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date of the exchange of the ratifications shall be allowed to the inhabitants, natives or foreigners, of whatever condition and nation they may be, to dispose of their property, if they should think fit so to do, and to retire to whatever country they may choose.

8. All the dispositions of the Treaty of Paris of the 30th of May, 1814, relative to the countries ceded by that treaty, shall equally apply to the several territories and districts ceded by the present treaty.

9. The High Contracting Parties having caused representation to be made of the different claims arising cut of the non-execution of the 19th and following Articles of the Treaty of the 30th of May, 1814, as well as of the Additional Articles of that Treaty signed between Great Britain and France, desiring to render more efficacious the stipulations made thereby, and having determined, by two separate Conventions, the line to be pursued on each side for that purpose, the said two Conventions, as annexed to the present Treaty, shall, in order to secure the complete execution of the above-mentioned Articles, have the same force and effect as if the same were inserted, word for word, herein.

30th of May, 1814, and the final Act of the Congress of Vienna of the 9th of June 1815, are confirmed, and shall be maintained in all such of their enactments as shall not have been modified by the Articles of the present Treaty.

12. The present Treaty, with the Conventions annexed thereto, shall be ratified in one act, and the ratifications thereof shall be exchanged in the space of two months, or sooner, if possible.

In witness whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have affixed thereunto the seals of their arms.

Done at Paris this 20th day
of November, in the year
of our Lord 1815.
(Signed)

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The High Contracting Powers, sincerely desiring to give effect to the measures on which they deliberated at the Congress of Vienna, relative to the complete and universal abolition of the Slave Trade, and having, each in their respective dominions, prohibited, without restriction, their colonies and subjects from taking any part whatever in this traffic, engage to renew conjointly their efforts, with the view of securing final success to those principles which they proclaimed in the Declaration of the 4th of February, 1815, and of concerting, without loss of time, through their Ministers at the Courts of London and of Paris, the most effectual measures 11. The Treaty of Paris of the for the entire and definitive abo

10. All prisoners taken during the hostilities, as well as all hostages which may have been carried off or given, shall be restored in the shortest time possible. The same shall be the case with respect to the prisoners taken previously to the Treaty of the 30th of May, 1814, and who shall not already have been restored.

lition of a commerce so odious, so strongly condemned by the laws of religion and of nature.

The present additional Article shall have the same force and effect as if it were inserted, word for word, in the Treaty, signed this day. It shall be included in the ratification of the said Treaty.

In witness whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have affixed thereunto the seals of their arms.

Done at Paris this 20th day
of November, in the year
of our Lord, 1815.
(Signed)

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Concluded in conformity to the Fourth Article of the Principal Treaty, relative to the Payment of the Pecuniary Indemnity to be furnished by France to the Allied Powers.

The payment to which France has bound herself to the Allied Powers as an Indemnity by the Fourth Article of the Treaty of this day, shall take place in this form and at the periods prescribed by the following Articles.

Art. 1. The sum of seven hundred millions of francs, being the amount of the indemnity, shall be discharged day by day, in equal portions, in the space of five years, by means of Bons au Porteur on the Royal Treasury of France, in the manner that shall be now set forth.

2. The Treasury shall give over immediately to the Allied Powers fifteen engagements for forty-six millions and two-thirds

each, forming together the sum of seven hundred millions; the first engagement payable on the 31st of March, 1816, the second on the 31st of July of the same year, and so on, in every fourth month, during the five successive years.

3. These engagements shall not be negotiable, but they shall be periodically exchanged against Bons au Porteur, negotiable, drawn in the form used in the ordinary service of the Royal Treasury.

4. In the month which shall precede the four, in the course of which an engagement is to be paid, that engagement shall be divided by the Treasury of France, into Bons au Porteur payable in Paris, in equal portions, from the first to the last day of the four months.

Thus the engagement of fortysix millions and two-thirds, falling due the 31st of March, 1816, shall be exchanged in the month of November, 1815, against Bons au Porteur payable in equal portions from the 1st of December, 1815, to the 3d of March, 1816; the engagement of fortysix millions and two-thirds, which will fall due the 31st of July, 1816, shall be exchanged in the month of March, in the same year, against Bons au Porteur payable in equal portions from the 1st of April, 1816, to the 31st of July, of the same year; and so on, every four months.

5. No single Bon au Porteur shall be delivered for the sum due each day, but the sum so due, shall be divided into several Coupures or bills of one thousand, two thousand, five thousand, ten thousand, and twenty thousand francs,

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the which sums added together, will amount to the sum total of payment due each day.

6. The Allied Powers convinced that it is as much their interest as that of France, that too considerable a sum of Bons au Porteur should not be issued at once, agree, that there never shall be in circulation Bons for more than fifty millions of francs at a time.

7. No interest shall be paid by France for the delay of five years, which the Allied Powers allow to her for the payment of the seven hundred millions of francs.

8. On the 1st of January, 1816, there shall be made over by France to the Allied Powers, as a guarantee for the regularity of the payment, a fund of interest inscribed in the Grand Livre of the Public Debt of France, of seven millions of francs, on a capital of one hundred and forty millions.

This fund of interest shall be used to make good, if there should be need of it, the deficiences in the Acceptances of the French Government, and to render the payments equal, at the end of every six months, to the Bons au Porteur, which shall have fallen due, as shall be hereafter detailed.

9. This fund of interest shall be inscribed in the name of such persons as the Allied Powers shall point out; but these persons cannot be the holders of the inscriptions, except in the case provided for in the eleventh article ensuing. The Allied Powers further reserve to themselves, the right to transfer the inscriptions to

other names, as often as they shall judge necessary.

10. The deposit of these inscriptions shall be confided to one Treasurer named by the Allied Powers, and to another named by the French Government.

