the Vallais and the canton of Geneva; and ART. LXXXIII. To conciliate disputes the different governments, shall for this pur- | respecting lauds abolished without indemnipose take such measures as, by common fication, an indemnity shall be given to peragreement, they shall judge necessary, either sons who are owners of such lauds; and for for taxation or for preventing contraband the purpose of avoiding all further differences trade in their territories, respectively.

on this subject between the cantons of Berne. ART. LXXXI. With a view to the estab- and Vaud, the latter shall pay to the governlishing of reciprocal compensations, the can- ment of Berne, the sum of 300,000 Swiss tons Argovia, Vaud, Tessin, and St. Gall, livres, which shall be shared between the shall furnish to the ancient cantons of Schwitz, Bernese claimants, propietors of lauds. The Unterwald, Uri, Glaris, Zug and Appenzell payments shall be made at the rale of a fifth (Rhode Interior) a sum of money to be ap- part each year, commencing from January 1, plied to purposes of public instruction, and to 1816. the expenses of general administration, but ART. LXXXIV. The Declaration of the principally to the former object, in the said 20th March, addressed by the Allied Powers cantons.-The quota, manner of payment,and who signed the Treaty of Paris, to the Diet division of this pecuniary compensation, are of the Swiss Confederation, and accepted by fixed as follows: The cantons of Argovia, the Diet through the Act of Adhesion of Vaud, and St. Gall, shall furnish to the can- May 27th, is confirmed in the whole of its tons of Schwitz, Unterwald, Uri, Zug, Glaris, tenor; and the principles established, as also and Appenzell (Rhode Interior) a fund of the arrangements agreed upon, in the said 500,000 Swiss livres.-Each of the former Declaration, shall be invariably maintained. cantons shall pay the interest of its quota, at ART. LXXXV. The frontiers of the states the rate of five per cent. per annum, or have of his Majesty the King of Sardinia shall be : the option of discharging the principal either on the side of France, such as they were on in money or funded property.' The division, the 1st of January 1792, with the exception either of the payment or receipt of these of the changes effected by the Treaty of funds, shall be made according to the scale of Paris of 30th May 1814. On the side of the contributions laid down for providing the Helvetic Confederation, such as they existed federal expenses. The canton of Tessin shall on the 1st of January 1792, with the exceppay every year to the canton of Uri, a moiety tion of the change produced by the cession in of the produce of the tolls in the Levantine favour of the canton of Geneva, as specified valley.

by the 80th Article of the present Act. On ART. LXXXII. To put an end to the dis- the side of the states of his Majesty the Emcussions which have arisen, with respect to peror of Austria, such as they existed on the the funds placed in England by the cantons 1st of January 1792; and the Convention of Zurich and Berne, it is determined; 1. concluded between their Majesties the EmThat the cantons of Berne and Zurich shall press Maria Theresa, and the King of Sarpreserve the property of the funded capital as dinia, on the 4th of October 1751, shall be it existed in 1803, at the period of the disso, reciprocally confirmed in all its stipulations. lution of the Helvetic government, and shall On the side of the states of Parma and Pla receive the interest thereof from January 1st, centia, the frontier, as far as it concerns the 1815. 2. That the accumulated interest due ancient states of the King of Sardinia, shall since the year 1798, up to the year 1814, in- continue to be the same as they were on the clusive, shall be applied to the payment of 1st of January 1792.—The borders of the the remaining capital of the national debt, former states of Genoa, and of the countries known under the denomination of the Hel- called Imperial Fiefs, united to the states of vetic debt. 3. That the surplus of the Hel- his Majesty the King of Sardinia, according vetic debt shall remain at the charge of the to the following Articles, shall be the same as other cantons, those of Berne and Zurich those, which on the 1st of January 1792, sebeing exonerated by the above arrangement. parated those countries from the states of The quota of each of the cantons, which Parma and Placentia, and from those of Tusremain charged with this surplus, shall be cany and Massa.

