Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-07-16

LONDON, July 15.-The following is the
substance of the treaty of peace concluded
by the Berlin congress:
Article /. Bulgaria is constituted an auto
matte tribu airy principally under suzeraiuty
of the sultan, with christian government
and national militia.
Article 2. The principally is limited on
the south by the Balkans.
Article j. The prince shall be elected by
the population and confirmed by the Porte
and powers. No member Of reigning Eu-
ropean dynasty shall be prince. In the event
of a vacancy a new prince will be elected
under the same conditions.
Article 4. The plan of government will be
prepared by an assembly of mobiles convoked
at Tirnova, before the election of prince
The rights of the Turks, Roumanians, Greeks
and others, will be taken in account in what
ever relates to election or government.
Article 5. The following shall form the
basis of the public law of Bulgaria.: Dis
tlnction of religious belief or confession shall
not operate against any one as reason of
exclusion or incapacity in what concerns the
enjoyment of political rights, admission to
public employment, functions or honors, or
the exercise of the different professions
and industries; liberty of public profession
of all creeds shall be assured to all the re-
turned population of Bulgaria, as well as to
strangers; no trammels shall be imposed on
the hierarchic organization OF the different
communions, or their relations with their
sp ritual chief.
Article b. Until permanent organization
is completed, Bulgaria shall be governed by
provisional organization, directed by Russian
commissioners, who will be assisted by the
delegated consuls of the great powers.
Article I. The provlsory government shall
not no 0rNlnnOrpd he h,y l,Inl,
time the organic government shall be settled
and prince elected.
Article s. Treaties of commerce, ETC., be-
tween the Porte and other powers regarding
Bulgaria remain in force. The people and
commerce of all the powers are to be placed
on footing of equality.
Article 8. The tribute to the Porte shall be
settled by the signatory powers at the end of
the first year of the new organization, and
Bulgaria shall bear part of the public debt of
the empire.
Article 10. The principally shall carry out
existing railway conventions between Aus
tria, Hungary, Servia and the Porte.
Article IL. The Ottoman army shall eyacuate
Bulgaria, and all the fortresses shall be de-
stroyed within year and new ones shall not
erected.
Article II. Mussulmans vino have removed
from the principalitles can retain their real
property by allowing it to be administered by
tnird parties. Turkish Bulgarian commits
sion shall be engaged for two years with the
regulation of all matters relative to the trans
fer of state properties and religious founda-
tons.
Balkans the province OF rIasrr,o, tb,,nf, t1ae
under the direct political authority of the
sultan, having administrative autonomy and
christian governor general
Article IA, fixing the limits, is MISSING.
Article Is. The sultan shall fortify the
frontiers, keep troops there, but employ nc
lrregulars nor quarter troops on the inhahi-
tants: Internal order shall be preserved by
native gems d'GrnseS and local militia, in the
composition of which account shall he taken
OF the religion OF the inhabitants where thew
are stationed, and the officers are to be
named by the sultan.
Article 10. The governor may call out the
Turkish troops if security is menaced.
Article II. The governor shall be appoint
e ef fGe h poy year' blythe Porte with the
Article Is. A European commission shall
determine, IN three years. the powers OF the
governor; also the judicial financial and adj
mlnistrative requirements of the province.
Articles ~, 70 and II provide that all inter-
national arrangements applicable to Roume-
la be continued in force and insure religious
liberty.
Article o. The Russian army in Bulgaria
and Roumeia shall not exceed fl fty thousand
ritory in nine months, three months being al
lowed them to complete the evacuation.
Article %. Bosnia and Herzegovina shall
be occupied and administered by Austro-
Hungary, with the exception of the Sandiak
of Now Bazaar
Article "a. The independence of Monte
negro is recognized.
D, respecting religious liberty, to Montenegro.
Article 26. Fixes the new frontiers of Mon
tenegro.
Article o. Antivari is annexed to Monte
negro, but no Notifications shall be con-
structed except to protect Scutari Monte
negro shall have the right of the free naviga-
ton OF the Boyana, but shall have no flag or
ship, of war. Antivari is closed to war ships
OF all nations. Spizza is Incorporated with
Dalmatia. The consuls of Austria shall pro-
tect the merchant flag of Montenegro, the
latter adopting the Dalmatian maritime |
code.
Article %. Prescribes for Montenegro the
same provisions as article IL, except that the |
Iurco- Montenegrin commission continues for |
three years.
Article %. The Montenegrns shall evacu- |
ate within twenty days the territory beyond |
he new limits of the principality.
Article 30. Montenegro shall bear share |
't the Turkish public debt proporuonate to
ler new territory.
recognized on the following prescribed condi-
ions.
Article b is repetition of article 5.
Article 80, laying down the new frontier of
'erva, is missing.
Articles "a and 35 provide that the present
commercial relations, ETC., of the principality
With foreign countries shall continue in force |
intll new arrangements are made.
Articles 36 and 81 make the same provision
or Mussulman property, private and public,
5 article q.
Article 30. The Servians shall be allowed
tteen days to eVacuate territory not in the
ew limits
Article 80. The tribute to Servia shall he
capitalized at the rate of capitalization to be
ranged by the powers with the Porte. Ser
la shall bear a share of the Turkish public
ebt, proportlonate to the territory she ac
uires.
Article 40. The independence of Roumania
fixed ON conditions in the following article.
Article Al Is repetition of article 5. re- |
Ihng to religious liberty.
Article AZ. Roumanla gives back to Rms | {
a that part of Bessarabia taken under the
eaty of Paris.
Article 43. Roumania receives Dobrudia.
so, the territory south as far as the line '
artlng, east OF Silstria and joining the Black t
"a south of Mongallia. {
Article A. The lines of boundary and q
alter division shall be fixed by the European t
'mmlsson and the Danube commission re- c
,ectivey.
Articles 10, as and AZ continue the present 8
numerical stations of Roumania in force a
1tll new arrangements are made.
Article 48. Tribute shall be capitalized at o
e rate arranged by the powers and the
orte.
article ~. Roufnania supercedes the Porte
All oohgatlons relating to public works in Fl
at principality. I,
Article 30; The fcrtifcations on the Dam e
re- from the iron gates to the mouth, shall &
raised; No ships of war shall navigate h
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