XX. This commission shall assemble at Dresden, and their labours shall be completed at latest in three months, dating from the exchange of the ratifications of this Treaty. ART. XV. His Majesty the Emperor of Austria having offered his mediation in every arrangement, between the Courts of Prussia and Saxony, rendered necessary in consequence of the territorial cessions stipulated in Art. II.; his Majesty the King of Saxony and his Majesty the King of Prussia accept this mediation, both in regard to the general and particular arrangements entrusted to the commissions mentioned in the 3d and 14th Articles-His Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty engages, in consequence, to appoint without delay a commissioner, invested with full powers, to assist in the labours of the said commissions. ART. XVI. The communities, corporations, and establishments both religious and of public instruction, existing in the provinces and districts ceded by his Majesty the King of Saxony to Prussia, or in the provinces and districts remaining to his Saxon Majesty, shall preserve their property, whatever changes their destination may undergo, as well as the rents belonging to them, according to their charter, or which they have acquired by a legal title, since that period, under the Prussian and Saxon Governments, and neither Power shall interfere in the administration or in the collection of the revenues; provided that they be conducted in a manner conformable to the laws, and that the charges be defrayed to which all property or rents of the like nature are subjected in the territory in which they are situated. ART. XVII. The general principles which have been adopted at the Congress of Vienna for the free navigation of rivers shall serve as a guide to the commission appointed in virtue of the 14th Article, to regulate without delay, whatever relates to navigation; and shall be particularly applied to that of the Elbe, and floats of wood, and rafts of timber, as also to the waters known by the names of Elsterwerdaen, Flossgräben, the Schwarze Elster and the Weisse-Elster; as well as to that of the Floss-Graben, which flows from this latter river. ART. XVIII. His Majesty the King of Prussia, engages to fulfil the contracts made between the government and the farmers of Crown lands or land revenues, in the provinces and territories ceded in virtue of the 2nd Article, the leases of which are not yet expired. ART. XIX. His Majesty the King of Prussia promises to furnish annually to the Saxon government, and the latter engages to receive 150,000 quintals of salt (the quintal calculated at 110 pounds market weight of Berlin) for a sum which, without augmenting the present price paid by Saxon subjects, shall secure to his Majesty the King of Saxony a duty as nearly equal as possible to that which he received on the sale of each quintal of salt, immediately previous to the last war. The Commission which shall assemble in virtue of Article XIV. shall regulate, according to this principle, the price of the quintal, as also the number of years during which it shall continue at that price; and at the expiration of such period, a new regulation shall be made by common consent, both with regard to the quantity and the price of the salt. The quantity of 150,000 quintals, sold yearly, may be increased, upon the demand of the Saxon Governments (of which demand, if the increase is to be 50,000 quintals, six months notice, at least, shall be given; if it shall exceed that quantity, a year's notice) to 250,000 quintals; which the Prussian govern ment engages to furnish on the same condi tions, as the minimum above mentioned. It is understood that, at the expiration of the period agreed upon, the minimum of 150,000 quintals shall not, under any circumstances, be reduced at the pleasure of either party, and that the principle established respecting the price, by the present Article shall again form the basis of the new regulation.-The salt which the Saxon government shall receive, in virtue of the present Article, shall be supplied from the salt-works of Durrenberg and Koesen; and in case the quantity above mentioned should not be procured from these salt-works, it shall be furnished from the Prussian salt-works nearest to the frontiers of Saxony.