The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-07-18
THE TREATY OF BERLIN.
Partial Text of the Document.

ATt. 1. bulgaria Is COn6tlGuIeQ an automatic
tributary principalty under the suzerainty of
the Sultan, with Christian government and
national militia.
Art. Q. The principally is limited on the
south by the Balkans.
Art. 3. The Prince shall be elected by the
population and confirmed by the Porte and
the powers. No member of reigning Euro
pean dynasty shall be the Prince. In event Of
vacancy new Prince will be elected under
the same conditions.
Art. 4. The plan of government will be pre-
pared by an assembly of mobiles convoked at
Trnova, before the election of the Prince
The rights of Turks, Roumanians, Greeks and
others will be taken in account in whatever re-
lates to the election Or the Government.
Art. 5. The following shall form the basis of
the public law of Bulgaria Distinction of re-
llgious belief or confession shall not operate
against any one as reason of exclusion or in
capacity in what concerns the enjoyment of
political rights, admission to public employ
ment, functions of honor, OF the exercise of
different professions and industries. Liberty
OF public profession Of all creeds shall be as
sured to all the returned population of Bull
garia, as well as to strangers. No trammels
shall be imposed on the hierarchic organiza-
ton OF the different communions, or their re-
lation with their spiritual chiefs.
Art. 6. Until permanent organization is
completed, Bulgaria shall be governed by a
provisional organization directed by Prussian
Commissioners, who will be assisted by dele
gated Consuls Of the great powers.
Art. 7. The provisional Government shall
not be prolonged over nine months by which
time the organic Government will be settled
and a Prince elected.
Art. 8. The treaty of commerce, etc., be-
tween the Porte and others regarding Bulgaria
remain in force. The people and commerce of
all powers are to placed on footing of equality.
Art. g. The tribute to the Porte shall be set
tied by the signatOry powers at the end of the
first year of the new organization. Bulgaria
shall bear part of the public debt of the en-
pire.
Art 10. The principally shall carry out the
existing railway convention between Austro
Hungary, Servia and the Porte.
Art. II. The Ottoman army shall evacuate
Bulgaria. All fortresses shall be destroyed
within O. year, and new ones shall not be
erected.
Art IL. The Mussulmans who removed
from the principality can retain their real
property by allowing it to be administered by
third parties. A Turkish-Bulga commission
shall be engaged two years with the regulation
of all matters regarding the transfer OF State
properties and the religious foundation.
Art. Is. There is formed south of the Bal
kans the province of Eastern Roumelia, under
the direct political authority of the Sultan, hay
ing administrative autonomy and Christian
Governor General.
Art. IA. Fixing the limits, is missing.
Art. Is. The Sultan shall fortify the from
tiers, keep troops there, employ no irregulars,
nor quarter troops On the inhabitants. Inter-
nal order shall be preserved by native gen.
darmerie and local militia, in the composition
of which account shall be taken of the religion
of the inhabitants where they are stationed.
Art. 16. The Governor may call on Turkish
troops if security is menaced.
Art. II. The Governor shall be appointed for
five years by the Porte with the assent of the
powers.
Art is. A European commission shall deter
mine in three years the powers Of the Governor;
also the judicial, financial and administrative
requirements of the province
Arts. 10, 20 and 81. Provide that all interna-
tional arrangements applicable to ROumelia be
continued in force and insure religious liberty.
art. %. The Russian army in Bulgaria and
Roumelia shall not exceed 5O000. They shall
begin to evacuate the territory in nine months,
three months being allowed them to complete
the evacuation.
Art. %. Boznia and Herzegovina shall be
occupied and administered by Austro-H Hungary,
with the exception of the Sandjak of Now
Bazaar.
Art. "a. The independence of Montenegro is
recognized.
Art. Is. Applies the condition of Art S
respecting religious liberty to Montenegro.
Art. 26. Fixes the new frontiers of Monten-
egro.
Art. 81. Antivari is annexed to Montenegro.
No Notifications shall be constructed except to
protect Scutari. Montenegro shall have the
right OF free navigation of the Boyana, but
shall have no flag or ship of war. Antivari is
closed to the war ships of all nations. Spizza
is incorporated with Dalmatia. Consuls of
Austria shall protect the merchant flag of
Montenegro, the latter adopting The Dalmatian
maritime code.
Art. %. Prescribes for Montenegro the
same provisions as Art IL, except that the
Turko- Montenegrin Commission continues
Art. %. The Montenegrins shall evacuate
within twenty days the territory beyond the
new limits of the priucipality.
Art. 81. Montenegro shall bear a share of
the Turkish public debt propostionate to her
new territory.
Art. 81. The independence of servia is recog-
nized on the conditions prescribed in the fol-
lowing article.
Art. 80. Is repetition of article 5.
Art. 33. Laying down the new frontier OF
Servia, is missing.
Arts. "a and S. Provide that the present
commercial relations, ETC., of the principality
with foreign countries shall continue in force
until new arrangements are maze.
Arts. So and 81. Make the same provisions
for Mussulmans, public and private, as arti-
Gle %.
Art. 80. The Servians shall be allowed fifteen
days to evacuate territory not in the new limits
Art. 80. The tribute to Servia shall be cap
italized, the rate of capitalization to be ar
ranged by the powers with the Porte. Servia
shall bear her share of the Turkish debt pro-
portionate to the territory she acquires.
Art. 40. Independence of Roumania is fixed
on the conditions in the following
Art. Al. Is repetition of Art. 5, relating to
religious liberty.
Art. AZ. Roumania gives back to Russia that
part of Bessarabia taken under the Treaty of
Paris. ~ --.L -@f
Art. 43. Roumania receives the Dob1udseha
also territory south as far as line starting east
of Silistria and joining the Black sea south of
Mongolia. '.l"
& Art. "A. The lines of boundary and water
divisions shall be fixed by European Com
mission and the Danube Commission respec-
lively. .,.....,t
Arts. As, 46 and A. Continue the present COM
mercial relations of Roumania in force until
new arrangements are made. aH Ha
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