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THE BELGIAN CONGO in 1908 
The Association gave its adhesion to the Act of 1885, and 
proclaimed the neutralization of its territory. The Belgian 
Legislature granted Leopold II permission to become sover- 
eign of the new state; and the transformation of the Asso- 
ciation into the Independent State of the Congo was 
officially proclaimed in the summer of 1885.1 
1 The independence and new constitution were proclaimed at Banana, 
on the Congo, by Sir Francis de Winton. the first Governor-General, on 
Julv 19. 1885.