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ACT, No. VII.-Convention between Prussia and the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimer, of the 1st June 1815.

perty, and shall unite them, in perpetuity, to his present states.

ART. II. The districts and territories which are to be ceded to his Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar, in virtue of the

In the name of the Most Holy and Undi- preceding Article, shall be determined by a

vided Trinity.

His Majesty the King of Prussia being desirous of carrying into effect the arrangements agreed upon at the Congress of Vienna, in favour of his Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar, and which his Prussian Majesty has engaged to fulfil; and his Majesty, as well as his Royal Highness the Grand Duke, having resolved to conclude a particular Treaty for this purpose, 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 the Red Eagle, of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, and of the Iron Cross of Prussia; 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 Wurtemburg, and of several others, his First Plenipotentiary at the Congress of Vienna; and the Sieur, Charles William, Baron Humboldt; his Minister of State, Chamberlain, and Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to his Imperial and Roval Apostolic Majesty, Knight of the Grand Order of the Red Eagle, of the Iron Cross of Prussia, and of the Order of St. Aune of Russia of the First Class; his Second Plenipotentiary at the Congress of Vienna; and his Royal Highness the Grand Duke of SaxeWeimar, the Sieur Ernest Augustus, Baron de Gersdorff, his Privy Counsellor; who, after having exchanged their full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed to the following Articles :

ART. I. His Majesty the King of Prussia engages to cede to his Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar, from the mass of his states, as they have been fixed and recognised by the stipulations of the Congress of Vienna, certain districts, containing a population of 50,000 inhabitants, either contiguous to, or bordering upon the principality of Weimar. His Prussian Majesty engages also to cede to his Royal Highness, in that part of the principality of Fulda which has been given up to him in virtue of the same stipulations, districts containing a population of 27,000 inhabitants. His Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Weimar shall possess the above districts in full sovereignty and pro

particular Convention; and his Majesty the King of Prussia engages to conclude this Convention, and to cause the above districts and territories to be given up to his Royal Highness, within two months from the date of the exchange of the ratifications of the present Treaty.

ART. III. In order, however, to meet the wishes of his Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar, his Majesty the King of Prussia cedes immediately, and promises to give up to his Royal Highness, in the space of a fortnight, reckoning from the signature of the present Treaty, the following districts and territories, viz.: The lordship of Blankenhayn; with the understanding, however, that the bailiwick of Wandersleben, belonging to Unter-Gleichen, shall not be comprised in this cession. The lower lordship (NiedereHerrschaft) of Kranickfeld, the comman deries of the Teutonic Order, Zwaetzen, Lehesten, and Liebstädt, with their demesnial revenues, which, constituting part of the bailiwick of Eckartsberga, form enclaves in the territory of Saxe-Weimar, as well as all the other territories lying within the principality of Weimar, and belonging to the said bailiwick. The bailiwick of Tautenbourg, with the exception of Droizen, Görschen, Wethaburg, Wetterscheid, and Möllschütz, which shall remain to Prussia. The village of Ramssla, as well as the villages of KleinBrembach and Berlstedt, lying within the principality of Weimar and belonging to the territory of Erfurth. The property of the villages of Bisschoffsroda and Probsteizalla, lying within the territory of Eisenach, the sovereignty of which already belongs to his Royal Highness the Grand Duke. The population of these different districts is understood to form part of that of 50,000 souls, secured to his Royal Highness the Grand Duke by the 1st Article, and shall be deducted from it.

ART. IV. All additional arrangements to be made, in virtue of the cessions stipulated in the 3d Article, relative to debts, records, public funds, and other objects of a similar nature, shall form part of the particular Convention mentioned in the 2d Article. His Royal Highness the Grand Duke specially engages, on obtaining possession of the principality of Fulda, according to the extent of the possessions which shall belong to him, to fulfil the engagements which will be required of the new possessors of the former Grand Duchy of Frankfort.

ART. V. The present Treaty shall be ratified, and the ratifications exchanged in four weeks. In faith of which, the undersigned Plenipotentiaries have signed it, and have

affixed thereunto the seal of their arms.

Signed. (L. S.) The Prince de Hardenberg. (L. S.) The Baron de Humboldt.

(L. S.) The Baron de Gersdorff.

AGT, No. VIII.-Convention between Prussia and the Duke and Prince of Nassau, of 31st May 1815.

