SABDERAT AGREEMENT.
Between the undersigned:—Colonel John Collinson, C.B., Mudir of Kassala, on the part of the Anglo-Egyptian Government, and Chevalier Ferdinando Martini, Royal Commissioner of Eritrea, on the part of the Government of His Majesty the King of Italy, have agreed to the following Convention:—
ARTICLE I.
From the 1st March, 1901, “The Parsons-Martini Convention” regarding the question of pasturage[222] in the territory of the Erithrean Government signed at Asmara on the 7th of December, 1898, is abrogated.
ARTICLE II.
Each Government reserves to itself to permit or forbid the temporary emigration into its territory of tribes, or fractions of tribes, who desire to enter its territory for the purpose of pasturage of their flocks and herds, and reserves to itself the conditions under which such permission will be granted.
ARTICLE III.
When temporary permission for grazing is given under Article II of this Convention, it is to be understood that those persons to whom such permission is given, are, from the time they cross the frontier, amenable to the laws at that time in force in the country they enter.
Made at Sabderat in duplicate in Italian and English this twenty-eighth day of February, 1901.
| (Signed) | J. COLLINSON, Colonel, Mudir, Kassala. |
| MARTINI. |