The island of Capraja, calculated and paid according to the propor- having belonged to the ancient republic of tion fixed for the contributions destined to Genoa, is included in the cession of the states defray federal expenses. The countries in- of Genoa, to his Majesty the King of Sardinia. corporated with Switzerland since 1813, shall ART. LXXXVI. The states which connot be assessed on account of the old Hel- stituted the former républic of Genoa, are vetic debt.—If it shall happen that an over- united in perpetuity to those of his Majesty plus remains after discharging the above debt, the King of Sardinia; to be, like the latter, that overplus shall be divided between the possessed by him in full sovereignty and cantons of Berne and Zurich, in the propor- hereditary property; and to descend, in the tion of their respective capitals. The same male line, in the order of primogeniture, to regulations shall be observed with regard to the two branches of his house, viz.; the those other debts the documents concerning royal branch, and the branch of Savoy which are deposited in the custody of the Carignan. president of the Diet.

ART. LXXXVII. The King of Sardinia

shall add to his present titles, that of Duke as legitimate Sovereign of the provinces and of Genoa.

territories which had been ceded, either ART. LXXXVIII. The Genoese shall enjoy wholly or in part, by the Treaties of Campoall the rights and privileges, specified in the Formo of 1797, of Luneville of 1801, of Act, intituled “ Conditions which are to Presburg of 1805, by the additional Convenserve as the bases of the union of the Genoese tion of Pontainbleau of 1807, and by the states to those of his Sardinian Majesty," and Treaty of Viema of 1809; the possession the said Act, such as it is annexed to this of which provinces and territories his ImpeGeneral Treaty, shall be considered as an Mal and Royal Apostolic Majesty obtained in integral part thereof, and shall have the consequence of the last war; such as, Istria, same force and validity, as if it were tex- Austrian as well as heretofore Venetian, tually inserted in the present Article.

Dalmatia, the ancient Venetian isles of the ART. LXXXIX. The countries called Adriatic, the mouths of the Cattaro, the city of Imperial Fiets, formerly united to the ancient Venice, with its waters, as well as all the Ligurian republic, are definitively united to other provinces and districts of the forinerly the states of his Majesty the King of Sar- Venetian States of the Terra Firma, upon the dinia, in the same manner as the rest of the left bank of the Adige, the duchies of Milan Genoese states; and the inhabitants of these and Mantua, the principalities of Brixen countries shall enjoy the same rights and and Trente, the county of Tyrol, the Voralprivileges as those of the states of Genoa, berg, the Austrian Frioul, the ancient Venespecified in the preceding Article.

tian Frioul, the territory of Montefalcone, the ART. XC. The right that the Powers who government and town of Trieste, Carniola, signed the Treaty of Paris of the 30th May Upper Carinthia, Croatia on the right of the 1814, reserved to themselves by the 3d Art. Save, Fiume, and the Hungarian Littorale, of that Treaty, of fortifying such points of and the district of Castua. their states as they might judge proper for ART. XCIV. His Imperial and Royal their safety, is equally reserved, without re- Apostolic Majesty shall unite to his mostriction, to his Majesty the King of Sardinia. narchy, to be possessed by him and his suc

ART. XCI. His Majesty the king of Sar- cessors, in full property and sovereignty; 1. dinia cedes to the canton of Geneva, the Besides the portions of the Terra-Firma in districts of Savoy, designated in the '80th the Venetian states mentioned in the preArticle above recited, according to the condi- ceding Article, the other parts of those states, tions specified in the Act, intituled “Cession as well as all other territory situated between made by his Majesty the king of Sardinia to the Tessin, the Po, and the Adriatic sea. 2. the canton of Geneva.” This Act shall be The vallies of the Valteline, of Bormio, and considered as an integral part of this General of Chiavenna. 3. The territories which forTreaty, to which it is annexed, and shall have merly composed the republic of Ragusa. the same force and validity as if it were tex- ART. XCV. In consequence of the stiputually inserted in the present Article. lations agreed upon in the preceding Articles,

