His Serene Highness the Duke of Holstein- The free city of Frankfort, the Sieur Johý Oldenburg, the Sieur Albert, Baron de Malt- Ernest Frederic Danz, Doctor of Laws, and zahn, President of the Goverenment of the Senator of that city. principality of Lubeck, Grand Cross of the The free city of Bremen, the Sieur John Russian Order of St. Anne, and Knight of St. Schmidt, Senator of that city. John of Jerusalem.

The free city of Hamburgh, the Sieur John llis Serene Highness the Duke of Meck- Michael Gries, Recorder of that city. lenburg-Schwerin, the Sieur Leopold, Baron Conformably to the above agreement, the de Plessen, his Minister of Slate, Grand Cross said Plenipotentiaries, after exchanging their of the Order of Dannebrog.

full powers, found in due forın, have agreed His Serene Highness the Duke of Meck- upon the following Articles ; lenburg Strelitz, the Sieur Augustus Otto ART. I. The Sovereign Princes and free Ernest, Baron de Oertzen, his Minister of towns of Germany, ainong whom, as far as State, Grand Cross of the Order of the Red concerns the present Act, are included their Eagle of Prussia.

Majesties the Emperor of Austria, the Kings His Serene Highness the Duke of Anhalt- of Prussia, of Denmark, and of the Nether. Dessau, on his own part, and in the capacity lands; that is to say, the Emperor of Austria of guardian to the Duke of Anhalt-Köthen, a "and the King of Prussia for all those of their minor, and his Serene Highness the Duke of possessions which anciently belonged to the Anhalt-Bernbourg, jointly, the Sieur Wolf German Empire; the King of Denmark for Charles Augustus de Wulfframsdorff, Presi- the Duchy of Holstein, and the King of the dent of the government of Dessau.

Netherlands for the Grand Duchy of LuxemHis Serene Highness the Prince of Hohen- bourg, establish among themselves a perpe. zollern-Hechingen, the Sieur Francis An- tual Confederation, which shall be called thony, Baron de Franck, his Privy Counsellor. “ The Germanic Confederation."

His Serene Highness the Duke of Hohen- ART. II. The object of this Confederation zollern-Sigmaringen, the Sieur John Francis is the maintenance of the external and inter, Louis de Kirchbauer, his Privy Counsellor of nal safety of Germany, and of the independLegation.

ance and inviolability of the confcdcrated Their Serene Highnesses the Dukeand Prince States. of Nassau, the Sieurs Francis Christopher, ART. III. The Members of the Confedera: Baron de Gagern, and Ernest Francis Louis, tion, as such, are equal in respect to rights ; Mareschall von Bieberstein, Grand Cross of and they all equally engage to support the the Order of Fidelity, Plenipotentiary of his Act which constitutes their union. Majesty the king of the Netherlands, for his ART. IV. The affairs of the Confederation German dominions, and of their Serene High- shall be confided to a Federative Diet, in nesses the Duke and Prince of Nassau. which all the Members shall vote by their

His Serene Highness the Prince of Lichten- Plenipotentiaries, either individually or col. stein, the Sieur George Walter Vincent de lectively, in the following manner, without Wiese, Vice-Chancellor of the government of prejudice to their rank: the Prince of Reuss, at Gera.

Vote, His Serene Highness the Prince of Sch- 1. Austria

1 wartzbourg-Sondershausen, the Sieur Adol- 2. Prussia

1 phus de Wiese, his Privy Counsellor and 3. Bavaria Chancellor.

4. Saxony

1 His Serene Highness the Prince of Sch- 5. Hanover. wartzbourg-Rudolstadt, the Sieur Frederic 6. Wurtemburg Williain, Baron de Kettelholdt, his Chancel- 7. Baden..... and President, Hereditary Cup-bearer of the 8. Electoral Hesse county of Henneberg, and Grand Cross of the 9. Grand Duchy of Hesse Order of Fidelity of the Grand Duke of Baden. 10. Denmark, for Holstein His

Serene Highness the Prince of Waldeck 11. The Netherlands, for the Grand and Pyrmont, the Sieur Günther Henry de Duchy of Luxembourg :

1 Berg, Doctor of Laws, and President of the

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12. Grand-Ducal and Ducal Houses of vernment of the Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe. Saxony

1 Their Serene Highnesses the Princes of 13. Brunswick and Nassau

1 Reuss, of the elder and younger branch, the 14. Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Sieur George Walter Vincent de Wiese, Vice- Mecklenburg-Strelitz

1 Chancellor of the government of Gera.

15. Holstein-Oldenburg, Anhalt and His Serene Highness the Prince of Schaum

Schwartzburg

1 burg-Lippe, the Sieur Günther Henry de Berg. 16. Hohenzollern,

Lichtenstein, Reuss, Her Serene Highness the Princess of Lippe, Schaumburg-Lippe, Lippe and in the capacity of Regent and Guardian to the

Waldeck .....

