298 Agreetatnts {Fratm- -Congo), 14.8.9i : niul {rtahj—Ah/nmila), 10.7.00.

Justice and ex-Minister of the Interior and Education of His Majesty the King of the Belgians, Vice-President of the Supreme Council of the Congo Free State, etc. ; and Baron Constant Goffinet, etc., Plenipotentaries of the French Republic and of the Congo Free State, deputed to prepare an agreement relative to the boundaries of the respective possessions of the two states and to settle the other questions pending between them, have agreed upon the following provisions : — Boundary between the Congo Free State and French Congo, Ovbanghi, etc.

Art. 1. The frontier between the Congo Free State and the Colony of French Congo, after following the thalweg of the Oubanghi up to the confluence of the Mbomou* and of the Quelle (or Welle), shall be constituted as follows : — (1) The thalweg of the Mbomou up to its source. (2) A straight line joining the watershed between the Congo and Nile Basins. From this point the frontier of the Free State is constituted by the said watershed up to its intersection with long. 30° east of Greenwich (27° 40' east of Paris).

Arts. 2 and 3. French right of Police over the waters of the Mbomou. Renunciation by Free State of Occupation or Influence over certain Districts. Watershed of Congo and Nile Basins, etc.

Art. 4. The Free State binds herself to renounce all occupation, and to exercise in the future no political influence west or north of a line thus determined : — Long. 30° east of Greenwich (27 40' east of Paris), starting from its intersection of the watershed of the Congo and Nile Basins, up to the point where it meets the parallel 5° 30', and then along that parallel to the Nile.

Art. 5. Ratifications to be exchanged within three months. Art. 6. In token of which the Plenipotentiaries have drawn up the present arrangement and affixed their signatures. Given at Paris in duplicate, August 14, 1894.

G. HANOTAUX. J. HAUSSMANN. J. DEVOLDER. BARON GOFFINET.

(Approved by the Government of the French Republic, by Law of 21st December, 1894.)

(19.) AGREEMENT re FRONTIER ERITREA-ABYSSINIA. {With Map.) In the name of the Holy Trinity : His Majesty King Humbert I of Italy, and His Majesty Menelik II, King of Kings of Ethiopia, being desirous of settling the question of the frontier between Eritrea and Ethiopia, which was left unsettled at the conclusion of the Peace Treaty of Addis Abbaba of the 26th October, 1896, have agreed to conclude the following Convention.

Art. I. The line Tomat-Todluc-Mareb-Belesa-Muna, traced on the attached map, is acknowledged by the two contracting parties as the frontier between Eritrea and Ethiopia.

Art. It. The Italian Government hereby binds itself not to cede or sell to another Power, the territory lying between the line Tomat-Todluc-Mareb-Mai Ambessa-Mai Feccia-Mai Maretta-Mai Ha-Mahio-Plain of Pharaoh's hens (I) and the line Tomat-Todluc-Mareb-Belesa-Muna, given by his Majesty Menelik II, King of Kings of Ethiopia, to Italy.

His Majesty Menelik II, King of Kings of Ethiopia, in his own name, his heirs and successors, and Captain Ciccodicola, in the name of His Majesty Humbert I, King of Italy, his heirs and successors, have with willingness and accord agreed to and written this Convention in Italian and Amharic, considering both as official (in case of error, however, in the writing, the Emperor Menelik will adhere to the Amharic text), and having approved of same they have affixed their seals thereto.

Written at the City of Addis Abbaba, this 10th day of July, 1900.

(Signed) Seal of the EMPEROR MENELIK. (Signed) Capt. FREDERICK CICCODICOLA.

Representative of II. M. the King of Italy.

(1) Line proposed by the Emperor Menelik to Major Nerazzini in 1897. (20.)t Berlin Act, 26.2.85 : Free Trade in Congo Basin, etc. (21. )t BRUS.SEL8 Act, 2.7.90 (in force since 2.4.94) : Slave Trade, Firearms, Ammunition, etc. Amongst others, Great Britain, France, Italy, Russia, Turkey, and Abyssinia are Signatories.

♦ According to Junker's map (Gotha, J. Perthes, 1H88). t Not printed here, but text may be found in Uertslet's "Map of Africa by Treaty," 1896 Edition, pp. 20 to 47, and pp. 48 to 10(5 respectively.