[Servia.]

harmony with the Servian administration, and you will yourself pay, and cause all your subordinates to pay, to the Prince and to his functionaries all the respect which is due to them. In the same manner the Servians will of course not interfere in any manner with what concerns the Fortress, and they will show, and will cause to be shown to you, the respect due to a high functionary of the Sublime Porte, as well as to the officers of the garrison.

3. You will not permit any of the Mussulman inhabitants of Belgrade to live outside the Citadel.

4. You will not give any air of menace, which might without necessity disquiet or alarm the Servian population, to the disposition of your artillery on the ramparts directed towards the town.

5. You will not use artillery except in case of a serious attack made against the Fortress which you are charged to defend.

In case of necessary defence, and in that case only, will you make use of your artillery, taking care to direct the fire only on those parts of the town from whence the attack proceeds, and you will always be animated by the generous intentions of His Imperial Majesty to spare as far as possible a town, to the preservation and prosperity of which he attaches the greatest importance.

6. You must understand that the only object of the preceding Article is to regulate the line of conduct which you should pursue in eventualities which you must do all in your power to avoid. If, after having exhausted all means of conciliation, you find yourself under the unhappy necessity of making use of your cannon to repel an attack on the Fortress, you will endeavour to inform beforehand the Foreign Consuls resident in Belgrade, and if possible the peaceable inhabitants of the town.

[Vallee des Dappes.]

No. 339.-TREATY between France and Switzerland,

ᎪᎡᎢ.

relative to an Exchange of Territory in the Vallée des Dappes. Signed at Berne, 8th December, 1862.

TABLE.

Preamble. Reference to Vienna Congress Treaty of 1815.

1. Cession to France. Cession to Switzerland.

2. Military Works not to be erected.

3. Choice of Nationality.

4. Carriage Road between the French and Swiss Territory.

5. New Road to be free from Transit Dues, &c. Postal Regulations.

6. Rights of Proprietors of Woods.

7. Treaty not to interfere with acquired Rights.

8. Appointment of Boundary Commissioners.

9. Ratifications.

(Translation.*)

Preamble. Reference to Arrangements of 1815.

His Majesty the Emperor of the French and the Federal Council of Switzerland, animated by the desire to put an end to the discussions, existing since 1815 (No. 27, Art. LXXV),. between France and Switzerland, on the subject of the possession of the Vallée des Dappes, have appointed as their Plenipotentiaries, namely:

His Majesty the Emperor of the French, M. le Marquis Turgot, his Ambassador to the Swiss Confederation, &c.;

And the Federal Council of Switzerland, M. Jacques Staempfli, President of the Confederation;

Who have agreed upon the following Articles:

Cession to France.

ART. I. The Swiss Confederation abandons, and France resumes possession and full Sovereignty of that part of the Vallée des Dappes, including:

1. The Mont des Tuffes and its declivities, as far as and including the Rousses Road to Faucille;

2. A strip of land, to the East of that road, of about 150 metres wide, say 500 Swiss feet, following the direction as shown on the Plan annexed to the present Treaty.

Cession to Switzerland.

France cedes to the Swiss Confederation, to form part of the *For French version see "State Papers," vol. liii, p. 151.

[Vallee des Dappes.]

Canton de Vaud, a Territory of equal extent, stretching from the point of junction of the roads of Saint-Cergues and Faucille along the slope of the Mirmont, as far as the Limit of the Vallée de Joux, following the direction pointed out in the annexed Plan. The Road of Saint-Cergues, from the place called the Cure, forms part of this Cession.

Military Works not to be erected.

ART. II. No Military Works shall be erected on the portions of Territory mentioned in the preceding Article.

Choice of Nationality.

ART. III. The Inhabitants natives of the part of the Vallée des Dappes reverting to France, by virtue of the present Treaty, shall become French Subjects, unless they shall, within the space of one year, declare their intention to preserve their Swiss Nationality, in which case they shall be allowed to retain their domicile and their establishments on the Territory of the Empire.

The Inhabitants natives of the part ceded by France to the Swiss Confederation shall become Swiss, unless they shall declare, within the same delay, their wish to remain French Subjects, in which case they shall be allowed to retain their domicile and their establishments on the Swiss Territory.

Carriage Road between the French and Swiss Territory.

ART. IV. The Road actually existing and named after the Sandy Ground (Landes), shall be improved so as to form a Carriage Road and to establish a direct communication between the Saint-Cergues Road, at its junction with the Faucille Road, near the Cure, and the Road of the Bois d'Amont, near Bertets.

These works shall be completed within two years from the exchange of the Ratifications, and each of the Contracting Parties shall defray the expenses of the part of the new Road situate within its own Territory.

New Road to be free from Transit Dues, &c.

ART. V. The communication of the Vaudois district of the Vallée de Joux with Saint-Cergues, by the Bois d'Amont Road, shall be free from all Transit, Toll, or Customs Dues.

DOUBS

Chemin

dit des Landes

Landes

Les Bossaton.
LoPlanemon

• Sonnaike

PLAN

OF THE

VALLÉE DES DAPPES,

1862