1 Prince her son, the Sieur Frederic William 17. The Free Towns of Lubeck, FrankHellwing, her Chancellor of government.

fort, Bremen and Hamburgh .. 1 The tree city of Lubeck, the Sieur John Frederic Hack, Doctor of Laws, and Senator

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ART. V. Austria shall preside at the Fede- , shall prepare the drafts of resolutions to be rative Diet. Each State of the Confederation proposed to the General Assembly, and shall has the right of making propositions, and the furnish the latter with all the information presiding State shall bring them under deli- necessary, either for adopting or rejecting beration within a definite time.

them.--The plurality of votes shall regulate ART. VI. Whenever fundamental laws are the decisions, both in the Ordinary and Geto be enacted, or changes made in the funda- neral Assemblies, with this difference, howmental laws of the Confederation, measures ever, that, in the Ordinary Assembly, the abto be adopted relative to the Federative Act solute majority shall be deemed sufficient, itself, and organic institutions, or other are while, in the other, two-thirds of the votes rangements to be made for the common in- shall be necessary to form the plurality. terest, the Diet shall form itself into a Gene When the votes are even in the Ordinary Asral Assembly, and, in that case, the distribu- sembly, the President shall decide the question of the votes shall be as follows, calculated tion : but when the Assembly is to deliberate according to the respective extent of the dif- on the acceptation or change of any of the ferent States :

fundamental laws, upon organic institutions,

Votes. upon individual rights, or upon affairs of reliAustria shall have

gion, the majority shall not be deemed suffiPrussia ..

cient, either in the Ordinary or in the General Saxony

Assembly. The Diet is permanent, but may, Bavaria

when the objects submitted to its deliberaHanover

tion are terminated, adjourn for a period not Wurtemburg

exceeding four months.-All ulterior disposiBaden ....

tions relative to the adjournment, or the exElectoral Hesse ...

3 pedition of pressing affairs, which may ariso Grand Duchy of Hesse

3 during the recess, are reserved for the Dict, Holstein

3 which shall take due notice of them when Luxembourg

3 engaged in the drawing up of the Organic Brunswick

2 Laws. Mecklenburg-Schwerin

2 ART. VIII. In regard to the order in which Nassau ...

the members of the Confederation shall vote, Saxe-Weimar

1 it is determined, that while the 1)iet is occuSaxe-Gotha

1 pied with framing Organic Laws, there shall Saxe-Coburg...

1 be no fixed rule in this respect; and whatever Saxe-Meinungen

1 may be the rule that is observed on such an Saxe-Hildburghausen

occasion, it shall neither prejudice any of the Mecklenburg-Strelitz

1 members, nor establish a precedent for the Holstein-Oldenburg.

future. After framing the Organic Laws, the Anhalt-Dessau...

1 Diet shall deliberate upon the manner of fixAnhalt Bernbourg

1 ing this object, by a permanent regulation; Anhalt-koethen

for which purpose it shall depart as little as Schwartzbourg-Sondershausen

1 possible from those regulations which have Schwartzbourg-Rudolstadt ...

been observed by the ancient Diet, and chiefly Hohenzollern-Hechingen

according to the recess of the Deputation of Lichtenstein...

1 the empire in 1803 : the order to be adopted Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen

shall not in any way influence the rank and Waldeck ....

precedence of the members of the Confede Reuss, (Elder Branch)

1 ration, except in as far as they have any relaReuss, (Younger Branch)

tions with the Diet. Schaumburg-Lippe

ART. IX, The Diet shall sit at Frankfort Lippe.....

on the Maine. Its first meeting is fixed for The Free Town of Lubeck ..

the 1st of September 1815. Frankfort

1 ART. X. The first object to be considered Bremen..

by the Diet after its meeting, shall be the Hamburgh

1 enactment of the fundamental laws of the

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69 with respect to its exterior, military, and The Diet, in deliberating on the Organic interior relations. Laws of the Confederation, shall consider ART. XI. l'he States of the Confederation whether it be proper to grant to the ancient engage to defend from all hostile attack, mediatised districts of the Empire any collec- the whole of Germany, as well as each inditive votes.

