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anteeing Powers. There shall be no separate right of
interference in their internal affairs.

" ARTICLE .

" The Sublime Porte engages to preserve to the said
Principalities an independent and national administra-
tion, as well, as full liberty of worship, of legislation, of
commerce, and of navigation.
" The laws and statutes at present in force shall be
revised. In order to establish a complete agreement in
regard to such revision, a Special Commission, as to the
composition of which the High Contracting Parties will
come to an understanding among themselves, shall as-
semble, without delay, at Bucharest; together with a
Commissioner of the Sublime Porte.
"The business of the Commission shall be to investi-
gate the present state of the Principalities, and to pro-
pose bases for their future organisation.
ARTICLE
" His Majesty the Sultan proposes to convoke imme-
diately in each of the two Provinces a Divan ad hoc,
composed in such a manner as to represent most closely
the 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 Principa-
lities.

' "An instruction from the Congress shall regulate the
relations between the Commission and these Divans.

ARTICLE .

" Taking into consideration the opinion expressed by
the two Divans, the Commission shall transmit, without
delay, to the present seat of the Conferences, the result
of its own labours.
"Th© final agreement with the Suzerain Power shall
be recorded in :Convention to be concluded at Paris be-
tween the High Contracting Parties ; and a hatti-sherif,
in conformity with the stipulations of the Convention,
shall comtitute definitively, the organisation of those
Provinces, placed thenceforward under the collective
guarantee of all the signing Powers.

".EiRTICLE

"It is agreed that there shall be a national armed
force, organised with the view to maintain the security
of the interior, and to ensure that of the frontiers.
No impediment shall be opposed to the extraordinary
measures of defence which, by agreement with the Su-
blime Porte, the Principalities may be called upon to
take in order to repel any external aggression.

'' ARTICLE

"If the internal tranquillity of the Principalities should
be menaced or compromised, the Sublime Porte shall
come to an understanding with the other Contracting
Powers in regard to the measures to be taken for main-
taining or re-establishing legal order. No armed inter-
♦ention can take pace without previous agreement be-
tween those Powers."

Upon an observation made by the Earl of Clarendon,
it is understood that the finnan enjoining the convoca-
tion of the Divans ad hoc, shall be agreed upon with the
representatives of the Contracting Powers at Constanti-
nople, and he drawn up in such a mannertus to provide
for the full execution of the Article which determined the
composition of those assemblies.
Before the conclusion of the sitting, Count Walewski
observes that the greater part of the Articles of the
General Treaty having bsen decided on, and been in-
serted in the Protocols, the Congress might, at the next
sitting, pass iu review all the texts intended to form the
final document.