-No export duty shall be paid on the salt which the Prussian Government shall furnish to Saxony in virtue of this Article, on its conveyance from the works to the frontiers, nor shall any other duties whatever be paid thereon, except those levied at the barriers, bridges, canals, or locks, than are paid by Prussian subjects on the same route, and for the same modes of conveyance. ART. XX. The exemption from export duties, referred to at the conclusion of the preceding Article, in respect to salt, shall be extended with the same modification, by the Prussian and Saxon governments respectively, to the exportation and importation from one territory to the other, of grain, of fuel, of every description, of timber, lime, slates, mill-stones, bricks, and stone of all kinds, whether these articles are purchased by subjects of the two governments, or by the governments themselves. His Majesty the King of Prussia, and his Majesty the King of Saxony, at the same time, mutually engage never to prohibit or interrupt the exportation of the said articles. ART. XXI. No individual settled in the provinces which are under the dominion of his Majesty the King of Saxony, nor any one settled in those which, by the present Treaty, pass under the dominion of the King of Prussia, shall be molested in his person, property, rents, pensions, and revenues of any kind, nor in his rank and dignities; nor be $ ART, XXV. The present Treaty shall be ratified, and the acts of ratification exchanged in three days, or sooner, if possible. In faith of which the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed it, and have affixed thereunto the seal Done at Vienna, the 18th of their arms. May 1815. Signed (L. S,) prosecuted or called to account in any man- ART. XXII. His Majesty the King of ART. XXIII. His Majesty the King of Saxony engages, that the records, maps, plans, and all documents whatever belonging to the duchy of Warsaw, shall be faithfully restored. This restitution shall take place within six months from the day of the exchange of the ratifications of the present Treaty. ART. XXIV. His Majesty the King of Saxony is released from all responsibility and charge whatever, with regard to the payment of debts contracted on account of the duchy of Warsaw, by consent of the ministry of Finance, or other public officers of that country; particularly from all obligations imposed upon him by the Convention of Bayonne, which is annulled, and from the loan obtained on the salt mines of Wieliczka.-With regard to the 2,550,193 florins, claimed as having been transferred from the treasury of Saxony into that of the duchy of Warsaw; as it is stipulated by the Treaty signed the 21st April (3d May), between Prussia, Austria, and Russia, that a Commission of liquidation, composed of Russian, Austrian, and Prussian Commissioners, should immediately assemble at Warsaw, and that the three Courts have invested this Commission with the necessary authority to enquire into the exterior and interior debt, and also their claims and charges against each other; the above claim shall be disposed of in the same manner. The claims on the part of Saxony, to that sum, shall undergo the same examination, and shall be submitted to the said Commission, to which his Majesty the King of Saxony shall be at liberty to send an accredited Commissioner on his part, who shall assist in their deliberations. (L. S.) The Prince de Hardenberg. (L. S.) The Count Schulenberg. (L. S.) De Globig. ACT, No. V.-Declaration of the King of His Majesty the King of Saxony, being willing to conforin to the arrangements made by the Courts of Russia, Austria, France, Great Britain, and Prussia, relative to the House of Schönburg, as contained in the following Article, which forms the 33d of those Articles that have been communicated to his said Majesty at Presbourg, viz.: "ARTICLE. The High Contracting Parties, in expressly reserving to the House of the Princes of Schönburg the rights which shall in future belong to that family, in consequence of the rank it holds in the Germanic Confederation, confirm and guarantee to them, respectively, in regard to their possessions in the kingdom of Saxony, all the prerogatives which the Royal House of Saxony has recognized in the recess of the 4th of May 1740, concluded between Saxony and the House of Schönburg;" Declares, 1. That he engages to the five Powers above-mentioned, to acknowledge the advantages and rights which shall be secured, in the Germanic League, to the Princes and Counts of Schönburg; which shall, however, not affect the rights which the Court of Saxony exercises over the possessions of the 2. His Majesty the King of said House. Saxony engages also to the five Powers, for himself and his successors, to fulfil, and to cause to be fulfilled, for ever, and in their full extent, the stipulations contained in the recess of the 4th May 1740.