AKT. XCII. The provinces of Chablais the frontiers of the states of his Imperial and and Faucigny, and the whole of the territory Royal Apostolic Majesty, in Italy shall be; of Savoy to the North of Ugine, belonging to 1. On the side of the states of his Majesty his Majesty the King of Sardinia, shall form the King of Sardinia, such as they were on . a part of the neutrality of Switzerland, as it the 1st of January 1792. 2. On the side of is recognised and guaranteed by the Powers. the states of Parma, Placentia, and Guastalla, Whenever, therefore, the neighbouring powers the course of the Po, the line of demarcation to Switzerland are in a state of open or im- following the Thalweg of the river. 3. On pending hostility, the troops of his Majesty the side of the states of Modena, such as the King of Sardinia which may be in those they were on the 1st of January 1792. 4. provinces, shall retire, and may for that pur- On the side of the Papal states, the course of pose pass through the Vallais, if necessary. the Po, as far as the mouth of the Gozo. 5. No other armed troops of any other power On the side of Switzerland, the ancient frontier shall have the privilege of passing through of Lombardy, and that which separates the or remaining in the said territories and pro- vallies of the Valteline, of Bormio, and Chiavinces, excepting those which the Swiss Con-venna, from the cantons of tite Grisons, and the federation shall think proper to place there; Tessino.- In those places where the Thalweg it being well understood, that this state of of the Po forms the frontier, it is agreed, that things shall not in any manner interrupt the the changes which the course of the river administration of these countries, in which may undergo shall not, in future, in any way the civil agents of his Majesty the King of affect the property of the islands therein Sardinia may likewise employ the municipal contained. guard, for the preservation of good order. ART. XCVI. The general principles,

ART. XCIII. In pursuance of the renun- adopted by the Congress at Vienna, for the ciations agreed upon by the Treaty of Paris navigation of rivers, shall be applicable to of the 30th May 1814, the Powers who sign that of the Po. Commissioners shall be the present Treaty, recognize his Majesty the named by the states bordering on rivers, emperor of Austria, his heirs and successors, within three months at latest after the ter

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mination of the Congress, to regulate all that grand duchy of Tuscany and its dependencies, concerns the execution of the present Article. which he possessed previous to the Treaty of

ART. XCVII. As it is indispensable to Luneville.-The stipulations of the 2d Article preserve, to the establishment known by the of the Treaty of Vienna, of the 3d of October, name of the Mont-Napoleon at Milan, the 1735, between the Emperor Charles 6 and the means of fulfilling its engagements towards King of France, to which the other powers its creditors; it is agreed, that the landed acceded, are fully renewed in favour of his and other immovable property of this esta Imperial

. Highness and his descendants, as blishment, in countries which formed part well as the guarantees resulting from those of the ancient kingdom of Italy, and have stipulations. There shall be likewise united since passed under the government of dif- to the said grand duchy, to be possessed in ferent princes of Italy, as well as the capital full property and sovercignty by the Grand belonging to the said establishment placed Duke Ferdinand, his heirs and descendants; out at interest in these different countries, 1. The state of the Presidii

. 2. That part of shall be appropriated to the same object. the island of Elba, and its appurtenances, The unfunded and unliquidated debts of the which were under the suzeraineté of his Mas Mont-Napoleon, such as those arising from jesty the King of the Two Sicilies before the the arrears of its charges, or from any other year 1801. 3. The suzeraineté and soveincrease of the outgoings of this establish- reignty of the principality of Piombino and ment, shall be divided between the territories its dependencies.—Prince Ludovisi Buoncomwhich composed the late kingdom of Italy; pagni' shall retain, for himself and his legiand this division shall be regulated according timate successors, all the property which his to the joint bases of their population and family possessed in the principality of Piomrevenue.---The Sovereigns of the said countries bino, and in the island of Elba and its depenshall appoint commissioners, within the space dencies, previously to the occupation of those of three months, dating from the termination countries by the French troops in 1799, togeof the Congress, to arrange with Austrian ther with the mines, founderies, and salt commissioners whatever relates to this object. mines. The Prince Ludovisi shall likewise This Commission shall assemble at Milan. preserve his right of fishery, and enjoy an

