[Navigation of the River Po.] Division of Excess of Navigation Dues. Payment of Deficiency. ART. XVIII. If it should happen that the produce should not be exhausted by the expenses of superintendence, and of the maintenance and improvement of the course of the River for Navigation, the remainder shall be divided in proportion to the respective territorial extent along the shores, the accounts being regulated at the close of each year. The same shall be done in the event of any deficiency for the expenses which the Governments shall have sanctioned. Prohibition to Exempt or Augment Dues. ART. XIX. Neither the Commission nor any Custom-house Officer shall be allowed to give exemption from the Dues fixed, nor to augment them, whatever may be the nature, the origin, and the destination of the goods and merchandize, and without any respect to the party from whom they come, and to whom they are going, and by whose order the transport is effected. Settlement of Disputes. Police Regulations. ART. XX. All affairs in dispute relative to Navigation shall be decided by the Superintending Customs Officers, and in last appeal by the Commission. Affairs of Police, whether Correctional or Criminal, shall be under cognizance of the respective Judiciary Authorities of the district or commune where they occur, and they shall be proceeded with regularly according to existing laws. Prevention of Smuggling. ART. XXI. The care of preventing Smuggling on the banks of the Po, and in the interior of the adjoining countries, is entrusted to the several Governments, who shall, for that purpose, issue to their Customs Officers and Guards instructions in conformity with the spirit of the present Convention. Sanitary Regulations. ART. XXII. Every Ship or Vessel coming from the Sea which shall enter the Po, shall be subject to the Sanitary Regulations prescribed in the Austrian or Pontifical ports, at the mouth of the River, and shall not continue the voyage until the same be fulfilled, receiving a certificate of free pratique, which must be exhibited whenever required by competent authority. [Navigation of the River Po.] Service and Payment of Pilots. ART. XXIII. Matters relating to the Service and Payment allowed to Pilots shall be arranged by a Special Regulation, the preparation and publication of which shall be entrusted to the above-mentioned Commission. Moneys, Weights, and Measures. ART. XXIV. With respect to Moneys, Weights, and Measures, the Italian Decimal Metrical System shall be the rule observed. ADDITIONAL ARTICLE. Negotiations to be entered into with Piedmont. In order to extend still more the advantages to be derived to the Navigation of the Po from the present Convention, the Austrian Government undertakes to enter into suitable negotiations with Piedmont, on the basis of the principles laid down above. Tariff of the Dues for Navigation on the Po. Throughout its course between the two extreme Customhouses, and beyond the same: 1st class ships, boats, and barges, of the 3rd ditto ditto 200 to 500 4th ditto ditto under 200 ..... Lira. 12 0 6 0 Between the two extreme Custom-houses one-half the Duty shall be paid. Ships, Barges, and Boats not loaded shall pay in every case one-half. In testimony whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the present original in triplicate, and have affixed the Seal of their Arms thereto. Milan, 3rd July, 1849. (L.S.) DE BRUCK. [Islands of the River Po.] No. 213.-CONVENTION between Austria and Parma, respecting the Sovereignty over the Islands of the Po. Signed at Milan, 3rd July, 1849. TABLE. Reference to Vienna Congress Treaty of 9th June, 1815; and to Conventions of 25th July, 1821, and 11th July, 1834. Additional Article. Sovereignty over Islands on the Po becoming attached to each other. (Translation.) Reference to Vienna Congress Treaty of 9th June, 1815; and to Conventions of 25th July, 1821, and 11th July, 1834. His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, Bohemia, &c., &c., and His Royal Highness the Infant of Spain, Duke of Parma, &c., inasmuch as by the Conventions of 25th July, 1821, and 11th July, 1834, the rules are established between Austria and the Duchy of Parma, which are to be observed for the transfer of the Islands of the Po from one to the other dominion, in consequence of fluvial variations by which an Island belonging to one State becomes attached to the Continent of the other State, as well as to who the new Islands shall belong, and this in modification of what was determined on the subject by Article XCV of the General Act of the Congress of Vienna (No. 27), but the case of the Union of two Islands belonging to different States, having been left out of consideration, and in order to supply that omission, have agreed as follows, and therefore appointed their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say : His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, Charles Lodowick di Bruck, his Minister of Commerce, &c., and His Royal Highness the Infant Duke of Parma, Thomas Baron Ward, his Chamberlain, &c., who, having met at Milan, and having produced and exchanged their Full Powers, found in good and due form, have agreed and stipulated as follows: [Islands of the River Po.] ADDITIONAL ARTICLE. Sovereignty over Islands on the Po becoming attached to each other. Two Islands shall be considered as firmly conjoined to each other when the earthing up of the Channel between reaches the level of the mean flood, so that in every greater elevation of the Po, the waters can there take a continuous course. In such case the high dominion of both the Islands shall pass to that one of the contiguous States to which the largest Island belongs. The relative extent of the Islands shall be determined by the part which emerges from the ordinary waters of the Po, the level of which it is understood corresponds with the state of greater fulness or permanence of the River. In faith whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the present in duplicate original, and thereto have affixed the Seal of their Arms. Milan, 3rd July, 1849. DI BRUCK. [Holstein, Schleswig, and Lauenburg.] No. 214. PRELIMINARIES OF PEACE between Denmark and Prussia (concluded under British Mediation). Signed at Berlin, 10th July, 1849. 1. Separate Constitution for the Duchy of Schleswig. 2. Negotiations to be entered into for Organisation of Duchy of Schleswig. 3. Holstein and Lauenburg to form part of Germanic Confederation. Nonpolitical Connection between Holstein and Schleswig. 3. Constitution for Duchy of Holstein. 4. Stipulations not to invalidate Succession Rights of Denmark. Negotiations to regulate Order of Succession in Denmark. 5. Guarantee of Duchy of Schleswig by Great Powers. Communication of Protocol to Great Britain. (Translation as laid before Parliament.†) THE Undersigned Plenipotentiaries, named respectively by His Majesty the King of Denmark and His Majesty the King of Prussia, for the purpose of settling the bases of a Definitive Peace, having for its object the removal of the Differences which have arisen between them as regards the relations of the Duchy of Schleswig, have, with the concurrence of the Earl of Westmorland, Minister of Her Britannic Majesty at Berlin, as representative of the Mediating Power, agreed upon the following preliminary Articles of Peace: Separate Constitution for the Duchy of Schleswig. ART. I. The Duchy of Schleswig shall have a Separate Constitution as regards its Legislature and Interior Administration, without being united to the Duchy of Holstein, and leaving intact the Political Union which attaches the Duchy of Schleswig to the Danish Crown. Negotiations to be entered into for Organisation of Duchy of Schleswig. ART. II. The Definitive Organisation of the Duchy of Schleswig which results from this basis, shall form the subject of ulte *See Treaty of Peace of 2nd July, 1850, and note, page 1108. |