The Diet of the Swiss Confederation, at its

special sitting held at Zurich. Having received in its sitting of the 3d of April 1815, through the mediation of the Ministers accredited to the Confederation; viz. M. de Schraut, Austrian Minister, in the name of his Imperial and Royal Apostolick Majesty, as also by virtue of special powers, of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent of Portugal; M. Stratford Canning, accredited on the part of his Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; the Count Augustus Talleyrand, on the part of his Most Christian Majesty the King of France, as also by virtue of special powers, of his Majesty the King of Spain and of the Indies; the Baron Chambrier d'Olleyres, in the name of his Majesty the King of Prussia; the Baron Krudener, Charge d'Affaires of his Majesty the Emperor of Russia; the Declaration relative to the affairs of Switzerland, inserted in the Protocol of the Congress of Vienna the 19th, and signed the 20th of March 1815, by the Plenipotentiaries of the eight Powers who were parties to the Treaty of Paris of the S0th May 1814; hastened to communicate this Act to the nineteen confederated cantons, inviting them to give their sanction to the Diet's declaring, in due and proper form, the general accession of Switzerland to the arrangements contained in the said instrument.

The chief authorities of each canton, having maturely considered the object of this communication, and having successively made known to the Federal authority their final determination, the Diet of the Swiss Confederation, in pursuance of the acts deposited in their archives, and of the declarations inserted in their Proctocol, by which it appears that a number of cantons, exceeding that which the federal union prescribes, for the acceptance of the most important resolutions of the Helvetic body, have declared their consent thereto; which, according to the terms of the Constitution, becomes thereby that of the whole Confederation; have adopted the following Resolutions; 1. The Diet accedes, in the name of the Swiss Confederation, to the declaration of the powers assembled at the Congress of Vienna, under date of the 20th March 1815, and promises that the stipulations contained in the "Transaction" inserted in this Act, shall be faithfully and religiously observed. 2. The Diet expresses the eternal gratitude of the Swiss nation, towards the High Powers, who, by the above declaration, assign to them, with a boundary

far more advantageous, its ancient important frontiers; unite three new cantons to the Confederation, and promise solemnly to acknowledge and guarantee the perpetual neutrality of the Helvetic Body, as being necessary to the general interest of Europe. The Diet feels the same sentiments of gratitude for the uniform kindness with which the august Sovereigns have exerted themselves in bringing about a reconciliation of the differences which had arisen between the cantons. 3. In pursuance of the present Act of Accession, and of the Note addressed to the Swiss Envoys at Vienna, the 20th March 1815, by Prince Metternich, President of the Conferences of the eight Powers, the Diet declares its wish that the Ministers of their Majesties, residing in Switzerland, would, in pursuance of the instructions which they have received, and of the powers with which they have been invested, give effect to the dispositions of the declarations of the 20th March, and carry into execution the engagements therein contained.

In faith of which the present Act has been signed and sealed, at Zurich, the 27th May 1815. In the name of the Diet of the Swiss Confederation, the Burgomaster of the Canton of Zurich, President,

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of Switzerland.

Signed. De Wyss, the Chancellor of the Confederation. Signed. Mousson,

ACT, No. XII.-Protocol of the 29th of March

1815, on the Cessions made by the King of Sardinia to the Canton of Geneva. The Allied Powers having expressed their earnest desire that certain facilities should be granted to the canton of Geneva, either for connecting a disjointed part of its possessions, or for opening its communications with Switzerland; his Majesty the King of Sardinia being anxious on his part, to evince to his high and powerful Allies, the great satisfaction which he experiences in rendering them any service in his power, the undersigned Plenipotentiaries have agreed to what follows:

ART. I. His Majesty the King of Sardinia places at the disposal of the High Allied Powers that part of Savoy which is situated between the river Arve, the Rhone, the limits of that part of Savoy occupied by France, and Mount Salève, as far as Veiry inclusive, together with that part which lies between the high road called the Simplon, the Lake of Geneva, and the present territory of the canton of Geneva, from Venezas to the point where the river of Hermance crosses the said road, and from thence, following the course of that river, to where it enters the Lake of Geneva, to the east of the village of Hermance (the whole of the road of the Simplon continuing to be possessed by his Majesty the King of Sardinia) in order that these countries may be united to the canton of Geneva;