The hereditary possessions of the House of Orange having been transferred as an indemnity to his Majesty the King Prussia, in virtue of the stipulations agreed upon between the powers assembled at the Congress of Vienna, and a territorial arrangement with their Serene Highnesses the Duke and Prince of Nassau, having been expressly reserved, his Majesty the King of Prussia has appointed as his Plenipotentiary to conclude such arrangement, viz. the Prince Hardenberg, his Chancellor of State, Knight of the Grand Orders of the Black Eagle and of the Red Eagle, of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, and of the Iron Cross of Prussia; of the Order 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 the Supreme Order of the Annunciation of Sardinia; Knight of the Order of the Seraphim of Sweden, of the Order of the Elephant of Denmark, of St. Hubert of Bavaria, of the Golden Eagle of Würtemberg, and of several others; his First Plenipotentiary at the Congress of Vienna. And their Serene Highnesses the Duke and Prince of Nassau, Ernest Francis Louis Marschal de Bieberstein, Grand Cross of the Order of Fidelity of Baden, and their Principal Minister of State and Plenipotentiary at the Congress; who, after having exchanged their full powers, have agreed on the following Articles:

breitstein, together with the mills of Arzheim, Pfaffendorf and Horchheim, forming part of

the bailiwick of Ehrenbreitstein. 17. The bailiwick of Braunfels. 18. That of Greifenstein. 19. That of Hohensolms.

ART. II. His Majesty the King of Prussia, on his part, cedes to their Serene Highnesses the Duke and Prince of Nassau, with all the rights of sovereignty and property thereunto belonging; 1. The three principalities formerly possessed by the House of Nassau-Orange, viz. Diez, Hadamar, and Dillenbourg, including the lordship of Beilstein; excepting, however, the bailiwicks of Burbach and Neunkirchen. 2. A part of the Principality of Siegen, and of the bailiwicks of Burbach and Neunkirchen, containing a population of 12,000 inhabitants, and composed of communes contiguous to the principality of Dillenbourg. 3. Lastly, the lordships of Westerburg and Schadeck, and that part of the bailiwick of Runkel which belonged to the former Grand Duchy of Berg.

ART. III. The part of the principality of Siegen, and of the bailiwicks of Burbach and Neunkirchen, which is to be ceded in virtue of the above Articles, shall be determined by Commissioners, to be appointed by the two High Contracting parties, with as little delay as possible, and, at furthest, within four weeks after the ratification of the present Treaty; but, at all events, previously to the taking possession of the provinces belonging to the House of Nassau-Orange. The Commissioners shall conform to the principle of the contiguity of these portions with the respective territories; and they shall take especial care that the relations with regard to communes, to the church, and to industry, as they at present exist, shall be maintained. Under the relations of industry, are specially included those which relate to the working of mines. In the event of these Commissioners not agreeing, upon one or other of these points, they are authorized to refer to an Arbitrator, of their own appointment, whose decision shall be final.

ART. I. Their Serene Highnesses the Duke and Prince of Nassau, cede to his Majesty the King of Prussia, in full sovereignty and property, the bailiwicks, parishes, and places ART. IV. The bailiwicks and portions of hereafter mentioned: 1. The bailiwick of territory to be reciprocally ceded, in conforLinz. 2. The bailiwick of Altenwied. 3. The mity to the 1st, 2d, and 3d Articles, shall be bailiwick of Schoeneberg. 4. The bailiwick transferred to the future possessor, with all of Altenkirchen. 5. The parish of Stamm, for- the precincts of the communes belonging merly composing part of the bailiwick of Hack- thereto, together with all the public and deenburg. 6. The bailiwick of Schoenstein. mesnial property contained in these territo7. That of Freusberg. 8. That of Friedewald. ries, under whatever denomination they may 9. That of Dierdorff. 10. The detached part have been held, or whatever be the title by of the bailiwick of Hersbach, bordering on which they may have been acquired. Neither Altenkirchen. 11. The bailiwick of Neuer-party shall possess enclaves in the territory of berg. 12. That of Hamsstein, together with Irlich and Engers. 13. The bailiwick of Heddesdorf. 14. The town of Neuwied. 15. The communes of Gladbach, Heimbach, Weiss, Sayn, Mühlhofen, Bendorf, Weiters burg, Vallendar, and Mallendar, forming part of the bailiwick of Vallendar. 16. The communes of Nieder-Werth, Niederberg, Urbar, Immendorf, Neudorff, Ahrenberg, Ehren

the other, and particularly the abbeys of Bomersdorf, Sayn, Niederwerth, and Besselick, situated in the communes ceded by Art. I. shall be comprehended in the Prussian territory, with all their property inclosed within the Prussian limits. The two Contracting Parties renounce reciprocally, in behalf of each other, all revenues, rights of suzeraineté, feudal, or other rights, of whatever descrip

tion, which might have belonged to one party in the territory of the other. The utensils of the mint of Ehrenbreitstein, the furniture in the castle of Engers, and the yachts belonging to their Serene Highnesses the Duke and Prince of Nassau, are reserved to them, to be taken away in three months from the date of the ratification of the present Treaty.

