STATE PAPERS. 
Power shall regulate the forms of 
convocation of a Legislative As- 
sembly, of which he shall direct 
the proceedings, in order to draw 
up a New Constitutional Charter 
for the States, which his Majesty 
the King of the United kingdom 
of Great Britain and Ireland shall 
be requested to ratify. 
Untilsuch Constitutional Char- 
ter shall have been so drawn up, 
and duly ratified, the existing 
constitutions shall remain in force 
in the different islands, and no 
alteration shall be made in them, 
except by his Britannic Majesty 
in Council. 
Art. V.—In order to ensure with- 
out restriction to the inhabitants 
of the United States of the Ionian 
Islands, the advantages resulting 
from the high protection under 
which. these states are placed, as 
well as for the exercise of the 
rights inherent in the said protec- 
tion, his Britannic Majesty shall 
have the right to occupy the for- 
tresses and places of those States, 
and to maintain garrisons in the 
same. The military force of the 
said United States shall also be 
under the orders of the Comman- 
der in Chief of the troops of his 
Britannic Majesty. 
. Art. VI.—His Britannic Majesty 
consents, that a particular Con- 
vention with the Government of 
the said United States shall regu- 
late, according to the revenues 
of those States, every thing which 
may relate to the maintenance 
of the fortresses already existing, 
as well as to the subsistence and 
payment of the British garrisons, 
and to the number of men of 
which they shall be composed in 
time of peace. 
The same Convention shall like- 
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wise fix the relations which are 
to exist between the said armed 
force and the Ionian Government. 
Art, VII.—The Trading Flag of 
the United States of the Ionian 
Islands shall be acknowledged by 
all the contracting parties as the 
flag of a free and independent 
State. It shall carry with the 
colours, and above the armorial 
bearings thereon displayed before 
the year 1807, such other as his 
Britannic Majesty may think pro- 
per to grant, asa mark of the 
protection under which the said 
Jonian States are placed, and for 
the more effectual furtherance of 
this protection, all the ports and 
harbours of the said States are 
hereby declared to be, with re- 
spect to the honorary and mi- 
litary rights, within British juris- 
diction. The commerce between 
the United Ionian States and the 
dominions of his Imperial and 
Royal Apostolic Majesty shall en- 
joy the same advantages and faci- 
lities as that of Great Britain with 
the said United States. None but 
Commercial agents or Consuls 
charged solely with the carrying 
on commercial arrangements, and 
subject to the regulations to 
which Commercial Agents or 
Consuls are subject in other in- 
dependent States, shall be accre- 
dited to the United States of the 
Ionian Islands. 
Art. VIII.— All the Powers which 
signed the Treaty of Paris of the 
30th May, 1814, and the Act 
of the Congress of Vienna of 
the 9th of June, 1815; and also 
his Majesty the King of the Two 
Sicilies, and the Ottoman Porte, 
shall be invited to accede to the 
present Convention. 
Art. [X,—The present act shall 
