MR. JACOBBRIGHTasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, it having been provided by Articles 8 and 37 of the Treaty of Berlin that goods crossing the territory of Bulgaria and Servia respectively should not be subject to transit dues, Whether care has been taken to stipulate that goods from England or other countries imported into the provinces of Bulgaria and Servia, or goods exported from these countries to England or elsewhere, shall be in like manner free from any transit dues whilst crossing Austrian or Turkish territory; and, whether imports and exports to and from Bosnia and Herzegovina are, during the Austrian occupation of these provinces, to be subject to the like dues as in other parts of Turkey, or to the higher duties of Austria?
§ MR. BOURKESir, the Congress at Berlin, in conferring independence upon Servia, and autonomy upon Bulgaria, stipulated that no transit due should be taken either in the Principality or in the autonomous Province. The Treaty of Commerce under which British subjects traded through Austria into Turkey did not come under the cognizance of the Congress; and was, therefore, unaf- 221 fected by the stipulations of the Congress. With regard to the last part of the Question, the Austrian and Turkish Governments have not yet entered into any stipulations with respect to the administration of Bosnia and Herzegovina.