168 No. 98 APPENDIX ( And whereas grievous injustice is caused to the inhabitants of Suakin by the absence of any local jurisdiction for the settlement of their disputes , and it is expedient that the town of Suakin should be placed upon the same footing as the rest of the Sudan ; And whereas we have decided to modify our said Agreement accordingly in manner hereinafter appearing : Now , it is hereby agreed and declared by and between the undersigned , duly authorized for that purpose , as follows : Art . I. Those provisions of our Agreement of the 19th day of January , 1899 , by which the town of Suakin was excepted from the general régime established by the said Agreement for the future administration of the Sudan, are hereby abrogated.

Done at Cairo , the 10th July , 1899. CROMER . BOUTROS GAALI.

II DECLARATION COMPLETING THE CONVENTION OF JUNE 14 , 18981 (SPHERES OF INFLUENCE IN CENTRAL AFRICA) BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND FRANCE .

[ Signed at London, March 21 , 1899.] The undersigned , duly authorized by their Governments , bive signed the following Declaration : Article IV of the Convention of the 14th June , 1898 , shall be completed by the following provisions , which shall be considered as forming an integral part of it: 1. Her Britannic Majesty'sGovernment engages not to acquire either territory or political influence to the west of the line of frontier defined in the following paragraph, and the Government of the French Republic engages not to acquire either territory or political influence to the east of the same line .

2. The line of frontier shall start from the point where the boundary between the Congo Free State and French territory meets the water-parting between the watershed of the Nile and that of the Congo and its affluents . It shall follow in principle that water-parting up to its intersection with the 11th parallel of north latitude. From this point it shall be drawn as far as the 15th parallel in such manner as to separate , in principle , the 1 See Partition of Africa, No. 89 of this series. 2 This point is the source of the Mbomu river, practically on 50 of north latitude and about 27° 50' east longitude.