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be instituted for the purpose of 

 substantiating the claims, shall 

 form the subject of a special 

 Agreement between the two Gov- 

 ernments. 



ARTICLE IV. 



His Britannic Majesty's Gov- 

 ernment, recognizing that, in ad- 

 dition to the indemnity referred 

 to in the preceding Article, some 

 territorial compensation is due to 

 France in return for the sur- 

 render of her privilege in that 

 part of the Island of Newfound- 

 land referred to in Article II, 

 agree with the Government of the 

 French Republic to the provisions 

 embodied in the following Arti- 

 cles: 



ARTICLE V. 



The present frontier between 

 Senegambia and the English Col- 

 ony of the Gambia shall be modi- 

 fied so as to give to France Yar- 

 butenda and the lands and land- 

 ing-places belonging to that lo- 

 cality. 



In the event of the river not 

 being open to maritime naviga- 

 tion up to that point, access shall 

 be assured to the French Govern- 

 ment at a point lower down on 

 the River Gambia, which shall be 

 recognised by mutual agree- 

 ment as being accessible to mer- 

 chant ships engaged in maritime 



navigation. 

 50 The conditions which 



shall govern transit on the 

 River Gambia and its tributaries, 

 as well as the method of access to 

 the point that may be reserved to 

 France in accordance with the 

 preceding paragraph, shall form 

 the subject of future agreement 

 between the two Governments. 



In any case, it is understood 

 that these conditions shall be at 

 least as favourable as those of 



mandes en etat feront 1'objet d'un 

 Arrangement special entre les 

 deux Gouvernements. 



ARTICLE IV. 



Le Gouvernement de Sa Ma- 

 jeste Britannique, reconnaissant 

 qu'en outre de 1'indemnite men- 

 tionnee dans 1'Article precedent, 

 une compensation territoriale est 

 due a la France pour 1'abandon 

 de son privilege sur la partie de 

 Pile de Terre-Neuve visee a PAr- 

 ticle II, convient avec le Gouv- 

 ernement de la Republique Fran- 

 gaise des dispositions qui font 

 Pobjet des Articles suivants: 



ARTICLE V. 



La frontiere existant entre la 

 Senegambi et la Colonie An- 

 glaise de la Gambie sera modi- 

 fiee de maniere a assurer a la 

 France la possession de Yarbou- 

 tenda et des terrains et points 

 d'atterrissement appartenant a 

 cette localite. 



AU cas ou la navigation mari- 

 time ne pourrait s'exercer jusque- 

 la, un acces sera assure en aval au 

 Gouvernement Franc.ais sur un 

 point de la Riviere Gambie qui 

 sera reconnu d'un commun accord 

 comme etant accessible aux bati- 

 ments marchands se livrant a la 

 navigation maritime. 



Les conditions dans lesquelles 

 seront regies le transit sur la Ri- 

 viere Gambie et ses affluents, ainsi 

 que le mode d'acces au point qui 

 viendrait a etre reserve a la 

 France, en execution du para- 

 graphe precedent, feront lob jet 

 d'arrangements a concerter entre 

 les deux Gouvernements. 



II est, dans tous les cas entendu 

 que ces conditions seront au moins 

 aussi favourables que celle du 