-The present Declaration shall have the same force and validity as if it had been inserted in the Treaty concluded this day between his said Majesty and their Majesties the Emperor of Austria, the Emperor of Russia, and the King of Prussia. Done at Vienna, the 18th May 1815. Signed (L. S.) (L. S.) The Count Schulenburg. Act of Acceptation. The undersigned Plenipotentiaries of Austria, Russia, France, Great Britain, and Prussia, formally accept, on the part of their respective Courts, the above Declaration, made in the name of his Majesty the King of Saxony; to the end that the engagements therein contained, shall have the same force as if they had been textually inserted in the Treaty concluded on the 18th of May, between the above Courts and his Majesty the King of Saxony. Done at Vienna, the 29th May 1815. Signed (L. S.) The Prince de Metternich. (L. S.) The Prince de Talleyrand. (L. S.) The Prince de Rasoumoffsky. ACT, No. VI.-Treaty between Prussia and In the Name of the Most Holy and Undi vided Trinity. the Cabinet, and his Minister Plenipotentiary at the Congress of Vienna; and the Sieur Ernest Christian George Augustus Count de Hardenberg, Grand Cross of the Order of Leopold of Austria; and of the Red Eagle of Prussia; Knight of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem; his Minister of State and of the Cabinet, his Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Congress of Vienna; who, after having exchanged their full powers, found in good and proper form, have agreed to the following Articles: ART. I. His Majesty the King of Prussia cedes to his Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, King of Hanover, to be possessed by his Majesty and his successors, in full property and sovereignty; 1. The principality of Hildesheim, which shall pass under the government of his Majesty, with all the rights and all the charges with which the said principality passed under the Prussian government. 2. The town and territory of Goslar. 3. The principality of East Frieseland, including the country called Harlinger-Land, under the conditions reciprocally stipulated in the 5th Article for the navigation of the Ems, and the trade with the port of Embden. The states of the principality shall preserve their rights and privileges. 4. The lower county (Nieder Grafschaft) of Lingen, and the part of the principality of Prussian Munster which is situated between that county and the part of Rheina Wolbeck possessed by the Hano verian government; but as the two High Contracting Parties have agreed that the kingdom of Hanover shall obtain by this cession an increase of territory containing a population of 22,000 souls, and, as the lower county of Lingen and the part of the principality of Munster above-mentioned, might not fulfil this condition, his Majesty the King of Prussia agrees to extend the line of demarcation in the principality of Munster, as far as shall be necessary to comprise the said population. The Commission, which shall be immediately appointed by the Prussian and Hanoverian governments, to proceed to the exact determination of the limits, shall be particularly charged with the execution of this arrangement. His Prussian Majesty renounces in perpetuity, for himself, his descendants and successors, all the provinces and territories mentioned in the present Article, as well as all the rights which relate to them. His Majesty the King of Prussia, and his Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, King of Hanover, desiring to comprise, in a particular Treaty, the dispositions contained in the Protocols signed the 13th and 21st of February 1815, of the Committee of Plenipotentiaries of England, Austria, Russia, Prussia, and France, in order to carry into effect the stipulations of the Treaty concluded at Reichenbach, on the 14th June 1813, and to fulfil the territorial arrangements consequent upon the engagement therein contained on the part of his Prussian Majesty, the two sovereigns have named Plenipotentiaries, to concert, agree upon, and sign whatever relates to this subject; viz.: His Majesty the King of Prussia, the Prince Hardenberg, his Chancellor of State, Knight of the Grand Orders of the Black Eagle, and of the Red Eagle, Knight of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, and of the Iron Cross of Prussia; Knight of the Orders of St. Andrew, of St. Alexander Newsky, and of St. Anne of Russia, of the First Class; Grand Cross of the Royal Order of St. Stephen of Hungary; Grand Cordon of the Legion of Honour, Grand Cross of the Order of St. Charles of Spain; of St. Hubert of Bavaria; of the Supreme Order of the Annunciation of Sardinia; Knight of the Order of the Seraphim of Sweden; of the Elephant of Denmark; of the Golden Eagle of Wurtemberg, and of several others; his First Plenipotentiary at the Congress; and the Sieur Charles William Baron de Humboldt, his said Majesty's Minister of State, his Chamberlain, Envoy Extraordinary, and Minister Plenipotentiary to his Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty; Knight of the Grand Order