of the said United States shall also be under the orders of the Commander-in-Chief of the troops of his Britannic Majesty.

ARTICLE VI.

His Britannic Majesty consents, that a particular convention with the Government of the said United States shall regulate, according to the revenues of those States, everything which may relate to the maintenance of the fortresses already existing, as well as the subsistence and payment of the British garrisons, and the number of men of which they shall be composed in time of peace.

The same convention shall likewise fix the relations which are to exist between the said armed force and the Ionian Government.

ARTICLE VII.

The trading flag of the United States of the Ionian Islands shall be acknowledged by all the contracting parties, as the flag of a free and independent State. It shall carry with the colours, and above the armorial bearings thereon displayed before the year 1807, such other as his Britannic Majesty may think proper to grant, as a mark of the protection under which the said Ionian States are placed; and for the more effectual furtherance of this protection, all the ports and harbours of the said States are hereby declared to be, with respect to the honorary and military rights, within British jurisdiction. The commerce between the United Ionian States and the dominions of his Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty shall enjoy the same advantages and facilities as that of Great Britain

with the said United States. None but commercial agents or Consuls charged solely with the carrying on commercial arrangements, and subject to the regulations which commercial agents or Consuls are subject to in other independent States, shall be accredited to the United States of the Ionian Islands.

ARTICLE VIII.

All the powers which signed the Treaty of Paris of the 30th May, 1814, and the Act of the Congress of Vienna of the 9th June, 1815; and also his Majesty the King of the Two Sicilies, and the Ottoman Porte, shall be invited to accede to the present Convention.

ARTICLE IX.

The present Act shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged in two months, or sooner if possible.

In witness whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed it, and have affixed thereunto the seal of their

arms.

Done at Paris, the 5th day of November, in the year of our Lord 1815.

Signed (L.S) CASTLEREAGH.

(L.S.) WELLINGTON.

Signed (L.S.) LE PRINCE DE RASOUMOFFSKY. (L.S.) LE COMTE CAPODISTRIA.

G.

Constitutional Chart of the United States of the Ionian Islands.

CHAPTER I.

GENERAL ORGANIZATION.

Art. 1st. The United States of the Ionian Islands are composed of Corfú, Cephalonia, Zante, Santa Maura, Ithaca, Cerigo, and Paxo, and the other smaller islands situated along the coast of Albania and the Morea, which formerly belonged to the Venetian dominions.

Art. 2nd. The seat of the General Government of the United States of the Ionian Islands is declared to be permanently fixed in the capital of the Island of Corfu.

Art. 3rd. The established religion of these States is the orthodox Greek religion, but all other forms of the Christian religion shall be protected as hereinafter stated.

Art. 4th. The established language of these States is the Greek; and in consequence, it is hereby declared to be an article of primary importance, that the language of the nation should become, as soon as possible, that in which all the records of Government should be held, all process of law alone conducted; and, in fact, the sole recognized language for official proceedings within these States.

Art. 7th. The Civil Government in these States shall be composed of a Legislative Assembly, of a Senate, and of a Judicial Authority.

Art. 8th. The military command in these States, being placed, by the Treaty of Paris, in the hands of

his Majesty's Commander-in-Chief, it remains with him.

Art. 23rd. The public instruction of youth being one of the most important points connected with the prosperity and happiness of any State, and it being of the utmost importance, both to the morals and religion of the country, that its pastors in particular should receive a liberal and adequate education, it is hereby declared to be a primary duty, immediately after the meeting of Parliament, subsequent to the ratification of this Constitutional Chart of his Majesty the protecting Sovereign, that measures should be adopted by the Parliament for the institution, in the first place, of primary schools, and subsequently for the establishment of a college for the different branches of science, of literature, and of the fine arts.

CHAPTER II.

THE SENAT E.

SECTION 1.

Art. 1st. The executive power in the United States of the Ionian Islands shall be vested in a Senate composed of six persons, viz. : five members and a president.

SECTION II.

Art. 1st. The nomination of his Highness the President of the Senate of the United States of the Ionian Islands, is conceded to his Majesty the protecting Sovereign, through the medium of his Lord High Commissioner, he being a natural born subject of the Ionian States.

Art. 2nd. The most illustrious the senators shall be elected by the members, and out of the body of the Legislative Assembly, in the proportion and manner following Island of Corfú, one; Island of Cephalonia, one; Island of Zante, one; Island of Santa Maura, one; Islands of Paxo, Ithaca, and Cerigo, one.

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Art. 3rd. The power of placing an individual of the Legislative Assembly in nomination as a senator, to be voted on by the members of the Legislative Assembly, shall be vested in the most illustrious the President of that Assembly, under the following restrictions:

1st. He shall place no person in nomination to be voted on, where an application has not been made to him in writing, signed at least by four members of that body, and himself demanding such nomination.

2nd. He shall place in nomination any person where eight members of the said Assembly make a similar demand; and upon the members so nominated, the Legislative Assembly shall proceed to vote, vivá voce, and the majority of votes taken down in writing by the secretaries, shall decide the election, the most illustrious the President of the Legislative Assembly, or, in his absence or indisposition, the member executing his functions, having, in the event of equality of votes, the casting vote.

Art. 6th. In the event of his Excellency the Lord High Commissioner of the protecting Sovereign approving of the election, the senator so elected shall be the senator for the island or islands for which he is chosen. In the event of a negative from his Excellency the Lord High Commissioner of the protecting Sovereign, the election shall fall to the ground; and the Legislative Assembly shall forthwith. proceed to the election of another member of their own body, in manner and form as already prescribed.