(_c_) Ceux qui auront servi sous les drapeaux pendant la Guerre de l'Indépendance, lesquels pourront être naturalisés d'une manière collective, sur la proposition du Gouvernement, par une seule Loi et sans autre formalité. 3. La naturalisation ne peut être accordée que par la Loi, et individuellement. 4. Une Loi spéciale déterminera, le mode d'après lequel les étrangers pourront établir leur domicile en Roumanie. 5. Les Roumains ou ceux qui seront naturalisés Roumains pourront acquérir des immeubles ruraux en Roumanie. Les droits déjà acquis seront respectés. Les Conventions Internationales actuellement existantes restent en vigueur, avec toutes leurs clauses et jusqu'à l'expiration de leur durée. (_Ibid._, lxxi. 1176-77.) * * * * * THE COMPACT WITH RUMANIA (1880). _English Text of Identic Note presented to the Roumanian Government, February 20, 1880._ The Undersigned, British Representative at Bucharest, has the honour, by order of his Government, to convey to M. Boeresco, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Roumania, the following communication:-- Her Britannic Majesty's Government have been informed, through the Agent of His Royal Highness the Prince of Roumania at Paris, of the promulgation, on the 25th October, 1879, of a Law, voted by the "Chambres de Revision" of the Principality, for the purpose of bringing the text of the Roumanian Constitution into conformity with the stipulations inserted in Article XLIV of the Treaty of Berlin. Her Majesty's Government cannot consider the new Constitutional provisions which have been brought to their cognizance--and particularly those by which persons belonging to a non-Christian creed domiciled in Roumania, and not belonging to any foreign nationality, are required to submit to the formalities of individual naturalization--as being a complete fulfilment of the views of the Powers signatories of the Treaty of Berlin. Trusting, however, to the determination of the Prince's Government to approximate more and more, in the execution of these provisions, to the liberal intentions entertained by the Powers, and taking note of the positive assurances to that effect which have been conveyed to them, the Government of Her Britannic Majesty, being desirous of giving to the Roumanian nation a proof of their friendly sentiments, have decided to recognize the Principality of Roumania as an independent State. Her Majesty's Government consequently declare themselves ready to enter into regular diplomatic relations with the Prince's Government. In bringing the decision come to by his Government to the knowledge of the Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Undersigned, &c. W. A. WHITE. BUCHAREST, _February 20, 1880_. (_Ibid._, p. 1187.) * * * * * (_g_) RUMANIA AND THE POWERS (1902).