ART. XCVIII. His royal highness the entire exemption from duties, as well for the Archduke Francis d'Este, his heirs and suc- exportation of the produce of his mines, founcessors, shall possess, in full sovereignty, the deries, salt-mines, and domains, as for the duchies of Modena, Reggio, and Mirandola, importation of wood and other articles necessuch as they existed at the signature of the sary for working the mines: he shall be also Treaty of Campo Formio. The Archduchess indemnified by his Imperial Highness the Maria Beatrice d'Este, her heirs and suc- Grand duke of Tuscany, for all the revenues cessors,

shall possess in full sovereignty and the family of the latter derived from the property, the duchy of Massa, and the prin- crown duties, before the year 1801.

In case cipality of Carrara, as well as the Imperial any difficulties should arise in the valuation Fiefs in La Lunigiana. The latter may be of this indemnity, the parties concerned shall applied to the purpose of exchanges, or other refer the decision to the courts of Vienna and arrangements made by common consent, and Sardinia. 4. The late Imperial fiefs of Vernio, according to mutual convenience, with his Montanto, and Monte Santa Maria, lying imperial highness the Grand Duke of Tus within the Tuscan states. cany. The rights of succession and reversion, ART. CI. The principality of Lucca shall established in the branches of the Archducal be possessed in full sovereignty by her MaHouses of Austria, relative to the duchies of jesty the Infant Maria Louisa, and her de principalities of Massa and Carrara, are pre- cipality is erected into a duchy, and shall have served.

a form of government founded upon the prinART. XCIX. Her Majesty the Empress ciples of that which it received in 1805. An Maria Louisa shall possess, in full property annuity of 500,000 francs shall be added to and sovereignty, the duchies of Parma, Pla- the revenue of the principality of Lucca, centia, and Guastalla, with the exception of which his Majesty the Emperor of Austria, the districts lying within the states of his and his Imperial Ilighness the Grand Duke Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty on of Tuscany, engage to pay regularly, as long the left bank of the Po.-The reversion of as circumstances do not admit of procuring these countries, shall be regulated by com- another establishment for her Majesty the mon consent, with the Courts of Austria, Infant Maria Louisa, her son, and his deRussia, France, Spain, England and Prussia; scendants. This annuity shall be specially due regard being had to the rights of reversion mortgaged upon the lordships in Bohemia, of the House of Austria, and of his Majesty known by the name of Bavaro Palatine; the King of Sardinia to the said countries. which, in case of the duchy of Lucca reverting

ART. C. His Imperial Highness the arch- to the Grand Duke of Tuscany, shall be freed duke Ferdinand of Austria, is re-established, from this charge, and shall again form a part himself, his heirs and successors, in all the of the private domain of his Imperial and rights of sovereignty and property, in the Royal Apostolic Majesty.

ART. CII. The duchy of Lucca shall re- of the kingdoms of Portugal and the Brazils, vert to the Grand Duke of Tuscany; either of the Treaty signed on the 30th of May in case of its becoming vacant by the death 1814, between Portugal and France; it is of her Majesty the Infant Maria Louisa, or of determined, that the stipulations contained her son Don Carlos, and of their direct male in the 10th Article of that Treaty, and all descendants; or in case the Infant Maria those which relate to it, shall be of no effect, Louisa or her direct heirs should obtain any and that with the consent of all the Powers, other establishment, or succeed to another the provisions contained in the following branch of their dynasty. The Grand Duke Article shall be substituted for them, ana of Tuscany however, engages, should the said which shall alone be considered as valid : reversion fall to him, to cede to the Duke of with this exception, all the other clauses of Modena, as soon as he shall have entered the above Treaty of Paris shall be maintained, into possession of the principality of Lucca, and regarded as mutually binding on the two the following territories: 1. The Tuscan dis- courts. tricts of Tivizano, Pietra Santa, and Barga. ART. CVII. His Royal Highness the 2. The Lucca districts of Castiglione, and Prince Regent of the kingdoms of Portugal Gallicano, lying within the states of Modena, and the Brazils, wishing to give an unequias well as those of Minucciano and Monte- vocal proof of his high consideration for his Ignose, contiguous to the country of Massa. Most Christian Majesty, engages to restore

