The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-07-17
GENERAL TELEGRAMS.
THE TREATY OF PEACE.
The Substance of the Articles as Agreed
TO by the Berlin Congress.


Article l. Bulgaria is constituted an auto
matte tributary principaity under the
suzerainty of the sultan, with Christian
government and a national militia
Article 2. The principality islimited on
the south by the Balkans.
Article 3. The prince shall be elected by
the population and confirmed by the porte
aud powers. No member of the relgning
European dynasty shall be prince. In the
event of a vacancy 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 the prince.
The rights of the Turks, the ROumanIans.
the Greeks and others will be taken IN &C
count in whatever relates to the election
or the government
Article 5. The following shall form the
basis of the public law of Bulgaria.: THE
distinction of religious belief or confession
shall not operate against anyone as a reason
of exclusion or incapacity in what concerns
the endowment of political rights, admission
to public employment. functions or honors
or the exercise of different professions and
industries. The liberty of public profession
of all creeds shall be assured 10 all the re-
turned population of Bulgaria, as well as to
strangers. No tran:mels shall be imposed ON
the hierarchic organization of different
communions or their relations with their
spiritual chiefs.
Article 6. Until permanent organization
is completed, Bulgaria shall be governed by
a provisional organization directed by a
Russian commissioner, who will be assisted
by the delegated consuls of the great powers
Article 7. The provisionary government
shall not be prolonged over nine months, by
which time the organic government shall be
settled and the prince elected.
Article g. The treaties of commerce, etc,
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ing Bulgaria shall remain in force. The
people and commerce of all the powers are
to be placed on a footing OF equality.
Article 9. The tribute OF the porte shall
be settled by the dignitary powers within
the first year Of the new organization. Bull
garia shall bear part of the public debt OF
the empire.
Article 10. The princlpality shall carry out
the expected railway connections between
Austria, Hungary, Servia and the porte.
Article H. The Ottoman army shall evac-
uate Bulgaria. All fortresses shall be de-
stroyed within year and new ones shall
not be erected.
Article II The Musselmans who removed
from the princIpality can retain their real
property by allowing it to be administered
by third parties. The Turkish-Bulgarian
commission shall be engaged two years with
the regulation of all matters relative to the
transfer of state properties and religious
foundations.
Article Is. There is formed south of the
Balkans the province of Eastern Roumelia,
under the direct political authority of the
sultan, having an administrative autonmy
and a Christian governor general.
Article a. fixing the limits is missing.
Article 10. The sultan shall fortify the
frontiers, keep troops there, employ no
irregulars nor quarter troops on the inhabi-
tants- International order shall be pre-
served by the native gems d'armes and
the local militia, in the composition OF
which account shall be taken of the religion
of the inhabitants where they stationed,
the officers to be named BY the sultan.
Article is. The governor may call on
Turkish troops if security is menaced-
Article II. The governor shall be appoint
ed for FIVE years by the porte, with the assent
of the powers.
Article Is The European commission
shall determine in three years the powers of
the governor, also the judicial, financial and
ince.
Articles 10, 20 and q provide that all in
ternatIonal arrangements applicable 10 Rou-
melia shall be continued in force and insure
religious liberty.
Article % The Russian army in Bulgaria
and ROumelia shall not exceed $4,000 men.
They shall begin to evacuate the territory in
nine months, three months being allowed
them TO complete the evacuation
Article %. Bosnia and Herzegovina shall
be occupied and administered by AustrO
Hungary, with the exception of Sandjsk of
Novi Bazaar.
Article "a The independence of Monte
negro is recognized.
Article % applies the conditions of arti-
Gle five respecting the religious liberty to
Montenegro.
Article 26 fixes new frontiers of Mon
tenegro.
Article 81. Antivari is annexed to Mon
ghol1 ho
structed except to protect Scutari. Mon
tenegro shall have the right of 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 Delmalia The consuls of Austria
shall protect the merchant flag Of Mon
tenegrO, the latter adopting the Delmaian
maritime code.
Article % prescribes for Montenegro the
same provisions article - except that
the Turko- Montenegrin commission con-
tinues three years.
uate within 20 days the territory beyond the
new limits of the principality.
Article 30. Montenegro shall bear the
share of the Turkish public debt proper
tionai to her new territory.
Article 81 The independence of Servia is
recognized on the conditions prescribed in
the following article.
Article 80 is q repetition of article five.
Article 80, laying down the new frontier
of Serv1a, is missing.
Articles "a and 80 provide that the present
commercial relations ETC., OF the prncipality
with foreign countries shall continue IN force
until new arrangements are made.
Articles 80 and 81 make the same provi-
sion for Mussulman property, private and
public, as article %.
Article IS. The Servians shall be allowed
Is days to eyacuate the territory not in the
new limits
Article SO. The tribute to Servia shall be
capitalized at the rate of capitalization to be
arranged by the powers with the porte. Ser
via shall bear a share of the Turkish public
debt proporti0nate TO the territory she &C
quires.
Article 40. The Independence of Rouma-
mia is fixed on the conditions in the follow
ing article.
Article Al is a repetition of article relat
ing TO religious liberty.