[Navigation of the Elbe.] berg or Mühlberg, the same shall be communicated to the Toll Commissaries, upon whose demand a separate Security shall likewise be given to the Boatmen, from the Toll-houses of Mühlberg and Wittenberg, for any Duties that may have been unjustly levied at any of the Elbe Toll-houses of their Most High Constituents already passed; which must not, however, exceed a third part of the amount of those Toll Duties which have been levied at the Toll-houses already passed, agreeably to the manifest. Choice and Payment of Commissaries. ART. VI. None but moral, peaceable, and experienced men shall be chosen as Commissaries and they shall be sufficiently paid at the Toll-houses of Mühlberg and Wittenberg to enable them to live respectably and independently of perquisites, which, under whatever denomination, they are not permitted to enjoy. Publication of Appointments and Instructions. Their appointments and instructions shall be published by the Royal Prussian Government, and they, as well as the Toll Officers at Wittenberg and Mühlberg, are most especially directed to observe a conciliatory and peaceable conduct towards each other. Right of Prussian Chief Toll Inspector to inspect Registers of Contracting States. ART. VII. Should the Royal Prussian Chief Toll Inspectors at Wittenberg and Mühlberg have occasion to require an inspection of the registers, or extracts of the same, from the Toll Officers of His Majesty the King of Saxony, Great Britain and Hanover, Denmark, or the Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh, the same shall be readily afforded to them. Revision of Stipulations. ART. VIII. Inasmuch as experience will best prove the advantages of the present Convention, relative to the mutual proceeding of inspection, the High Contracting Parties expressly reserve to themselves the right to prolong the duration of the same, and, if necessary, to amend and simplify the stipulations thereof, at the first Commission of Revision. [Navigation of the Elbe.] Right of returning to Peculiar Mode of Revision. Should this Convention not answer the expectations generally entertained, and should they not agree upon another in the first Commission of Revision, it will remain for the High Contracting Parties to resume the right belonging to them of returning to their own peculiar mode of revision. Cargoes not passing Mühlberg or Wittenberg not included in Convention. ART. IX. This Convention does not include the Cargoes on the Elbe which in their destination do not pass Mühlberg or Wittenberg; and the general revision, conformably with the Convention of Navigation, also remains reserved to the High Contracting Parties. Ratifications. ART. X. The Ratifications of this provisional Convention shall be obtained without delay, and, together with those of the Convention for the Navigation of the Elbe, shall be exchanged without delay. In faith whereof, the same is signed and sealed by the respective Plenipotentiaries of the Elbe Navigation. Done at Dresden, 23rd June, 1821. (L.S.) JOHANN LUDWIG V. JORDAN. (L.S.) CARL FRIEDRICH BARON V. STRALENHEIM. (L.S.) JOACHIM CHRISTIAN STEINFELD. [See also Treaties of 13th April and 22nd July, 1844, for the abolition of the Stade, or Brunshausen, Toll. Various other Treaties have been concluded between Foreign Powers relative to the Navigation of the Elbe, but it has not been thought necessary to insert them in this work.] [Limits. Genoa.] No. 112.-TREATY between Sardinia and Parma, relative to the Boundary of Genoa. Signed at Turin, 26th November, 1822. ᎪᎡᎢ. 1. to 12. TABLE. Preamble. Reference to Treaty of 10th March, 1766. Detailed Demarcation of Frontier separating the Duchy of Genoa from that of Parma and Placentia. 13. Ratifications. (Translation.*) Reference to Treaty of 10th March, 1766. THE salutary effects produced in the preservation of good neighbourhood between the subjects of His Majesty the King of Sardinia and those of Her Majesty the Princess Imperial, Archduchess of Austria, Duchess of Parma, by the Treaty of Limits of 10th March, 1766,† settling definitively the divisional line. between the two States, from the confluence of the Aveto in the Trebbia to the Po, have decided their Majesties to afford a similar advantage to those of their Subjects who inhabit the Frontiers separating the Duchy of Genoa from that of Parma and Placentia, and thereby reciprocally to insure a new guarantee of the continuance of the bonds of friendship which happily unite the two august Sovereigns. In order to attain that object, after having given the requisite orders to collect all the information necessary on the difficulties which have arisen on that Line of Boundary, as well as on the respective Titles on which the pretensions of the two States are founded, their Majesties have appointed on either side Plenipotentiaries, who, in jointly examining those Titles, as well as the reciprocal relations, shall reconcile them with the advantages of a regular Administration, which always more firmly secures the happiness of their subjects, object of their paternal solicitude. These Plenipotentiaries have agreed as follows: ARTS. I to XII. Detailed Demarcation of Frontier separating the Duchy of Genoa from that of Parma and Placentia. *For French version, see "State Papers," vol. xx, p. 1360. [Limits. Genoa.] Ratifications. ART. XIII. The present Treaty shall be ratified by the High Contracting Parties, and the exchange of the Ratifications thereof shall take place in the term of two months, or sooner, if possible. Done at Turin, 26th November, 1822. (L.S.) PROVANA DE COLEGNO. (L.S.) DAISER. [Congress of Verona. Slave Trade.] LUTIONS No. 113.-RESOLUTIONS of the Plenipotentiaries of Great Britain, Austria, France, Prussia, and Russia, respecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade. Verona, 28th November, 1822. (Translation, as laid before Parliament.*) THE Plenipotentiaries of Austria, of France, of Great Britain, of Prussia, and of Russia assembled in Congress at Verona, considering,-that their August Sovereigns have taken part in the Declaration of the 8th February 1815 (No. 7), by which the Powers assembled at the 'Congress of Vienna, have proclaimed in the face of Europe, their invariable resolution to put a stop to the Commerce known by the name of the African Slave Trade : Considering moreover, that notwithstanding this Declaration, and in spite of the legislative measures which have in consequence been adopted in various countries, and of the several Treaties concluded since that period between the Maritime Powerst, this Commerce, solemnly proscribed, has continued to this very day; that it has gained in activity what it may have lost in extension; that it has even taken a still more odious character, and more dreadful from the nature of the means to which those, who carry it on, are compelled to have recourse : That the causes of so revolting an abuse are chiefly to be found in the fraudulent practices, by means of which, the persons engaged in these nefarious speculations, elude the laws of their country and the vigilance of the cruizers stationed to put a stop to their iniquities; and veil those criminal operations, of which thousands of human beings annually become their innocent victims: That the Powers of Europe are called upon by their previous Engagements, as well as by sacred duty, to seek the most efficient means of preventing a traffic, which the laws of almost every civilised country have already declared to be culpable and illegal ; and of punishing with severity those who persist in carrying it on, in manifest violation of those laws; Acknowledge the necessity of devoting the most serious * For French version, see "State Papers," vol. iii, p. 1. + These documents are all to be found in "Hertslet's Treaties." 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