vidual state of the Union; and they nutually ART. VII. The question, whether a subject guarantee to each other all their possessions is to be discussed by the General Assembly, comprised in this Union. When war is deconformably to the principles above estab clared by the Confederation, no member can lished, shall be decided in the ordinary As open a separate negociation with the enemy, sembly by a majority. The same Assembly nor make peace, nor conclude an armistice,

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without the consent of the other members.-|(Ebenbürtigkeit,) as they have hitherto enWhile they reserve to themselves the right of joyed.-B.—The heads of these houses are to forming alliances, the members of the Con- form the principal class of the states in the federation bind themselves, nevertheless, not countries to which they belong: they, as well to contract any engagement which might be as their families, are to be included in the directed against the safety of the Confede- number of the most privileged persons, parration or of any of the individual states com- ticularly in respect to taxes.-C.-With reposing it. The confederated states engage, gard to themselves, their families and proin the saine manner, not to make war on one perty, they are generally to retain all the another, on any prctext, nor to pursue their rights and privileges attached to their posdifferences by force of arms, but to submit sessions, and which do not belong to the them to the Diet, which shall attempt a me- supreme authority, or to the attributes of diation by means of a Commission. If this government. should not succeed in bringing the contend- Among the rights which are secured to ing parties to an accommodation, and a juri- them by this Article, are specially included, dical sentence becomes necessary, it shall be 1. The perfect liberty of residing in any state obtained by a well organized Austregal jury belonging to the Confederation, or at peace [ Austregal instanz,) to which the contending with it. 2. The maintenance of family comparties are to submit without appeal.

pacts, conformably to the ancient constitution 2. Particular arrangements.

of Germany; and the right of connecting

their estates and the members of their famiBesides the points settled in the preceding lies, by obligatory arrangements; which, Articles, relative to the establishment of the however, ought to be made known to the Confederation, the confederated states have sovereign,and to the public authorities. The agreed to the arrangements contained in the laws by which this right has been hitherto following Articles, with regard to the subjects restricted, shall not be applicable to future hereafter mentioned; which Articles shall 3. The privilege of being amenable have the same force and validity as the pre- only to superior tribunals, and of being exceding ones.

empt from all military conscription, for thenART, XII. Those members of the Confe- selves and families. 4. The exercise of civil deration whose possessions do not contain a and criminal jurisdiction, in the first instance; population to the number of 300,000 souls, and, if the possessions are sufficiently extenshall unite themselves to the reigning houses sive, in the second instance; the exercise of of the same line, or to others of the confe- the forest jurisdiction, of the local police, and derated states, whose population, added to of the inspection of churches, schools, and theirs, will amount to the number here spe- charitable institutions: the whole conformably cified, for the purpose of jointly forming a to the laws of the country to which they supreme tribunal. In those states, however, remain subject, as well as to the military of a smaller population, where similar tri- regulations and supreme authority reserved bunals of the third instance already exist, they to the governments, respecting objects of the shall be continued, on their present footing, above-mentioned prerogatives, for the better provided the population of the state to which determining them, and, in general, for the they belong, be not less than 150,000 souls. adjusting and consolidating the rights of The four free cities shall have the right of mediatised princes, counts, and lords, in a upiting together, in the formation of a com- manner uniform to all the states of the Germon and supreme tribunal. Each party ap- man Confederation. The Ordinance issued pearing before these joint and supreme tri- upon this subject, by his Majesty the King of bunals shall be authorized to demand a re- Bavaria, in 1807, shall be adopted as a general ference of the proceedings to the Faculty of rule.-The ancient and immediate nobility of Law belonging to a foreign University, or to the empire shall enjoy the rights specified in a Court of Reference (siège d'echevin) to sections 1 and 2 ; namely, of sitting in the whom the final sentence shall be submitted. Assembly of the States, of exercising the

ART. XI!I. There shall be Assemblies of patrimonial and forest jurisdiction, of the the States in all the countries belonging to local police, of presentations to church benethe Confederation,

fices, as well as of not being amenable to the ART. XIV. In order to secure to the an- ordinary tribunals. These rights shall, howcient States of the empire, mediatised in 1806, ever, be exercised according to the regulations and in the subsequent years, the enjoyment established by the laws of the country in of equal rights in all countries belonging to which the members of this nobility have the Confederation, and conformable to the possessions. In the provinces detached from relations at present existing between them, Germany by the peace of Luneville of the 9th the confederated states establish the following of February 1801, and which are at present principles :-A.-The houses of the media- re-united thereto, the principles above specitised princes and counts are nevertheless to fied, relative to the ancient and immediate rank equally with the high nobility of Ger-nobility of the empire, shall, in their applicamany, and are to retain the same privileges tion, be subject to such modifications as may of birth-right with the sovereign houses be rendered necessary by the relations which

exist in these provinces.

