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will be detached from the French territory in the department of the Sarre and the Moselle, including the Fortress of Sarre-Louis, shall be united to the dominions of the King of Prussia.*

Acquisitions of Austria. Town and Fortress of Landau.† ART. III. 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 Vienna (No. 27). 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 Confederation.*

Helvetic Confederation. Versoy and part of the Pays de Gex to be added to Geneva.

ART. IV. Versoy, 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.

Neutrality of Switzerland to include Territory from Upper Savoy: Ugina to Lake of Bourget.

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 south of the Lake of Annecy, and from thence to the Lake of Bourget, as far as the Rhone (No. 43), in the same manner as it has been extended to the Provinces of Chablais and Faucigny by Article XCII of the Final Act of the Congress of Vienna (No. 27).

Sardinia. Part of Savoy to be given to Sardinia and part to Geneva.

ART. V. 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 May, 1814 (No. 1), shall be united (réunis) 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.

Proposed Cessions to Geneva.

The Cabinets of the Allied Courts will use their good offices for

*See Treaty between Great Britain, Austria, &c., of 20th July, 1819. + Sec Article VII, § d, and note, p. 5.

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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 Jussy from the effects of the retrocession, by the Canton of Geneva, of that territory situated between the road of Euron and the Lake, which had been ceded by His Sardinian Majesty, by the Act of the 29th March, 1815 (No. 10).

Custom Houses.

The French Government having consented to withdraw its lines of custom and excise from the frontiers of Switzerland, on the side of the Jura, the Cabinets of the Allied Powers will employ their good offices for inducing His Sardinian Majesty to withdraw in like manner, his lines of custom and excise, on the side of Savoy, at least upwards of a league from the Swiss frontiers, and on the outside of the great road of Saleve, and of the mountains of Sion and Waache.

Pecuniary Indemnity to Sardinia.

His Majesty the King of Sardinia shall receive, moreover, out of that part of the French contribution which is destined for the strengthening of the line of Defence of the States bordering upon France, the sum of 10,000,000 of Francs, which is to be laid out in fortifying his frontiers, in conformity with the plans and regulations which the Powers shall settle in this respect.

Pecuniary Indemnities to Austria and Prussia.

It is likewise agreed, that, in consideration of the advantages which His Sardinian Majesty will derive from these dispositions, both in the extension and in the means for defending his territory, that part of the pecuniary Indemnity 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.

B. Provisions respecting the Territorial Arrangements in Germany, Austria, and Prussia.

Cessions by Austria to Prussia in Department of La Sarre. ART. VI. His Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty shall cede to His Majesty the King of Prussia, in the department of La Sarre, the districts shown in the annexed Schedule. His Majesty the King of Prussia engages on his part to satisfy the Grand Dukes of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and Oldenburg, the Duke of Coburg, the Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, and the Count of Papenheim,

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conformably with Article LIV* of the Final Act of the Congress of Vienna (No. 27).

Arrangements relating to Bavaria.

ART. VII. His Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, His Majesty the King of Great Britain, and His Majesty the King of Prussia engage to use every means to obtain for His Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty from His Majesty the King of Bavaria the reconveyance of the territories and the objects designated in the annexed Schedule (2), in exchange for the indemnity designated in the same Schedule. They undertake at the same time with the Court of Bavaria to exchange with His Royal Highness the Elector of Hesse, the districts of Aufenau, Wört, and Hochst, and the road from Saalmünster to Gelnhausen for a sufficient part of the bailiwick of Lohrhaupten.

In consideration of the arrangements above specified the Four Powers insure to His Majesty the King of Bavaria the following advantages :

a. An amount proportional to the part of the French contributions intended to reinforce the defensive line of the frontier States, which amount shall be employed according to the plans and regulations which shall be generally fixed in this matter.

b. The Reversion of the part of the Palatinate belonging to the House of Baden, after the extinction of the direct line of the reigning Grand Duke.

c. A military road from Wurzburg to Frankenthal.

Landau to be a Fortress of the Germanic Confederation. Bavaria to have Right to Garrison.

d. The right of garrison in the fortified Town of Landau, which will be one of the Fortresses of the Germanic Confederation. These Articles will be regarded as fully obligatory as soon as the Court of Bavaria shall have declared its adhesion to the arrangements specified above.†

The Countries devolved to His Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty under Article LI of the Final Act of the Congress of Vienna (No. 27), and of which His Majesty can dispose by exchange with the other Princes of the Germanic Confederation, being still found, in spite of the representations on this subject made by

*See Convention of 1st July, 1816.