11. There shall be a mixed Commission, composed of an equal number on both sides, of Allied and French Commissioners, who shall examine, every six months, the state of the payments, and shall regulate the balance. The Bons of the Treasury paid, shall constitute the payments; those which shall not yet have been presented to the Treasury of France, shall enter into the account of the subsequent balance; those also which shall have fallen due, been presented, and not paid, shall constitute the arrear, and the sum of inscriptions to be applied at the market price of the day, to cover the deficit. As soon as that operation shall have taken place, the Bons unpaid shall be given up to the French Commissioners, and the mixed Commission shall order the treasurers to pay over the sum so determined upon, and the treasurers shall be authorized and obliged to pay it over to the Commissioners of the Allied Powers, who shall dispose of it as they shall think proper.

12. France engages to replace immediately in the hands of the treasurers, an amount of inscriptions equal to that which may have been made use of, according to the foregoing article, in order that the fund stipulated in the eighth article may be always kept at its full amount.

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rest of five per cent. per annum from the date of the Bons au Porteur falling due, upon all such Bons, the payment of which may have been delayed by the act of France.

14. When the first six hundred millions of francs shall have been paid, the Allies, in order to accelerate the entire liberation of France, will accept, should it be agreeable to the French Government, the fund mentioned in the 8th Article at the market price of that day, to such an amount as will be equal to the remainder due of the seven hundred millions.

France will only have to furnish the difference, should any exist.

15. Should this plan not be convenient to France, the hundred millions of francs, which would remain due, may be discharged in the manner pointed out in the 2d, 3d, 4th, and 5th Articles; and after the complete payment of the seven hundred millions, the inscriptions stipulated for in the 8th Article shall be returned to France.

16. The French Government engages to execute, independently of the pecuniary indemnity stipulated by the present Convention, all the engagements stipulated for in the special Conventions concluded with the different powers and their Co-Allies, relative to the cloathing and equip

ment of their armies, and engages for the exact deliverance and payment of the Bon and Mandats arising from the said Conventions, in as far as they shall not have been already discharged at the time of the signature of the VOL. LVII.

principal Treaty, and of the present Convention.

Done at Paris this 20th day of November, in the year of our Lord, 1815.

(Signed) (L.S.) CASTLEREAGH. (L.S.) WELLINGTON. (Signed) (L.S.) RICHELIEU.

Extract of a Protocol for regulating the Dispostions relative to the Territories and Places ceded by France, by Articles 1, 2, and 3, of Treaty.

The Ministers of the Imperial and Royal Courts of Austria, of Russia, of Great Britain, and of Prussia, having taken into consideration the measures become necessary by those arrangements with France which are to terminate the present war, have agreed to lay down in the present Protocol, the dispositions relative to the territorial cessions to be made by France, and to the contributions destined for strengthening the line of defence of the bordering States.

Art. 1.-Kingdom of the Low Countries. Considering that his Majesty the King of the Low Countries ought to participate in a just proportion in the advantages resulting from the present arrangement with France, and considering the state of his frontiers on the side of that country, it is agreed, that the districts which formed part of the Belgic Provinces, of the Bishopric of Liege, and of the Duchy of Bouillon, as well as the towns of Philippeville and Marienbourg, with their territories, which France is to cede to the Allies, shall be assigned to his Majesty the King of the Low 2 E Countries,

Countries, to be united to his do

ninions.

His Majesty the King of the Low Countries shall receive, moreover. out of that part of the French contribution which is destined towards strengthening the line of defence of the States bordering upon France, the sum of sixty millions of francs, which shall be laid out in fortifying the frontiers of the Low Countries, in conformity with the plans and regulations which the Powers shall settle in this respect.

It is besides agreed, that in consideration of the advantages which his Majesty the King of the Low Countries will derive from these dispostions, both in the increase of, and in the means for defending his territory; that that proportion of the pecuniary indem-, nity payable by France to which his said Majesty might lay claim shall serve towards putting the indemnities of Austria and Prussia on the level of a just proportion.

2. Acquisitions of Prussia.The districts which, by the new treaty of France, will be detached from the French territory in the department of the Sarre and the Moselle, including the fortress of Saare-Louis, shall be united to the dominions of the King of Prussia.

3. Acquisitions of Austria.The territories which France is to cede in the department of the Lower Rhine, including the town and fortress of Landau, shall be united to those possessions on the left bank of the Rhine, which devolve to his Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty by the final act of the Congress of Vicuna. His

Majesty may dispose of his possessions on the left bank of the Rhine in the territorial arrangements with Bavaria, and other States of the Germanic Confedera

tion.

4. Helvetic Confederation,Versoix, with that part of the Pays de Gex which is to be ceded by France, shall be united to Switzerland, and form part of the canton of Geneva.

The neutrality of Switzerland shall be extended to that territory, which is placed north of a line to be drawn from Ugina, (including that town) to the mouth of the Lake of Annecy, and from thence to the Lake of Bourget, as far as the Rhone, in the same manner as it has been extended to the provinces of Chablis and Faucigny, by the 92d Article of the final Act of the Congress of Vienna.

5. Sardinia. -In order that his Majesty the King of Sardinia may participate, in a just proportion, in the advantages resulting from the present arrangement with France, it is agreed, that the portion of Savoy which remained to France in virtue of the Treaty of Paris of the 30th of May, 1814, shall be re-united to the dominions of his said Majesty, with the exception of the Commune of St. Julian, which shall be given up to the Canton of Geneva.

The Cabinets of the Allied Courts will use their good offices for inducing his Sardinian Majesty to cede to the Canton of Geneva the Communes of Chesne, Thonex, and some others necessary for disengaging the Swiss territory of Jassy from the effects

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