§ SIR GEORGE CAMPBELLasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, For what Provinces of European Turkey Commissioners are appointed to give effect to the provisions of the 23rd Article of the Treaty of Berlin; and, if he can state how those Commissions are composed?
§ MR. BOURKESir, we have received Reports of such Commissions having been formed in the vilayets of Adrianople, Salonica, and Janina. In the vilayet of Adrianople the Commission is thus comprised—President, the Governor General; 12 representative members, of whom four are Greeks, three Mussulmans, two Armenians, one Bulgarian, one Jew; 11ex-officiomembers, of whom nine are Mussulmans and two non-Mussulmans. This Commission has 517 completed its examination and sent up its Report to Constantinople. The Commission for the vilayet of Salonica, as finally constituted, contains 10 Mussulmans, eight Christians, and two Jews. Of these 20 members, 17 are natives of Macedonia and three of Asia Minor. Of the proceedings in the vilayet of Janina we only know that the Vali has constituted a Commission. It consists of 20 Mussulmans and six or seven Greeks, and it is now examining the Organic Law proposed to be applied to the Province.