The following settlement of territorial disputes between the British Empire and the German Empire is to be agreed.
1. The British Empire will renounce all territorial claims to the Samoan islands.
2. The German Empire will agree to transfer of all of the German rights in the Tonga group to Britain, including that of establishing a naval and coaling station, and the right of extraterritoriality, the shifting of the line of demarcation between German and British islands in the Solomon group so as to give to Great Britain all the German islands to the east and southeast of the island of Bougainville; the division of the so-called neutral zone in West Africa by a definite boundary line between British and German possessions in order to promote stability and peace; the promise of Germany to take into consideration, as much and as far as possible, the wishes which the Government of Great Britain may express with regard to the development of reciprocal tariffs in the territories of Togo and the Gold Coast; and the renouncing by Germany of her rights of extraterritoriality in Zanzibar.
3. The British Empire solemnly undertakes to respect the terms of the Treaty of Berlin of 1889 in other respects, including the right of the natives to select their Chief or King, and the guarantees of support and protection for the legitimate government of the rightful King of Samoa.
Hereby signed,
(on behalf of Her Majesty, Queen Victoria)
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