ART. V. In order to insure and complete the fortifications and defence of the ancient fortress of Ehrenbreitstein, situated in the territory ceded by the House of Nassau; in case it should be considered expedient to reestablish it, it is agreed, that Prussia shall, in general, be at liberty to erect military works wherever it may be thought proper, at the distance of 1,500 Rhenish yards (Rheinlandische ruthen) from the fortress, even in those communes which may remain under the sovereignty of the House of Nassau, an indemnity being, however, given to the landowners, and without prejudice to territorial relations.

ART. VI. In order that the cessions agreed upon in Article I. may not prove detrimental to the commerce of the Duchy of Nassau, it is agreed, that the import and export trade on the Rhine, by roads leading to that river, through Ehrenbreitstein and Vallendar, shall not experience any obstacle, in respect to the inhabitants of that Duchy, nor be subjected to any new charges.

ART. VII. With respect to arrears of revenues, and the surplus of the public chests, the same principles shall be acted upon as have been adopted, and are now observed, in regard to similar objects towards his Majesty the King of the Netherlands, in those proportions of territory which have been transferred to his said Majesty by his Majesty the King of Prussia.

ART. VIII. With regard to debts belonging to the ceded portions of territory, it is agreed; A. That the private debts of the communes, parishes, bailiwicks, districts, or provinces, shall be transferred, with these communes, parishes, bailiwicks, districts, and provinces, to their future possessor, and shall continue to belong to them. When the bailiwicks, districts, or provinces, shall have been divided, the debts of these bailiwicks, districts, or provinces, respectively, shall be shared between the two governments, in the proportion in which the ceded parts have hitherto contributed to the payment of interest and the reimbursement of the capital; or, if this proportion cannot be settled, in that in which these countries have in general contributed to the ordinary expenses.-B. The debts of the public chests and chamber of finance, of the Duchy of Nassau, such as their amount was ascertained to be on the 31st December 1814, shall be divided between the two parties, in the proportion of the net revenues which the eeded territories have annually paid into the eentral state chests and the chamber of (VOL. XXXII. )

finance, taking for average the five years immediately preceding 1812, adding thereto, however, the net revenue of the bailiwick of Runkel, in the year 1814.-C. The State debts, and those of the chamber of finance, of the Princes of Nassau-Orange, shall be divided between the two Contracting Parties, in the proportion, and according to the period already agreed upon, taking as the average the net revenues of the chamber of NassauOrange, in the five years from 1801 to 1805, and adding to each of these years the net revenues of the lordships of Westerburg and Schadeck, such as they were in 1814.-D. The debts of Nassau-Saarbruck, with which the State chest of the Duchy of Nassau may yet be burthened, are not comprised in this distribution, but shall remain exclusively at the charge of the House of the Duke and Prince of Nassau.

ART. IX. The pensions which have been granted for services rendered to a particular part of territory, or which are charged upon secularized property lying in one of those parts; in a word, all pensions which, according to the nature of their origin, belonging to any territory in particular, shall be paid by the party possessing the property upon which they were originally assigned. The pensions granted to the army shall be paid by the government possessing the territory where the pensioner was born. All other pensions, which do not come under this head, shall be divided in proportion to the revenues, in the manner which has been settled for public debts. Annuities shall be provided for in the same manner as debts, and paid, either wholly or in part, by the two governments, according as different parts of a territory, or a whole country, are burthened with them.

ART. X. The local functionaries, and other persons in office, shall go with the territories ceded in the divided bailiwicks; the government to whom the place of their actual residence may pass, shall accept their services. All central and provincial funetionaries employed in the administrations of Wiesbaden, Weilburg, Diez, and Dillenbourg, shall either continue with, or be transferred to the House of Nassau. Prussia shall take charge of those of Ehrenbreitstein. The cen tral functionaries who cannot continue in the service of either of the two governments, or who shall be allowed to retire, by either party, in three months from the date of the present Convention, shall receive the pensions or superannuations fixed by the Edict of the Duke and Prince of Nassau, of the 3d and 6th December 1811. These pensions shall be paid by the two governments, according to the rate agreed upon with respect to debts. No public officer who is to be provided for by either government, shall be placed upon a less favourable footing than that fixed in the said Edict.

