124 [ No. 99 APPENDIX hostilities to the territories thus neutralized , and from using them as a base for warlike operations.

ART. 12. In case a serious disagreement originating on the subject of , or in the limits of, the territories mentioned in Art . 1 and placed under the free trade system shall arise between any signatory Powers of the present Act, or the Powers which may become parties to it , these Powers bind themselves before appealing to arms to have recourse to the mediation of one or more of the friendly Powers . In a similar case the same Powers reserve to themselves the option of having recourse to arbitration .

III > DECLARATION SIGNED AT BRUSSELS , JULY 2 , 1890, MODI FYING ARTICLE VI OF THE GENERAL ACT OF BERLIN The signatories or acceding Powers who have possessions or protectorates in the said conventional basin of the Congo shall be able , so far as authority is required to this end, to establish duties upon imported goods , the scale of which shall not exceed a rate equivalent to 10 per cent . ad valorem at the port of entry , always excepting spirituous liquors, which are regulated by the provisions of Chapter VI of the General Act of this day .

[By Declaration of June 15 , 1910 , Powers ' which have possessions or protectorates in the conventional basin of the Congo are authorized , so far as such authorization is necessary, to impose therein upon imported arms and munitions, duties exceeding the maximum limit of 10 per cent . at the port of importation fixed by the aforesaid Declaration '. The liquor duties are fixed by the Brussels Convention of November 3 , 1906.] > IV DECLARATION , PORTUGAL AND THE CONGO , MARCH 24 , 1894 Following the thalweg of the Kwango (Cuango) from the 8th parallel as far as its confluence with the Tungila (Utun guila) 8° 7 ' 40" south latitude approx .; the thalweg of the Tungila (Utunguila ) as far as its intersection with the canal through which pass the waters of the Lola ; the thalweg of the same canal as far as its junction with the Komba, 8 ' west