The present Convention shall be ratified, and the ratifications thereof
shall be exchanged, within the space of one month, or sooner if
possible.
In Witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the
same, and have affixed thereto the seal of their arms.
Done at Constantinople, the fourth day of June, in the year One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-eight.
(L.S.) A. H. LAYARD.
(L.S.) SAFVET.
No. 3 is the Annex to the above Convention, consisting of Six Articles,
signed at Constantinople on July 1, 1878, by A. H. Layard and Safvet
respectively. The first five Articles deal with the manner in which the
Island of Cyprus would be governed, whilst under British occupation. The
final Article, viz. Article VI, is as follows--
"That if Russia restores to Turkey Kars and the other Conquests
made by her in Armenia during the last war, the Island of Cyprus
will be evacuated by England; and the Convention of June 4, 1878,
will be at an end."