(Signed) Edward B. Malet.
Strauch.
On 5th February, 1885, was concluded a Convention with the French Republic.
Article 1. The International Association of the Congo hereby declares that it extends to France the privileges it has conceded to the United States of America, the German Empire, England, Italy, Austria-Hungary, the Netherlands, and Spain, in virtue of the Conventions which it concluded with those Powers respectively on the 22nd April, 8th November, 16th, 19th, 24th, and 29th December, 1884, and 7th January, 1885, the text of which is annexed to the present Convention.
Article 2. The Association engages moreover never to grant any privileges whatever to the subjects of any other nation without their being immediately extended to French citizens.
Article 3. The Government of the French Republic and the Association adopt as frontiers between their possessions:—
The River Chiloango from the ocean to its northernmost source;
The water-parting of the waters of the Niadi Quilloo and the Congo as far as beyond the meridian of Manyanga;
A line to be settled, which, following as far as possible some natural division of the land, shall end between the station of Manyanga and the cataract of the Ntombo Mataka, at a point situated on the navigable portion of the river;
The Congo up to Stanley Pool;
The centre of Stanley Pool;