The above Resolution of the Senate of the United States having been textually communicated in advance by the Government of Belgium to all the Signatory Powers of the General Act, the latter have assented to its insertion in the present Protocol which shall remain annexed to the Protocol of the 2nd February, 1892.
An official notification to this effect was made to the United States Minister.
The Ratification of the President of the United States having been found in good and due form, notification of its deposit was made to his Excellency Mr. Edwin H. Terrell. It will be retained in the archives of the Belgian Foreign Office.
On proceeding to the signature of the present Protocol the Minister for Foreign Affairs of His Majesty the King of the Belgians announced that the Representative of Russia, in his note expressing the assent of his Government, expressed the opinion that it was desirable that, in the Protocol, a French translation should accompany the English text of the Resolution of the Senate of the United States of America, and that, in any case, the absence of such translation should not form a precedent.
A certified copy of the present Protocol will be sent by the Belgian Government to the Signatory Powers of the General Act.
Done at Brussels the 2nd February, 1892.
The Minister for Foreign Affairs,
(Signed) Prince de Chimay.
The Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States of America,
(Signed) Edwin H. Terrell.
DISPATCH FROM HIS MAJESTY’S MINISTER AT BRUSSELS RESPECTING THE COMMISSION FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE NATIVES, INSTITUTED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF THE INDEPENDENT CONGO STATE UNDER THE DECREE OF SEPTEMBER 18, 1896
Sir C. Phipps to the Marquess of Lansdowne.—(Received May 19.)
(Extract.)