Sublime
Porte.

The inhabitants of that territory shall enjoy the rigiFts and
privileges s,lcurod to the Principalities; and, during the
space of three years, they shall be permitted to transfer their
domicile elsewhere, dispo•ing freely of their property. .
ARTICLE 22.
The Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia shall con-
tinue to enjoy under the suzerainty of the Porte, and under
the guarantee of the contracting Powers, the privileges and
immunities of which they are in possession. No exclusive
protection shall be exercised over them by any of the guaran-
teeing Powers. There shall be no separate right of inter-
ference in their internal affairs. •

ARTICLE 23.
The Sublime Porte engages to preserve to the said Princi-
palities an independent. and national administration, as well
as full liberty of worship, of legislation, of commerca, and of
navigation.

The laws and statutes at present in force shall be revised.,
Ia order to establish a complete agreement in regard to such
revision, a special commission, as to the composition of which
the high contracting Powers will come to an understanding
among themselves, shall assemble, without delay, at Bucharest,
together with a commissioner of the Sublime Porte.
The business of this commission shall be to iuves igate the
present state of the Principalities, and to propose bases for
their future organisation.

ARTICLE 24.

His Majesty the Sultan prop .ses to convoke immediately in
each of tin) two provinces a divan ad hoc, composed in such a
manner as to represent most closely V° interests of all classes
of society. These divans shall be called upon to express the
wishes of the people in regard to the definitive organisation
of the Principalities.
An instruction from the Congress shall regulate th 3 rela-
tions between the commission and these divans.