To: Libertonian Government | From: Lady Sarah Mountbatten | Re: Harris

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Message Class: Textual
Encryption: Buckingham
To: Secretary of State Sam Worthington, Liberty
From: Prime Minster Elizabeth Hall, Bretonia

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Secretary of State Sam Worthington,

The Cabinet has received your message and we are glad that you have agreed with our conditions. The Cabinet and the SIS agree with the proposed LSF operation and the SIS will help as much as they can. However, we consider it imperative that Crayter's permission for access is obtained if the operation will take place in Tau-44, as they consider the system their own.

These are, then, the articles of this treaty:

1. The Liberty Navy will purchase 10,000 square kilometres (3,861 square miles) of surface on Planet Harris from the Kingdom of Bretonia for use as a military base.
   
   
2. The Liberty Navy and the Liberty Security Force may permanently station space forces in the Tau-31 System and ground forces on Planet Harris under these conditions:
   
   1. The total size of the space forces may not surpass one standard fleet unless specially permitted by the Bretonian Government.
      
   2. The total size of the ground forces may not surpass one standard field army unless specially permitted by the Bretonian Government.
      
   3. The Liberty Navy and the Liberty Security Force will be granted a temporary clearance to pass through Bretonian space in order to reach Tau-31, including capital ships. The Kingdom of Bretonia must be notified of the date(s) intended for this journey at least one week in advance.
      
   4. Should the Republic of Liberty wish to return any of its capital ships, the access clearance for the specific ships must be first obtained from either the Bretonian Government, or the BAF Admiralty, or the BPA Command.
      
   5. Should the Liberty military forces within the Tau-31 System breach the NATO convention, or this treaty, or the Bretonian law except as exempted by this treaty, the Kingdom of Bretonia may demand their departure.
      
   
   
3. The Liberty Navy and the Liberty Security Force assets and personnel within Tau-31 may be used to enforce this treaty and the Bretonian Charter of Interstellar Law, as well as to protect Liberty and Synth property from unlawful action.
   
   
4. The supplying of these forces will be carried out at the expense of the Republic of Liberty, but may be carried out by Bretonian shipping companies should they be contracted.
   
   
5. Synth Foods will purchase the rest of the land surface as corporate property. Synth Foods may begin using whatever land is declared ready by Planetform as soon as declared ready. Until then, those areas will be legally held by Planetform. It is estimated that the project will be fully completed in the early 830-s.
   
   
6. DSE will have exclusive mining rights on Planet Harris.
   
   
7. The Kingdom of Bretonia will still be legally considered as the land owner. The Liberty Navy and Synth Foods will be considered as land holders.
   
   
8. Bretonian law will still apply on Planet Harris and within the Tau-31 System.
   
   1. The Liberty military base on Planet Harris is exempted from this. The NATO convention applies within its borders instead.
      
   
   
9. A local planetary government will be formed. Synth Foods are invited to participate in its formation and send their representatives to take part in the government.
   
   
10. Synth Foods and the Liberty Navy will purchase these grants from the Kingdom of Bretonia via the Republic of Liberty.
    
    
11. The Republic of Liberty will annul 60% of the Kingdom of Bretonia's debt to the Republic of Liberty as of the date when this treaty is signed. The Kingdom of Bretonia will settle the remaining debt within the next 20 years.
    
    
12. The Republic of Liberty will pay 5% of its GDP from the year 826 until the end of 827 to the Kingdom of Bretonia. The Republic of Liberty will pay 2.5% of its GDP from 827 to the Kingdom of Bretonia until the end of 828, quarterly. The Republic of Liberty will pay 2.5% of its GDP from 828 to the Kingdom of Bretonia until the end of 829, quarterly.
    
    
13. The Republic of Liberty will relax its tariffs towards Bretonian export for three years starting from 1st January 828. The precise terms will negotiated together with the Bretonian Office for Trade and Industry and with Her Majesty's Treasury until the end of 827.
    
    
14. Representatives of the Republic of Liberty and the Kingdom of Bretonia will meet at least once every following year to re-examine this treaty, with the authority of amendment or withdrawal should both parties agree.
    

If this is acceptable, I hereby invite you to New London to bring this treaty about with your signature and celebrate the fortunate event together with us.

As of Kusari and Gallia, the Kingdom of Bretonia stresses that any message sent to them would be stronger if it could boast of our mutual participation, rather than Liberty's alone.

Prime Minister
Representative of House Steiner
Kingdom of Bretonia

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