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ART. XIV. Prussia undertakes to fulfil the engagements entered into by the Ducal House of Nassau, relative to the post of Taxis, as far as these engagements attach to those parts of the territory which are ceded to that power.

ART. XV. The high road from Giessen to Ehrenbreitstein, which crosses the country of Nassau, shall be made a military road for Prussia, to establish a communication between Erfurth and Coblentz. Whatever has been agreed upon with respect to the military roads belonging to Prussia, which pass through the states of the King of Hanover and the Elector of Hesse, shall be applicable to the said road from Giessen to Ehrenbreitstein.

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archives as concern the House of Orange, and have no relation to the ceded countries, and all the private and personal property of his Majesty the King of the Netherlands, his library, collections of maps, and other similar objects, shall be retained by his Majesty, and be delivered up to him immediately. A part of the said possessions having been exchanged against possessions of the Duke and Prince of Nassau, his Majesty the King of Prussia engages, and his Majesty the King of the Netherlands consents, to transfer the engagement stipulated by the present Article to their Serene Highnesses the Duke and Prince of Nassau, as far as regards that part of the said possessions which shall be united to their States." Their Serene Highnesses the Duke and Prince of Nassau engage to fulfil, in the name and place of his Majesty the King of Prussia, the engagements he has contracted on their account, as far as these engagements concern the territories and portions of territory belonging to the House of Nassau-Orange which, by the present Treaty, are ceded to them.

ART. XVIII. The ratifications of this Convention shall be exchanged in four weeks, or sooner, if possible. The ceded subjects shall be at once released from the oaths of fidelity which bound them to their former Sovereigns. In faith of which the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Convention, and have caused to be affixed thereunto the seal of their arms. Done at Vienna the 31st May 1815.

Signed (L. S.) The Prince de Hardenberg. (L. S.) Marschall de Bieberstein.

ACT, No IX.

Federative Constitution of
In the name of the Most Holy and Undi-
Germany, of the 8th June 1815.
vided Trinity.

ART. XVI. In order to settle definitively all such points as require ulterior arrangement, especially such as relate to debts, pensions, public functionaries, and other persons in office, the two governments shall appoint Commissioners, immediately after the ratifi- The Sovereign Princes and free towns of cations of the present Treaty, who shall as- Germany, animated with the mutual desire semble at Wiesbaden, for the purpose of set- of carrying into effect the 6th Article of the tling all such arrangements with as little Treaty of Paris of the 30th May 1814, and delay as possible. They shall be empowered convinced of the advantages which will result to take such measures as may be necessary, to the safety and independence of Germany, in order that the payment of the interest of and to the equilibrium of Europe, from their public debts, and that of pensions, may not solid and lasting union, have agreed to form experience any interruption, that the public a perpetual Confederation, and have for this credit may not be shaken, and that the busi-purpose invested with their full powers their ness of the public offices may be conducted Envoys and Deputies at the Congress of as heretofore. Vienna, viz.

ART. XVII. As the Convention concluded the 31st May, between their Majesties the King of Prussia and of the Netherlands, relative to mutual cessions of territory, contains an Article, worded as follows: "A commission shall be named, without delay, by his Majesty the King of Prussia and his Majesty the King of the Netherlands, to determine all matters that relate to the cession of his Majesty's Nassau possessions, with regard to archives, debts, excesses of public chests, and other objects of the same nature. Such part of the

His Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty, the Sieur Clement Wenceslas, Prince of Metternich Winnebourg Ochsenhausen, Knight of the Golden Fleece, Grand Cross of the Royal Order of St. Stephen of Hungary, Knight of the Order 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 Seraphin, of St. Joseph of Tuscany, of St.

His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, the Sieur Francis Christopher, Baron de Gagern; Minister Plenipotentiary of his Majesty the King of the Netherlands, and of their Serene Highnesses the Duke and Prince of Nassau, Grand Cross of the Order of the Golden Lion of Hesse, and of Fidelity of Baden.

of the Royal Order of St. Stephen of Hungary, his Britannic-Hanoverian Majesty's Minister of State and of the Cabinet, and his First Plenipotentiary at the Congress at Vienna; and the Sieur Ernest Augustus, Count Hardenberg, Grand Cross of the Imperial Order of Leopold of Austria, Knight of the Royal Order of the Red Eagle of Prussia, and of St. John of Jerusalem; his Britannic-Hanoverian Majesty's Minister of State and of the Cabinet, his Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of his Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty, and his Second Plenipotentiary at the Congress of Vienna.

