[Geneva, Savoy, Chablais, and Faucigny.] Maintenance of Charitable Establishments and Public Instruction in ceded States. ART. XIII. The Government of Geneva, wishing to show the sentiments by which it is animated towards the inhabitants of the ceded Communes, and its desire to make a suitable provision for Charitable Establishments and those for Public Instruction, agrees that the part yet unpaid of the price of the property belonging to the said Communes, which was sold under the French Administration, and the funds and securities obtained under that head by the said Communes, shall be received by them and employed for their advantage; that the existing Establishments of Charity and Public-Instruction shall preserve the funds and advantages which they then possessed; and finally, it will provide that those establishments shall not be injured in any respect by the present cession of territory. Landed Proprietors on Frontiers. ART. XIV. The Landed Proprictors whose estates may be intersected by the present Delimitation, in such manner as to leave their habitations or out-houses in one State and their grounds in the other, shall enjoy the liberty of cultivating their grounds the same as if the whole estate were united in one Territory. They shall not be subject, in consequence of such estates, to greater charges than if they belonged to the State in which the same are situated; and the principle of the two Governments shall be specially to protect the said Proprietors, and perfectly to accord in measures of safety and police. Land Tax on Estates. ART. XV. The Land Tax on the Estates called those of the Old Survey shall not exceed the rate it bore on the 29th of March, 1815, whilst they shall remain in the hands of the Genevese, and the landed property actually belonging to the Genevese on the mountain's side, north of Salève, between Veirier and the western boundary of the Commune of Colonge, with Archamps and the pastures dependent thereon, may at all times be sold to Genevese subjects. Water Rights of Genevese Proprietors. The Genevese Proprietors of the low grounds of Salève, whether bordering upon Savoy or Geneva, who enjoy the benefits [Geneva, Savoy, Chablais, and Faucigny.] derived from the waters which fall from the adjacent mountain, and who, according to the dispositions of the general constitutions, require a grant from His Majesty to preserve to them the enjoyment of those benefits, shall be treated with regard thereto, as if they were His Majesty's subjects, excepting only the Droits des Tiers. Abolition of Succession Duties. ART. XVI. All Droits d'Aubaine, de Détraction, and others of the same nature relative to Inheritances, which may be in force in the States of His Majesty with regard to the Swiss Cantons, and vice versa, shall be abolished from the date of the exchange of the Ratifications of the present Treaty. Swiss Proprietors on Frontiers of Piedmont. ART. XVII. The Swiss Proprietors of landed property situated within less than two miles of the frontiers of Piedmont, fixed by the present Treaty, and the titles of which are anterior to the 3rd of November, 1815, shall not be disturbed on account of the dispositions with regard thereto, contained in the General Regulations of His Majesty; they being required, however, to conform to the said Regulations whenever the afore-mentioned property shall be transferred otherwise than by succession. Payment of Contributions. ART. XVIII. The Contributions from the territories respectively ceded, shall appertain to the State who is to possess them, from the 1st of April next; the account thereof to be made up and the amount paid within a month after the transfer of the territory, deducting the expenses of their administration up to the time of the said transfer. Public Debts of ceded Territory. ART. XIX. The Public Debts of the territory ccded to Geneva by the present Treaty, for which, according to Articles XXI., XXVI., and XXX. of the Treaty of Paris of the 30th May, 1814 (No. 1), and of the 20th November, 1815 (No. 40), His Majesty's Government is responsible, shall be transferred to the Genevese Government from the 1st of April next. [Geneva, Savoy, Chablais, and Faucigny.] Liquidation of Debts of Department of the Leman. ART. XX. His Majesty shall appoint two Commissioners who shall regulate and complete, with the least possible delay, in conjunction with two other Commissioners to be appointed by the Canton of Geneva, the liquidation of Debts owing to or by the ancient department of the Leman, as well as those connected with the relations which have existed between the two States. Good Offices of French Government. The French Government shall be invited to interpose in this liquidation for the general interests of the said department. Restoration of Title Deeds, &c. The Titles, Registers, and other Documents of the former Executive and Judicial Authorities, and of the different Administrations of the said department, deposited at Geneva, which concern the inhabitants and Communes of His Majesty's territory, shall be restored to the two Royal Commissioners; and His