with the reservation, however, of determining more precisely, by Commissioners respectively appointed, their limits, particularly of that part which relates to the demarcation above Veiry and on Mount Salève. His Majesty renounces for himself and his successors in perpetuity, all rights of sovereignty, and other rights which may have belonged to him over all the places and territories comprised in this line, without exception or reservation. ART. II. His Majesty agrees, that the communication between the canton of Geneva and the Vallais, by the road of the Simplon, shall be established, in the same manner as it has been agreed to by France, between Geneva and the canton of Vaud, by the route of Versoy. A free communication shall also be at all times granted for the Genevese troops, between the territory of Geneva and the jurisdiction of Jussy, and such facilities shall be allowed as may be necessary for proceeding by the lake to the road of the Simplon. ART. III. On the other hand, his Majesty feeling reluctant to giving his consent to a part of his territory being united to a State, whose prevailing religion is different, without securing to the inhabitants of the country which he cedes, the enjoyment of the free exercise of their religion, and the means of keeping up their religious establishments, with the full enjoyment of all the rights of citizens, it is agreed that, 1. The Catholic religion shall be maintained and protected, in the same manner as at present, in all those communes ceded by his Majesty the King of Sardinia, which are to be united to the canton of Geneva. 2. Those parishes which are neither dismembered nor divided by the line of the new frontiers, shall retain their present extension, and shall be served by the same number of clergymen; and with regard to the parts dismembered, which may not be sufficiently large to constitute a parish, application shall be made to the bishop of the diocese, in order to obtain their annexation to some other parish of the canton of Geneva. 3. If the number of Protestants inhabiting the communes ceded by his Majesty should be less than that of the Catholics, the schoolmasters residing in those communes shall always be Catholics. No Protestant church shall be established, excepting in the town of Carrouge, which shall have one. Two-thirds of the municipal officers shall be Catholics, and of the three individuals who fill the offices of mayor and his two assistants, two of them shall always be catholics. In case it should happen that an equal number of Protestants and Catholics should reside in the same commune, the municipal body shall be composed of an equal number of Protestants and Catholics, and they shall fill the office of mayor alternately; in this case, however, there must always be a Catholic school-master, even where a Protestant one is already established. It is not intended by this Article to prevent Protestants residing in

a commune inhabited by Catholics, from erecting at their own expense a private chapel, for the exercise of their religion, if they desire it, or from having, also at their expense, a Protestant school-master for the private instruction of their children. 4. The funds, revenues, and the administration of religious and charitable institutions, shall remain untouched, and private individuals shall not be prevented from erecting new ones. 5. The government shall make the same provision as the present Government for the support of the clergy, and places of worship. 6. The Catholic church, now established at Geneva, shall be maintained, as at present, at the expense of the State, as the laws of the Constitution of Geneva have already decreed a suitable establishment and provision shall be made for the officiating clergyman. 7. The Catholic communes and the parish of Geneva shall continue to form part of the diocese which is to govern the provinces of the Chablais, and Faucigny; unless it should be otherwise regulated by the authority of the Holy See. 8. The bishop shall not, under any circumstances, be disturbed in his pastoral visits. 9. The inhabitants of a ceded country shall be placed entirely upon the same footing in point of civil and political rights, with the Genevese of the city; they shall exercise these rights conjointly with them, excepting, however, the rights of property, of citizenship, or of communes. Catholic children shall be received into the public schools. They shall not be instructed in religion with the Protestants, but separately; and persons of the Catholic communion shall be appointed for this purpose. 11. The communal property belonging to the new communes, shall be preserved to them, and they shall continue to administer them as hitherto, and to apply the revenues to their use. 12. The new communes shall not be liable to greater taxes than the old communes. 13. His Majesty the King of Sardinia reserves to himself the right of making known to the Helvetic Diet, and to support by means of his diplomatic agents accredited to it, every claim to which the non-fulfilment of the above Articles might give rise.

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ART. IV. All title deeds of landed property, and documents concerning ceded ef. fects, shall be given up by his Majesty the King of Sardinia, to the canton of Geneva, as soon as possible.

ART. V. The Treaty concluded at Turin, the 3rd of June 1754, between his Majesty the King of Sardinia and the Republic of Geneva, is hereby confirmed, with regard to all those Articles which are not at variance with the present transaction; but his Majesty, wishing to give the canton of Geneva a particular mark of his favour, contents neverthe less to annul that part of Article XIII. of the above Treaty, which denied to the citizens of Geneva, who since that time have had establishments and property in Savoy, the privilege of making it their principal residence.