ART. CIII. The Marches, with Came- French Guiana to his said Majesty, as far as rino, and their dependencies, as well as the the river Oyapock, the mouth of which is duchy of Benevento and the principality of situated between the fourth and fifth degree Ponte-Corvo, are restored to the Holy See. of north latitude, and which has always been The Holy See shall resume possession of the considered by Portugal as the limit appointed legations of Ravenna, Bologna, and Ferrara, by the Treaty of Utrecht. The period for with the exception of that part of Ferrara giving up this colony shall be determined, as which is situated on the left bank of the Po. soon as circumstances shall permit, by a parHis Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty ticular Convention between the two Courts; and his successors shall have the right of and they shall enter into an amicable arplacing garrisons at Ferrara and Commachio. rangement, as soon as possible, with regard The inhabitants of the countries who return to the definitive demarcation of the limits of under the government of the Holy See, in Portuguese and French Guiana, conformably consequence of the stipulations of Congress, to the precise meaning of the 8th Article of shall enjoy the benefit of the 16th Article of the Treaty of Utrecht. the Treaty of Paris of the 30th May 1814. ART. CVIII. The Powers whose states All acquisitions made by individuals, in virtue are separated or crossed by the same naviof a tiile acknowledged as legal by the exist- gable river, engage to regulate, by common ing laws, are to be considered as good, and consent, all that regards ils navigation. For the arrangements necessary for the guarantee this purpose they will name Commissioners, of the public debt, and the payment of pen- who shall assemble, at latest, within six sions, shall be settled by a particular Conven- months after the termination of the Congress, tion between the courts of Rome and Vienna. and who shall adopt as the basis of their pro

ART. CIV. His Majesty King Ferdinand ceedings, the principles established by the 4, his heirs and successors, is restored to the following Articles. throne of Naples, and his Majesty is acknow- ART. CIX. The navigation of the rivers, ledged by the Powers as King of the Two along their whole course, refered to in the Sicilies.

preceding Article, from the point where each ART, CV. The Powers, recognizing the of them becomes navigable, to its mouth, justice of the claims of his Royal Highness shall be entirely free, and shall not, in respect the Prince Regent of Portugal and the Brazils, to commerce, be prohibited to any one; it upon the town of Olivença, and the other ter being understood that the regulations estabritories ceded to Spain by the Treaty of Bada- lished with regard to the police of this navigajos of 1801, and viewing the restitution of the tion, shall be respected; as they will be framed same as a measure necessary to insure that alike for all, and as favourable as possible to perfect and constant harmony between the the commerce of all nations. two kingdoms of the Peninsula, the preserva- ART. CX. The system that shall be estion of which in all parts of Europe, has been tablished both for the collection of the duties the constant object of their arrangements, and for the maintenance of the police, shall formally engage to use their utmost endea- be, as nearly as possible, the same along the vours, by amicable means, to procure the whole course of the river; and shall also retrocession of the said territories, in favour extend, unless particular circumstances preof Portugal. . And the Powers declare, as far .vent it, to those of its branches and junctions, as depends upon them, that this arrangement which, in their navigable course, separate or shall take place as soon as possible.

