tre dispenses du stage:

(_a_) Ceux qui auront introduit dans le pays des industries, des
inventions utiles, ou qui possederont des talents distingues, ceux qui
auront fonde de grands etablissements de commerce ou d'industrie.

(_b_) Ceux qui, nes et eleves dans le pays, de parents y etablis,
n'auront jamais joui, ni les uns ni les autres, d'une protection
etrangere.

(_c_) Ceux qui auront servi sous les drapeaux pendant la Guerre de
l'Independance, lesquels pourront etre naturalises d'une maniere
collective, sur la proposition du Gouvernement, par une seule Loi et
sans autre formalite.

3. La naturalisation ne peut etre accordee que par la Loi, et
individuellement.

4. Une Loi speciale determinera, le mode d'apres lequel les etrangers
pourront etablir leur domicile en Roumanie.

5. Les Roumains ou ceux qui seront naturalises Roumains pourront
acquerir des immeubles ruraux en Roumanie. Les droits deja acquis seront
respectes. Les Conventions Internationales actuellement existantes
restent en vigueur, avec toutes leurs clauses et jusqu'a l'expiration de
leur duree.

(_Ibid._, lxxi. 1176-77.)

* * * * *

THE COMPACT WITH RUMANIA (1880).

_English Text of Identic Note presented to the Roumanian Government,
February 20, 1880._

The Undersigned, British Representative at Bucharest, has the honour, by
order of his Government, to convey to M. Boeresco, the Minister for
Foreign Affairs of Roumania, the following communication:--

Her Britannic Majesty's Government have been informed, through the Agent
of His Royal Highness the Prince of Roumania at Paris, of the
promulgation, on the 25th October, 1879, of a Law, voted by the
"Chambres de Revision" of the Principality, for the purpose of bringing
the text of the Roumanian Constitution into conformity with the
stipulations inserted in Article XLIV of the Treaty of Berlin.

Her Majesty's Government cannot consider the new Constitutional
provisions which have been brought to their cognizance--and particularly
those by which persons belonging to a non-Christian creed domiciled in
Roumania, and not belonging to any foreign nationality, are required to
submit to the formalities of individual naturalization--as being a
complete fulfilment of the views of the Powers signatories of the Treaty
of Berlin.

Trusting, however, to the determination of the Prince's Government to
approximate more and more, in the execution of these provisions, t