RUSSIA,

(L. S.) The Prince de Rasoumoffsky (L. S.) The Count de Stackelberg. (L. S.) The Count de Nesselrode. SWEDEN, (L. S.) The Count de Lowenhielm.

ACT, No. XIII-Treaty between the King of Sardinia, Austria, England, Russia, Prussia, and France, of the 20th May 1815.

In the name of the Most Holy and Undivided Trinity.

His Majesty the King of Sardinia, &c. &c. being restored to the full and entire possession of his Continental States, in the same manner as he possessed them on the 1st of January 1792, with the exception of the part of Savoy ceded to France by the Treaty of Paris of the 30th May 1814; and certain changes having since been agreed upon, during the Congress of Vienna, relative to the extent and limits of the said States; his Majesty the Emperor of Austria, and his Majesty the King of Sardinia, wishing to confirm and establish, by a formal Treaty, every thing relating to these points, have in consequence named for their Plenipotentiaries; viz. His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, the Sieur Clement-Venceslas-Lothaire, Prince de Meternich - Winnebourg - Ochsenhausen, Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece, Grand Cross of the Royal Order of St. Stephen, Knight of the Orders of St. Andrew, of St. Alexander Newsky, and of St. Anne of the First Class; Grand Cordon of the Legion of Honour; Knight of the Order of the Elephant, of the Supreme Order of the Annunciation, of the Black Eagle and of the Red Eagle, of the Orders of the Seraphim, of St. Joseph of Tus

cany, of St. Hubert, of the Orders of the Golden Eagle of Wurtemberg, of Fidelity of Baden, of St. John of Jerusalem, and of several others; Chancellor of the Military Order of Maria-Theresa, Curator of the Academy of the Fine Arts, Chamberlain, intimate and actual Counsellor of his Majesty the Emperor of Austria, his Minister of State, of Conferences, and of Foreign Affairs, his First Plenipotentiary at the Congress; and the Sieur John Philip, Baron de Wessenberg, Knight Grand Cross of the Military and Religious Order of St. Maurice and Lazarus, Chamberlain, and intimate and actual Counsellor of his Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty, his Second Plenipotentiary at the Congress; and his Majesty the King of Sardinia, &c. &c. the Sieurs Don Anthony Maria Philip Asinari, Marquis de St. Marsan and de Carial, Count de Castigliole, Cartosio and Castelletto, Val d'Erro, Knight Grand Cross of the Military and Religious Order of St. Maurice and Lazarus, of the Orders of the Black Eagle and of the Red Eagle of Prussia; Majorgeneral of Cavalry, his Minister of State, and and his First Plenipotentiary at the Congress Principal Secretary for the War Department; and Count Don Joachim Alexander Rossi, Knight Grand Cross, and Commander of the Royal and Military Order of St. Maurice and Lazarus, his Majesty's Counsellor, and his Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of his Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty, and his Second Plenipotentiary at the Congress; who, in virtue of the full powers produced by them at the Congress of Vienna, found to be in due and proper form, have agreed upon the following Articles:

ART. I. The frontiers of the States of his Majesty the King of Sardinia shall be, on the side of France, such as they were on the 1st of January 1792, with the exception of the changes effected by the Treaty of Paris of 30th May 1314. On the side of the Helvetic Confederation, such as they existed on the 1st of January 1792, with the exception of the change produced by the cession in favour of the Canton of Geneva, as specified in the 7th Article hereinafter inserted. On the side of the States of his Majesty the Emperor of Austria, such as they existed on the 1st of January 1792; and the Convention concluded between their Majesties the Empress MariaTheresa and the King of Sardinia, on the 4th of October 1751, shall be reciprocally confirmed in all its stipulations. On the side of the States of Parma and Placentia, the frontier, as far it concerns the ancient States of the King of Sardinia, shall continue to be the same as it was on the 1st of January 1792. The borders of the former States of Genoa, and of the countries called Imperial Fiefs, united to the States of his Majesty the King of Sardinia, according to the following Articles, shall be the same as those which, on the 1st of January 1792, separated those countries

from the States of Parma and Placentia, and from those of Tuscany and Massa. The island of Capraja, having belonged to the ancient Republic of Genoa, is included in the cession of the States of Genoa to his Majesty the King of Sardinia.