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ART. XV. The continuation of the direct of the recess of the Deputation of the empires and subsidiary rents assigned upon the duties unless, however, an indemnity shall have of the navigation of the Rhine, as well as the been absolutely settled by a particular Conarrangements of the recess of the Deputation vention. of the empire, dated the 25th of February

ART. XVIII. The Princes and the free 1803, relative to the payment of debts and towns of Germany have agreed to secure to pensions granted to individuals of the clergy the subjects of the confederated States, the or laity, are guaranteed by the Confederation. following rights. ---A.-That of acquiring and The members of the late chapters of the possessing funded property beyond the limits cathedral churches, as well as those of the of the state in which they are settled, without free chapters of the empire, shall have the being liable to pay to the foreign Power any benefit of the pensions secured to them by higher tax or duty than those paid by its own the said recess, in every country at peace subjects.-B.--. That of emigrating from with the Germanic Confederation. The one confederated state to another, provided it members of the Teutonic Order, who have be proved that the state in which they settle not yet obtained adequate pensions, shall receive them as subjects. 2. That of entering obtain them according to the principles es- into the civil or military service of any of the tablished for the chapters of cathedral confederated States; it being, however, unchurches by the recess of the Deputation of derstood, that the exercise of either of these the empire of the year 1803; and the Princes rights does not release them from being liable who have acquired possessions formerly be to military service in their own country. And longing to the Teutonic Order, shall pay these in order that the difference of the laws with pensions, according to their proportion of the regard to their liability to military service property of the Teutonic Order.' The Diet of may not be attended with any partial advanihe Confederation shall deliberate upon the tages or injurious consequences to any parmeasures to be adopted for establishing a fund ticular state, the Diet of the Confederation for the support and pensioning of bishops and shall consider of the means of establishing other menubers of the clergy belonging to the regulations upon this subject, as impartial as countries on the left bank of the Rhine, the possible.-C.--The exemption from all export payment of which pensions shall be trans- duty, drawback, or other impost of that'deferred to the Powers actually possessing the scription, in case they remove their property said countries. This matter shall be settled from one confederated state to another, unless within a year, and until that time the pen- it should be otherwise stipulated by particular sions shall be paid as heretofore.

Conventions concluded between them.--D.ART. XVI. The different Christian sects in upon its first meeting, the Diet shall frame the countries and territories of the Germanic | laws for the liberty of the press in general, Confederation, shall not experience any dif- and shall adopt such measures as may secure ference in the enjoyment of civil and political authors and editors against the piracy of their rights. The Diet shall consider of the means works. of effecting, in the most uniform manner, an

ART. XIX. The confederated states reserve amelioration in the civil state of those who to themselves the right of deliberating, at the profess the Jewish religion in Germany, and first meeting of the Diet at Frankfort, upon shall pay particular attention to the measures the manner of regulating the commerce and by which the enjoyment of civil rights shall navigation from one state to another, accordbe secured and guaranteed to them in the ing to the principles adopted by the Congress confederated states; upon condition, how- of Vienna. ever, of their submitting to all the obligations ART. XX. The present Act shall be ratified imposed upon other citizens. In the mean by all the Contracting Parties, and the ratititime, the privileges already granted to this cations shall

, in six weeks, or sooner if possect, by any particular state, shall be secured sible, be addressed to the Royal and State to them.

Chancery of his Majesty the Emperor of ART. XVII. The family of the Princes of Austria at Vienna, and deposited in the arTour and Taxis shall retain the revenues aris-chives of the Confederation, on the opening ing, from the post in the confederated states, of the Diet. In faith of which all the Pleniunder the same regulations as were granted potentiaries have signed the present insiniby the recess of the Deputation of the empire ment, and have affixed thereunto the scal of of the 25th February 1803, or by subsequent their arms. Done at Vienna, the 8th June Conventions, in so far as they shall not have 1815. been altered by new Conventions freely ac- Signed (L. S.) Prince Metternich. ceded to on both sides. In all cases the

(L. S.) Baron M'essenberg. rights and pretensions of this house, whether with regard to retaining the post, or to a fair

(L. S.) Charles Prince Hardenberg. indemnity for the same, such as the above

(L. S.) William Baron Humboldt. recess has settled, shall be maintained. This

(L. S.) Ch. Count Bernstorff regulation also applies to the case where the former administration of the post may have

(L. S.) J. Count Bernstorff. been abolished since 1803, in contravention

(L. S.) A. Count Rechberg and Ro

(L. S.) John Augustus Baron Glo limits on the right bank of that river; and big.

their said Majesties having resolved to con (L. S.) H. Baron Gagern.

clude a separate Treaty on this subject, con(L. S.) E. Count Munster.

formably to the arrangements of the Congress

of Vienna, have appointed Plenipotentiaries (L. S.) Count Hardenberg.

to concert, agree upon, and sign whatever (L. S.) Count Keller, acting at the relates to this subject, viz: His Majesty the

same time for Brunswick. Emperor of Austria, King of långary and (L. S.) G. J. Baron Lepel.