of the Red Eagle, of the Order of the Iron Cross of Prussia, and of St. Anne of the First Class of Russia; his Second Plenipotentiary at the Congress of Vienna. And his Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, King of Han-ritory. over, the Sieur Ernest Frederic Herbert, Count Munster, Hereditary Grand Marshal of the Kingdom; Grand Cross of the Royal Order of St. Stephen, his Minister of State and of ART. II. His Majesty the King of Prussia renounces for himself, his heirs and successors, for ever, all right and title, of every description, which his Majesty, as sovereign of Eichsfeld, might advance to the Chapter of St. Peter, in the borough of Norten, or to its dependencies, situated in the Hanoverian ter ART. III. His Majesty the King of Prussia engages, in consideration of certain indemnities to be taken out of the mass of the countries secured to him by the arrangements. vernment shall preserve their rights and pri vileges; especially those founded on the provincial recess of the 15th of September 1702, confirmed by his Majesty the King of Great Britain, now reigning, under date of the 21st June 1765. 2. The bailiwick of Klötze; 3, The bailiwick of Elbingerode; 4. The villages of Rudegershagen and Gonseteich; 5. The bailiwick of Reckeberg. His Britannic Majesty, King of Hanover, renounces for himself, his heirs and successors, for ever, the provinces and districts specified in the present Article, and all the rights which belong to them. of the Congress of Vienna, to induce; 1. His | ART. V. His Majesty the King of Prussia, and his Britannic Majesty, King of Hanover, animated with the desire of rendering the advantages of the commerce of the Ems and of the Port of Embden, entirely equal and common to their respective subjects, have determined upon the following arrangements a 1. The Hanoverian government engages for the erection, at its expense, in the years 1815 and 1816, of the works which a Commission, composed of professional men of both governments, to be immediately appointed by Prussia and Hanover, shall deem necessary to render that part of the river of Ems navigable, which extends from the confines of Prussia to its mouth, and to keep that part of the river constantly in the state in which those works shall have placed it, for the benefit of navigation. 2. Prussian subjects shall have the liberty of importing and exporting, by the port of Embden, all kinds of commodities, productions, and goods whatever, whether natural or artificial, and to have warehouses in the town of Embden, wherein to place the said goods for two years, dating from their arrival in the town, without their being subject to any other inspection than that to which those of Hanoverian subjects are liable, 3. Prussian vessels, and merchants of the same nation, shall not pay for navigation, for the export or import of merchandize, or for warehousing, any other tolls orduties than those charged upon Hanoverian subjects. These tolls and duties shall be regulated by agree, ment between Prussia and Hanover, and no alteration shall be introduced into the tarif, hereafter, but by mutual consent. The privileges and liberties herein specified extend equally to Hanoverian subjects who navigate that part of the river Ems which remains to his Prussian Majesty. 4. Prussian subjects ART. IV. His Majesty the King of the shall not be compelled to employ the merUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, chants of Embden, for the trade which they King of Hanover, cedes to his Majesty the carry on with that port; they shall be at liberty King of Prussia, to be possessed by him and to dispose of their commodities, either to inhis successors, in full property and sove- habitants of the town, or to foreigners, withreignty; 1. That part of the duchy of Lauen- out paying any other duties than those to burg situated upon the right bank of the which Hanoverian subjects are liable, and Elbe, with the villages of Luneburg situated which cannot be raised but by mutual conupon the same bank. That part of the duchy sent.-His Majesty the King of Prussia, on upon the left bank, remains to the kingdom his part, engages to grant to Hanoverian subof Hanover. The states of that part of thejects the free navigation of the Stecknitz duchy which passes under the Prussian go- canal, so as not to exact from them any other duties than those which shall be paid by the inhabitants of the duchy of Lauenburg. His Prussian Majesty engages, besides, to insure these advantages to Hanoverian subjects, even if he should hereafter cede the duchy of Lauenburg to any other sovereign, ART. VI. His Majesty the King of Prussia and his Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, King of Hanover, mutually agree to three military roads through their respective states, viz.: 1st. One from Halberstadt, through the country of Hildesheim, to Minden. 