traverse different states. ART. CVI. In order to remove the diffi- ART. CXI. The duties on navigation shall culties which opposed the ratification on the be regulated in an uniform and settled joanpart of his Royal Highness the Prince Regentner, and with as little reference as possible to in order that a. minute examination of the cargo | its execution with due regard to circumstances may be rendered unnecessary, except with a and locality. view to prevent fraud and evasion. Thé ART. CXVII. The particular regulations amount of the duties, which shall in no case relative to the navigation of the Rhine, the exceed those now paid, shall be determined Necker, the Maine, the Moselle, the Meuse, by local circumstances, which scarcely allow and the Scheldt, such as they are annexed to of a general rule in this respect. The tarif the present Act, shall have the same force shall, however, be prepared in such a manner and validity as if they were textually inserted as to encourage commerce by facilitating herein. navigation ; for which purpose the duties ART. CXVIII. The Treaties, Conventions, established upon the Rhine, and now in force Declarations, Regulations, and other particuon that river, may serve as an approximating lar Acts which are annexed to the present rule for its construction. The tarif once set- Act, viz. tled, no increase shall take place therein, ex- 1. The Treaty between Russia and Austria cept by the common consent of the states of the 21st April (3d May) 1815. bordering on the rivers; nor shall the navi- 2. The Treaty between Russia and Prussia gation be burthened with any other duties of the 21st April (3d May) 1815. than those fixed in the regulation.

3. The additional Treaty relative to CraART. CXII. The offices for the collection cow, between Austria, Prussia, and Russia, of of duties, the number of which shall be re- the 21st April (3d May) 1815. duced as much as possible, shall be deter- 4. The Treaty between Prussia and Saxony mined upon in the above regulation, and no of the 18th May 1815. change shall 'afterwards be made, but by 5. The Declaration of the King of Saxony common consent, unless any of the states respecting the rights of the House of Schenbordering on the rivers should wish to dimi- burg, of the 18th May 1815. nish the number of those which exclusively 6. The Treaty between Prussia and Hanbelong to the same.

over of the 29th May 1815. ART. CXIII. Each state bordering on the 7. The Convention between Prussia and rivers is to be at the expense of keeping in the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar of the 1st good repair the towing paths, which pass June 1815. through its territory, and of maintaining the 8. The Convention between Prussia and necessary works through the same extent in the Duke and Prince of Nassau of the 31st the channels of the river, in order that no May 1815. obstacle may be experienced to the naviga- 9. The Act concerning the Federative Contion. The intended regulation shall,deter-stitution of Germany of the 8th June 1815. mine the manner in which the states border- 10. The Treaty between the King of the ing on the rivers are to participate in these Netherlands, and Prussia, England, Austria, latter works, where the opposite banks belong and Russia, of the 31st May 1815. to different governments.

11. The Declaration of the Powers on the ART. CXIV. There shall no where be Affairs of the Helvetic Confederation of the established store house, port, or forced har- 20th March, and the Act of Accession of the bour-duties. Those already existing shall be Diet of the 28th May 1815. preserved for such time only as the states 12. The Protocol of the 29th March 1815, bordering on rivers (without regard to the on the cessions made by the King of Sardinia local interest of the place or the country to the Canton of Geneva. where they are established) shall find them 13. The Treaty between the king of Sardinecessary or useful to navigation and com- nia, Austria, England, Russia, Prussia, and merce in general.

France, of the 21st May 1815. ART. ČXV. The custom-houses belonging 14. The Act intituled “ Conditions which to the states bordering on rivers shall not in- are to serve as the bases of the Union of the terfere in the duties of navigation. Regu- States of Genoa with those of his Sardinian lations shall be established to prevent officers Majesty." of the customs, in the exercise of their func- 15. The Declaration of the Powers on the tions, throwing obstacles in the way of the abolition of the Slave Trade, of the 8th Fenavigation; but care shall be taken, by bruary 1815. means of a strict police on the bank, to pre- 16. The Regulations respecting the free clude every attempt of the inhabitants to navigation of Rivers. smuggle goods, through the medium of boat- 17. The Regulation concerning the precemen.

dence of Diplomatic agents,--Shall be conART. CXVI. Every thing expressed in the sidered as integral parts of the arrangements preceding Articles shall be settled by a gene- of the Congress, and shall have, throughout, ral arrangement, in which there shall also be the same force and validity as if they were comprised whatever may need an ulterior inserted, word for word, in the General determination. The arrangement once set- Treaty. ted, shall not be changed, but by and with ART. CXIX. All the Powers assembled in the consent of all the states bordering on Congress, as well as the Princes and free