Hubert, of the Golden Eagle of Wurtemburg, 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, Privy Counsellor of his Majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, his Minister of State, of Conferences, and of Foreign Affairs; his First Plenipotentiary at His Majesty the King of Great Britain and the Congress; and the Sieur John Philip, Hanover, the Sieur Ernest Frederic Herbert, Baron Wessenberg, Grand Cross of the Royal Count de Munster, Hereditary Grand MarSardinian Order of St. Mauritius and St. La-shal of the Kingdom of Hanover, Grand Cross zarus, and of the Royal Order of the Crown of Bavaria, Chamberlain, and Privy Counsellor of his Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty, his Second Plenipotentiary at the Congress: His Majesty the King of Prussia, the Prince Hardenberg, his Chancellor of State, Knight of the Order of the Black Eagle, of the Red Eagle, of St. John of Jerusalem and of the Iron Cross of Prussia, of the order 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 Eagle of the Legion of Honour, Knight of the Order of St. Charles of Spain, of the Annunciation of Sardinia, of the Order of the Seraphim of Sweden, of the Elephant of Denmark, of St. Hubert of Bavaria, of the Golden Eagle of Wurtemburg, and of several others; and the Sieur Charles William, Baron Humboldt, Minister of State of his said Majesty, Chamberlain, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to his Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty, Knight of the Order of the Red Eagle, of the Iron Cross of Prussia of the First Class; Grand Cross of the Imperial Order of Leopold of Austria, and of St. Anne of Russia of the First Class; of the Order of Merit, and of the Crown of Bavaria.

His Majesty the King of Denmark, the Sieur Günther, Count de Bernstorf, his Privy Counsellor of Conferences, Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of his Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty, and his Plenipotentiary at the Congress; Knight of the Order of the Elephant, Grand Cross of the Order of Dannebrog, and of the Royal Order of St. Stephen of Hungary; and the Sieur Joachim Frederic, Count de Bernstorf, his Privy Counsellor of Conferences, his Plenipotentiary at the Congress, and Grand Cross of the Order of Dannebrog.

His Majesty the King of Bavaria, the Sieur Aloysius Francis Xavier, Count de Rechberg and Rothenlowen, Chamberlain and Privy Counsellor, Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Imperial and Royal Court; Grand Cross of the Order of St. Hubert, Titular Commander of the Order of St. George, and Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Merit of Bavaria.

His Majesty the King of Saxony, the Sieur John Augustus Furchtegott de Globig, his Privy Counsellor, Chamberlain, Counsellor of the Court and of Justice, and Confidential Referendary.

His Royal Highness the Elector of Hesse, the Sieur Dorotheus Louis, Count de Keller, his Minister of State, Grand Cross of the Order of the Golden Lion and of the Red Eagle of Prussia, and the Sieur George Ferdinand, Baron de Lepel, his Chamberlain and Privy Counsellor of Government.

His Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Hesse, the Sieur John, Baron Turckheim von Altdorff, his Privy Counsellor, Minister of State and Envoy Extraordinary to the Congress; Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of Hesse, and Commander of the Royal Order of St. Stephen of Hungary.

His Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar, the Sieur Ernest Augustus, Baron de Gersdorff, his Privy Counsellor; the Sieur Frederick Augustus, Baron de Minckwitz acting in his stead.

His Serene Highness the Duke of SaxeGotha, the Sieur Frederick Augustus, Baron de Minckwitz, his Privy Counsellor.

Her Serene Highness the Duchess of SaxeCobourg-Meinungen, in the capacity of Regent and Guardian to her son, the said Baron de Minckwitz.

His Serene Highness the Duke of SaxeHildburghausen, the Sieur Charles Lours Frederick Baron de Baumbach, his Privy Counsellor, and President of the government. His Serene Highness the Duke of SaxeCobourg-Saalfeld, the Sieur Francis Xavier de Fischler von Treuberg, Colonel, Knight of the Imperial Order of Leopold of Austria, and of the Crown of Bavaria.

His Serene Highness the Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel, in the absence of the Sieur William Justus Eberhardt Schmidt Phiseldeck, his Privy Counsellor, has named the Sieur Dorotheus Louis Count de Keller, Minister of State to the Elector of Hesse, &c. &c.

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