170 No. 98 APPENDIX ( Art. II . The boundary, as defined in Article I , shall be de limited and marked on the ground by a Joint Boundary Commis sion , which shall be nominated by the two High Contracting Parties, who shall notify the same to their subjects after de limitation .

Art. III . His Majesty the Emperor Menelek II , King of Kings of Ethiopia, engages himself towards the Government of His Britannic Majesty not to construct, or allow to be constructed , any work across the Blue Nile , Lake Tsana, or the Sobat which would arrest the flow of their waters into the Nile except in agreement with His Britannic Majesty's Government and the Government of the Sudan .

Art. IV . His Majesty the Emperor Menelek II , King ofKings of Ethiopia, engages himself to allow His Britannic Majesty's Government and the Government of the Sudan to select in the neighbourhood of Itang , on the Baro river, a block of territory having a river frontage of not more than 2,000 metres, in area not exceeding 400 hectares, which shall be leased to the Govern ment of the Sudan , to be administered and occupied as a com mercial station , so long as the Sudan is under the Anglo -Egyptian Government. It is agreed between the two High Contracting Parties that the territory so leased shall not be used for any political or military purpose.

Art. V. His Majesty the Emperor Menelek II , King of Kings of Ethiopia, grants His Britannic Majesty's Government and the Government of the Sudan the right to construct a railway through Abyssinian territory to connect the Sudan with Uganda .

A route for the railway will be selected by mutual agreement between the two High Contracting Parties.