† See Treaty between Great Britain, Austria, &c., of 20th July, 1819.

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the Imperial Court of Austria, partly occupied by the Bavarian authorities, there will be made by the Four Cabinets a simultaneous action against the Bavarian Government, in order that the said countries may be placed without delay at the free disposal of His Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty.

Austrian Cessions to Grand Duke of Ilesse.

ART. VIII. Austria shall cede to the Grand Duke of Hesse, as an indemnity for the Duchy of Westphalia, a territory on the left bank of the Rhine, comprising a population of 140,000 inhabitants, conformably to the Treaty between Austria, Prussia, and the Grand Duke, of 10th June, 1815 (No. 28). The arrangements with the Grand Duke of Hesse shall be made according to the annexed Schedule (3), drawn up on the basis of the exchange of territory between Austria and Bavaria, such as may be found indicated in the preceding Article.

Austrian Cession to Bavaria.

ART. IX. The Reversion of the part of the Palatinate belonging to the Grand Duke of Baden having been assured to Austria by the Protocol of 10th June, 1815,* of the Conferences of the Congress of Vienna, His Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty is ready to renounce this Reversion in favour of His Majesty the King of Bavaria, in order to facilitate the arrangements indicated by Article VII of the present Protocol. The Reversion of Brisgau, which has also been assured to Austria by the said Protocol of 10th June, will be carried out.

C. Defensive System of the Germanic Confederation.

Mayence, Luxemburg, and Landau to be Fortresses of the Germanic

Confederation.

ART. X. The Fortresses of Mayence, Luxemburg, and Landauf are declared Fortresses of the Germanic Confederation, with the exception of the territorial Sovereignty of the Fortresses.

Fortress of Mayence. Right of Garrisoning Fortress.

The Plenipotentiaries of Austria and Prussia, not being authorised, considering the Acts formerly existing, and the absence of their Sovereigns, to renounce the right of garrisoning the Fortress

By the Project of Convention annexed to the Protocol of 10th June, 1815, the Reversion of Brisgau, and of the Palatinate, were secured eventually to the House of Austria (excepting those parts which were ceded to Prussia). + See Treaty between Austria and Bavaria of 16th April, 1816.

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of Mayence to one or other of their respective Courts, it is agreed that the military service and the administration shall continue to subsist in that Fortress according to the actual arrangement in force, until the Allied Courts shall come to some definitive arrangement on this point.

Fortress of Luxemburg. Right of Garrisoning, and of Nominating Governor.

Their Majesties, the Emperor of Austria, the Emperor of all the Russias, and His Majesty the King of Great Britain, will employ their best offices in order to obtain for His Majesty the King of Prussia the right of garrisoning the Fortress of Luxemburg, conjointly with His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, as well as the right of nominating the Governor of that Fortress.

Fortress of Landau. Right of Garrisoning.

The garrison of Landau shall be, until the time of its exchange, entirely composed of Austrian troops, and in like manner after the transfer it shall be in time of peace entirely composed of Bavarian troops. Nevertheless, in the case of war, the Grand Duke of Baden shall furnish a third of the garrison necessary for the defence of the Fortress.

Distribution of Sums of Money to be devoted to the Defensive System of Germany.

The Powers having agreed to devote to the defensive system of Germany the sum of 60,000,000 francs, to be taken from a part of the French contribution destined to strengthen the line of Defence of the frontier States, the said sum shall be distributed as follows:

His Majesty the King of Prussia shall receive 20,000,000 Francs of it for the fortification of the Lower Rhine; 20,000,000 shall be reserved for the construction of a fourth Federal Fortress on the Upper Rhine; His Majesty the King of Bavaria, or some other Sovereign of the countries bordering upon France between the Rhine and the Prussian States, shall have 15,000,000; and 5,000,000 shall be employed to complete the works at Mayence. These different sums shall be disposed of, conformably to the plans and regulations which shall be settled with reference to them.

Protocol to have same force as a Convention.

ART. XI. The present Protocol shall have the force of a Con