2d. A second from the Old March, through Gifhorn and Neustadt, to Minden. 3d. A third from Osnabruck, through Ippenbüren and Rheina, to Bentheim. The two first in favour of Prussia, and the third in favour of Hanover. The two governments shall appoint a Commission, without delay, to prepare, by common consent, the necessary regulations for the said roads. ART. VII. The military, in the active service of the two High Contracting Powers, natives of the countries ceded by one Power to the other in virtue of the present Convention, shall be sent home in one year from the exchange of the ratifications of the present Convention. Officers of every rank may have the option of continuing in the service to which they are at present attached. The pensions allowed to different ranks of military, shall continue to be paid by the Powers who have granted them. ART. VIII. The High Contracting Parties reciprocally engage to restore to each other the title-deeds of Crown lands, and the documents and papers which relate to provinces and districts mutually ceded, within two months from the day of the restitution of each of the said provinces or districts. The same rule shall be observed with respect to the plans and maps of the towns and countries above-mentioned. ART. IX. In all the countries ceded or exchanged in pursuance of the present Convention, the new possessor shall be responsible for all the debts, specially mortgaged upon the said countries, as well as for those contracted for the expenses incurred in the actual improvement of these countries.-The debts constitutionally contracted in the name of the country, particularly those in the duchy of Lauenburg since 1798; for the expenses of forming the line of frontier, and those occasioned by the occupation of the French; shall be acknowledged as debts of the country, and the mode of effecting the speedy and punctual reimbursement of the capital and interest, shall be settled, with the concurrence of the provincial states. ART. X. The bailiwick of Meppen, belonging to the Duke of Aremberg, as well as the part of Rheina Wolbeck which belongs to the Duke of Looz-Corswaren, which are now provisionally occupied by the Hanoverian government, shall be placed in the situation, with respect to the kingdom of Hanover, which the Federative Constitution of Ger many shall settle for the mediatised territories.-The Prussian and Hanoverian governments having nevertheless reserved to themselves, by Article XLIII. of the said Protocol of the 13th of February, to agree hereafter, if necessary, upon the fixing of another line of frontier with regard to the county belonging to the Duke of Looz-Corswaren; the said governments will instruct the Commission, which they may name for settling the limits of that part of the county of Lingen cerled to Hanover, to deliberate thereupon, and to adjust definitively the frontiers of that part of the county belonging to the Duke of Looz, Corswaren, which, as aforesaid, is to be possessed by the Hanoverian government.-The relations between the Hanoverian government and the county of Bentheim shall remain as settled by the mortgage Treaties existing between his Britannic Majesty and Count Bentheim; and when the rights derived by Treaty shall have expired, the relations of the county of Bentheim towards the kingdom of Hanover shall be such as the Federative Constitution of Germany shall determine for the mediatised territories. ART. XI. His Majesty the King of Prussia, desiring to make certain exchanges of terri tory with his Serene Highness the Duke of Brunswick, for the consolidation of their respective territories; his Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, King of Hanover, engages to use his best endeavours in inducing his Serene Highness to consent to these arrangements; and to facilitate the same, he consents beforehand to any cessions of territory which the two Parties may agree upon. The present Article refers particularly to Calvoerde and Walkenried, without being absolutely restricted to these two places. ART. XII. His Britannic Majesty, King of Hanover, with a view to acceding to his Prussian Majesty's wish, that a suitable accession of territory should be provided for his Serene Highness the Duke of Oldenburg, promises to cede to him a district containing a population of 5,000 inhabitants. ART. XIII. The present Treaty shall be ratified, and the ratifications exchanged within four weeks, or sooner, if possible. In faith of which the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed it, and have affixed thereunto the seal of their arms. Done at Vienna the 29th May 1815. |