Majesty agrees that all the Documents which relate to the whole department, or the ancient Arrondissement of the Sub-Prefecture of Geneva, shall, after an inventory has been made of the same, remain during five years, to commence from this day, in the said City, in the custody of two responsible Depositaries, one of them to be appointed by His Majesty, and the other by the Genevese Government; at the expiration of which term the two Governments shall concert together respecting the expediency of continuing, modifying, or suppressing, that establishment. His Majesty's subjects shall have free access to these Deposits, and copies of Documents when demanded, or when it may be necessary to produce them before the Tribunals and other Royal Authorities, shall be delivered and regularly certified by the King's Depositary, alone, who shall receive the incidental fees on His Majesty's account. Payment to be made by Canton of Geneva towards new Custom Houses ART. XXI. The establishment of Custom-Houses on the new line occasioning considerable expense to His Majesty, and the Delimitation fixed by Article I. requiring fresh constructions or improvements, on several points of the road of communication between Lower Savoy and the Chablais, the Canton of Geneva [Geneva, Savoy, Chablais, and Faucigny.] shall place the sum of 100,000 Piedmontese livres at His Majesty's disposal, which sum shall be payable at Saint Julien within six months after the signature of the present Treaty. Appointment of Boundary Commissioners. ART. XXII. Two Commissioners shall be immediately ap-. pointed, one by His Sardinian Majesty, and the other by the Swiss Confederation and the Canton of Geneva, to proceed to the afore-mentioned Delimitation, in such manner as to complete it before the exchange of the Ratifications. The Commissioners shall draw up a Procès-Verbal of their proceedings, joining thereto a topographical Plan of the whole of the Limits, wherein the several Communes shall be described, which Plan shall be signed by them. The said document shall be signed in triplicate, and shall be annexed to the present Treaty. Former Treaties renewed. ART. XXIII. The dispositions of former Treaties, and especially of that of the 3rd of June, 1754,* which are not expressly affected by the present Treaty, are hereby confirmed. Ratifications. ART. XXIV. The present Treaty shall be ratified by His Majesty, the Swiss Confederation, and the Canton of Geneva, and the Ratifications shall be exchanged within the space of three months, or sooner if possible. Immediately after the exchange of the Ratifications, the transfer of the territories shall reciprocally take place. In testimony whereof the Plenipotentiaries have hereunto affixed their Signatures and the Seals of their Arms. Done at Turin, the 16th day of March, in the year of our Lord, 1816. (L. S.) MONTIGLIO. (L. S.) PROVANA DI COLLEGNO. * See Appendix. [Territorial.] No. 53.-TREATY of Limits between Austria and Bavaria. Signed at Munich, 14th April, 1816. [This Treaty formed Annex No. XI. to the General Treaty of Frankfort of 20th July, 1819.] 1. Retrocessions by Bavaria to Austria. 2. Cessions by Austria to Bavaria on the Left and Right Banks of the Rhine, in exchange for Bavarian Retrocessions. Fortress of Landau. 3. Engagement of Austria to obtain for Bavaria cessions from HesseDarmstadt and Baden. 4. Indemnification by Austria to Bavaria for relinquishment of principle of contiguity. 5. Military Road between the Possessions of B ric on the Mayne and the Left Bank of the Rhine. 6. Portion of French contribution to be given to Bavaria. 7. Supply of Salt to Bavaria, free from all export and transit Duties. 8. Free passage and transit of Salt through Bavarian States from the Tyrol to Bregenz. 9. Navigation of is. The Salza and the Saale. 10. Payment of Debts secured by Mortgages upon countries respectively ceded. Payment of Pensions, &c. 11. Sale or alienation of Domains. 12. Delivery of all Archives, Maps, Plans, and Documents. 13. Maintenance of Conventions abolishing the Succession Duties (Droit d'Aubaine). 14. Military to be placed at disposal of respective Sovereigns. Officers and Soldiers may remain in service of either State. 15. Free enjoyment by Individuals and Religious foundations of their real and personal Property. Liberty to Emigrate. 16. Possession of all ceded Places, Fortresses, Cities, and Territories. 17. Withdrawal by Bavaria of Artillery and Military Stores at Salzburg. 18. Sale by Bavaria of their Magazines of Salt, Mineral Productions, &c., or their free ex rt. 19. Commission to settle Boundary separating the country of Salzburg from that of Berchtoldsgaben, and from the Bailiwick of Reichenhull. 20. Special Commission of Claims. 21. Commission to regulate all ancient Grants and clearing of the Forests of the Valley of the Saale. 22. Right of Bavaria to transport and float all wood cut in Valley of the Upper Saale. 23. Renunciations by Austria and Bavaria, respectively, of all Rights and Claims over ceded States, &c. 24. Portions of Territory exchanged and guaranteed to pass to new Possessors. |