Bolgian ] 121 GENERAL ACT OF BERLIN II EXTRACTS FROM GENERAL ACT OF BERLIN CONFERENCE , FEBRUARY 26 , 1885 CHAPTER I. Declaration relative to Freedom of Trade in the Basin of the Congo , its mouths and circumjacent regions, with other provisions connected therewith . ART . 1. The trade of all nations shall enjoy complete free dom : 1. In all the regions forming the basin of the Congo and its outlets .

This basin is bounded by the watersheds (or mountain ridges) of the adjacent basins , namely , in particular, those of the Niari, the Ogowé , the Schari , and the Nile, on the north ; by the eastern watershed line of the affluents of Lake Tanganyika on the east ; and by the watersheds of the basins of the Zambezi and the Logé [Loje) on the south . It therefore comprises all the regions watered by the Congo and its affluents, including Lake Tanganyika , with its eastern tributaries.

2. In the maritime zone extending along the Atlantic ocean from the parallel situated in 2° 30 ' of south latitude to the mouth of the Logé .

The northern boundary will follow the parallel situated in the 2° 30 ' from the coast to the point where it meets the geographical basin of the Congo , avoiding the basin of the Ogowé , to which the provisions of the present Act do not apply.

The southern boundary will follow the course of the Logé to its source, and thence pass eastwards till it joins the geo graphical basin of the Congo .

3. In the zone stretching eastwards from the Congo basin as above defined to the Indian Ocean from the 5º of north latitude to the mouth of the Zambezi in the south , from which point the line of demarcation will ascend the Zambezi to five miles above its confluence with the Shiré, and then follow the watershed between the affluents of Lake Nyassa and those of the Zambezi, till at last it reaches the watershed between the waters of the Zambezi and the Congo .

It is expressly recognized that in extending the principle of free trade to this eastern zone the Conference Powers only undertake engagements for themselves, and that in the