[History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume II. by Rufus Anderson]@TWC D-Link bookHistory Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume II.
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It is clearly understood, that it cannot, in any case, give to said Powers the right to interfere, either collectively or separately, in the relations of his Majesty, the Sultan, with his subjects, nor in the internal administration of his Empire." See _Treaty of Paris_, March 30, 1856, in _Parliamentary State Papers_, vol.lxi.p.
20.
Also, appended, _Protocols of Conferences_, pp.
8, 13, 51, 57, 58.
The Hatti Humaioun of 1855 was much more than a confirmation of the Imperial Firman of 1850, nor was it a dead letter.
A year afterwards Dr.Jewett, while admitting that it was inefficient in certain respects, declared it to have been in an important sense, a quickening spirit.
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