Bohemia, the Sievir Clement, Vinceslas Lo(L. S.) J. Baron Turckheim.

thaire, Prince Metternich-Winnebourg-Och:

senhausen, Knight of the Golden Fleece, (L. S.) Baron Minkwitz, in the place Grand Cross of the Royal Order of St. Alex

of Mr. de Gersdorff ; ander Newsky, and of St. Anne of the First Plenipotentiary of the Class; Grand Cordon of the Legion of HoGrand Duke of Weimar, nour; Knight of the Order of the Elephant, and of the Dukes of Sare- of the Supreme Order of the Annunciation, of Gotha and of Sure-Mei- the Black Eagle and the Red Eagle, of the nungen,

Seraphim, Knight of the Order of St. Joseph (L. S.) Baron Baumbach.

of Tuscany, of St. Hubert, of the Golden (L, S.) Baron Fischler von Treu- Eagle of Wirtemburg, of Fidelity of Baden, berg,

of St. John of Jerusalem, and of several

others; Chancellor of the Military Order (L. S.) Baron Asaltzahn.

of Maria Theresa, Curator of the Academy (L. S.) Leopold Baron Plessen. of the Fine Arts, Chamberlain, intimate (L. S.) Baron Oertzen.

and actual Counsellor of his Majesty the (L. S.) De Wolfframsdorff.

Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and

Bohemia, bis Minister of State, of Confer(L. S.) Buron Franck.

ences, and of Foreign Affairs, iis principal (L. S.) Francis Aloysius Kirchbauer. Plenipotentiary at the Congress; and the (L. S.) De Marschall von Bieber- Sieur Jolin Philip Baron Wessenberg, Knight stein.

Grand Cross of the Military and Religious (L. S.) Dr. George Wiese, Pleni- Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus, Cham

potentiary of the Princes berlain, and intimate and actual Counsellor of potentiary of the Princes his Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty, his Lichtenstein and Rcuss.

second' Plenipotentiary at the Congress; and (L. S.) De IVeise.

his Majesty the King of the Netherlands, the (L. S.) Baron Kettelholdt.

Sieur Gerhard Charles Baron de Spaen de (L. S.) De Berg, acting for Wal- Voorstonden, Member of the Corps of Nobles

deck and Schaumburg of the province of Gueldre, Envoy ExtraorLippe.

dinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from (L. S.) Hellwing.

his Majesty the King of the Netherlands,

Prince of Orange-Nassau, Grand Duke of (L. S.) Hach.

Luxemburg, at the Court of Vienna, and one (L. S.) Danz.

of his Plenipotentiaries at the Congress; and (L. S.) Schmidt.

the Sicur Hans Christopher Ernest, Baron (L. S.) Gries.

de Gagern, Grand Cross of the Order of the Lion of Hesse, and of the Order of Fidelity of

Baden, Plenipotentiary of his said Majesty at ACT, No. X.--Treaty between the King of the Congress of Vienna ; who, after having the Netherlands, Prussia, England, Aus- exchanged their full powers, found in good tria, and Russia, of the 31st May 1815.

and due form, have agreed to the following In the Name of the Most Holy and Undi

Articles : vided Trinity.

ART. I. The old United Provinces of the

Netherlands, and the former Belgic Provinces, His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, King both within the limits fixed by the following of Hungary and Bohemia, and his Majesty article, shall forin, together with the countries the King of the Netherlands, being desirous designated in the same article, under the of carrying into effect and of completing the sovereignty of his royal highness the Prince of arrangements contained in the Treaty of Orange-Nassau, Sovereign Prince of the Peace concluded at Paris the 30th of May United Provinces, the kingdom of the Nether1814, which, while it establishes a just equi- lands; hereditary in the order of succession librium in Europe, and assigns to the United already established by the Act of the ConstiProvinces such a proportion of territory as tution of the said United Provinces. His may enable them to support their own inde- Majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of pendance, secures to them the countries com- Hungary and Bohenia, acknowledges the prised between the sea, the frontiers of title and prerogatives of the royal dignity in France, and the Meuse, leaves undefined their the House of Orange-Nassau.

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