ART. II. The States which constituted the former Republic of Genoa, are united in perpetuity to those of his Majesty the King of Sardinia; to be, like the latter, possessed by him in full sovereignty and hereditary property, and to descend, in the male line, in the order of primogeniture, to the two branches of his House, viz. the Royal Branch, and the Branch of Savoy Carignan.

ART. III. The King of Sardinia shall add to his present titles, that of Duke of Genoa. ART. IV. The Genoese shall enjoy all the rights and privileges specified in the Act, intitaled "A. A. Conditions which are to serve as the bases of the union of the Genoese States to those of his Sardinian Majesty," and the said Act shall be considered as an integral part of the present Treaty, and shall have the same force and validity, as if it were textually inserted in the present Article.

ART. V. The countries called Imperial Fiefs, formerly united to the ancient Ligurian Republic, are definitively united to the States of his Majesty the King of Sardinia, in the same manner as the rest of the Genoese States; and the inhabitants of these countries shall enjoy the same rights and privileges as those of the States of Genoa, specified in the preceding Article.

ART. VI. The right that the Powers who signed the Treaty of Paris of the 30th May 1814, reserved to themselves, by the Sd Artiele of that Treaty, of fortifying such points of their States as they might judge proper for their safety, is equally reserved, without restriction, to his Majesty the King of Sardinia. ART. VII. His Majesty the King of Sardinia cedes to the canton of Geneva, the districts of Savoy specified in the Act annexed, intituled "B. B. Cession made by his Majesty the King of Sardinia to the canton of Geneva," and on the conditions specified in the same Act. That Act shall be considered as an integral part of the present Treaty, and shall have the same force and validity as if it were textually inserted in the present Article.

ART. VIII. The provinces of Chablais and Faucigny, and the whole of the territory of Savoy to the north of Ugine, belonging to his Majesty the King of Sardinia, shall form a part of the neutrality of Switzerland, as re cognized and guaranteed by all the Powers. Whenever, therefore, the neighbouring Powers to Switzerland are in a state of open or impending hostility, the troops of his Majesty the King of Sardinia, which may be in those provinces, shall retire, and may for that purpose pass through the Vallais, if necessary. No other armed troops of any other Power, shall have the privilege of passing through or remaining in the said territories and pro(VOL. XXXII.)

vinces, excepting those which the Swiss Confederation shall think proper to place there; it being well understood, that this state of things shall not in any manner interrupt the administration of these countries, in which the civil agents of his Majesty the King of Sardinia may likewise employ the municipal guard for the preservation of good order.

ART. IX. The present Treaty shall form part of the definitive arrangements of the Congress at Vienna.

ART. X. The ratifications of the present Treaty shall be exchanged in six weeks, or sooner, if possible. In faith of which the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Treaty, and have affixed thereunto the seal of their arms. Done at Vienna the 20th of May, 1815. Signed (L. S.)

The Prince de Metternich.

[N. B. The same Treaty has been con cluded and signed between his Majesty the King of Sardinia and the Courts of London, Berlin, Petersburg, and Paris.]

ACT, No. XIV-A. A. Conditions annexed to Article IV. of the Treaty of the 20th May 1815, which are to serve as the bases of the union of the Genoese States, to those of his Sardinian Majesty.

ART. I. The Genoese shall, in every respect be placed upon the same footing with the other subjects of the King. They shall be equally eligible with them to civil, judicial, military, and diplomatic employments of the monarchy; and, excepting the privileges which are hereafter granted and guaranteed to them, they shall be subject to the same laws and regulations, with such modifications as his Majesty shall judge it expedient to introduce. The Genoese nobility shall be ad mitted, equally with the nobility of the other parts of the monarchy to the principal offices and employments of the Court.

ART. II. The Genoese military, at present composing the troops of Genoa, shall be incorporated with the royal troops; the officers and non-commissioned officers shall retain their respective ranks.

ART. III. The arms of Genoa shall be introduced in the royal escutcheon, and its colours into the flag of his Majesty.

ART. IV. The free port of Genoa shall be re-established, with the regulations which existed under the ancient government of Genoa. Every facility shall be given by the King to the transit, through his states, of merchandize proceeding from that free port, under such restrictions as his Majesty shall judge expedient for preventing the said merchandise being illicitly sold or consumed in the interior. It shall be subject only to the usual moderate duty.

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