The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-20
Important Treaty Between Great
Britain and Egypt.
PERMANENT OCCUPATION
TWO GOVERNMENTS TO ENJOY
EQUAL RIGHTS.
Conquered Territory to Be Governed
By a Governor General, Appointed
By the Khedive, With the Con-
sent Of Great Britain-AbsoIute
Power to Make Laws.

Cairo, Jan. 19-The Official Gazette
today publishes a convention between
Great Britain and Egypt relating to the
future government of reconquered
Soudan provinces.
After reciting that the provinces
We're reconquered by the joint military
and financial efforts of the British and
khedival governments, and setting
forth the desire TO give effect to the
claims that have accrued to her Brit
tanlc maJesty'S government by right Of
conquest, the claim TO share in the
present settlement and future working
and development of the administration
OF the territories and pointing out that
the territories Of Wadi Halfa and Sua-
kim may be most effectively admins
tered in conjunction with the recon-
quered provinces, the convention pro-
ceeds as follows:
1t is hereby agreed and declared by
the undersigned, duly authorized, that
the word Soudan in this agreement
means all the territories south of the
twenty-secOnd parallel of '>latitude
which has been vacated by the Egypt
ian troops since 1882, or which, having
been administered by the khedive's
government prior to the late-rebellion,
were temporarily lost to Egypt and
have been recOnquered by the British
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concert, or which may hereafter be re-
conquered by the two governments
acting in concert.
The British and Egyptian flags shall
be used together on both land and
water throughout the Soudan, except
Suakim, where the Egyptian flag alone
shall be used
The supreme military and civil
command in the Soudan shall be vested
in one officer, termed the governor
general. appointed by khedival decree,
with the consent of Great Britain. and
to be removed only by khedival de-
cree, with the consent of Great Brit
aim
The next clause gives the governor
general absolute power to make alter
or abrogate by proclamation. laws. or
ders or regulations for the good gov
eminent of the Soudan. and for the
regulation, holding and disposal of
property of every kind situated in the
SOudan, but all such proclamations
must forthwith be notified to the agent
of her Britannia majesty at Cairo and
to the president of the khedival coun-
Gil. No Egyptian law. decree or en-
actment hereafter made or promulgat-
ed is to apply to any part of the Sou
dan save by the proclamation of the
governor general.
Regarding the conditions under which
Europeans shall be permitted to trade,
reside or hold property in the Soudan,
the convention SAYS:
No special privileges shall be ac-
corded the subjects of any one or moro
powers. Import duties shall not be
levied on goods from Egyptian terri
tory. but they shall be leviable on
goods from elsewhere. In the case of
goods entering the Soudan- at Suallim
or any other Red sea port, the duties
must not exceed the amount leviable
upon foreign goods entering Egypt.
Duties may be levied upon goods leav-
ing the Soudan, the rates to be pre-
scribed by proclamation"
The convention provides that the
jurisdiction of mixed tribunals shall ap-
ply to no part Of the Soudan except
Suakim, and the whole Soudan. except
Suakim, shall remain under martial
law until the governor general pro-
claims otherwise. No consular agents
shall be accredited to or allowed to re-
side in the Soudan without the previ-
Gus consent of Great Britain. The i'm
portation or expectation of slaves is
absolutely prohibited.
The convention. which is dated at
Cairo, Jan. IS, 1899, is signed by the
khedival minister of foreign affairs.
Boutros Pasha Ghali, and by Lord
Cromer, British agent and consul in
Egypt.