[Poland.] Appointment of Commission to Regulate the Balances due by Foreign States, to the Accounts of Respective Claims of Contracting Parties, and the Claims of Subjects against their Governments. ART. XXXIV. Immediately after the signature of the present Treaty, a Commission shall be named, which shall assemble at Warsaw. It shall be composed of a proper number of Commissioners and assistants: its object shall be: 1. To prepare an exact Balance of what is due by Foreign Governments. 2. To regulate, reciprocally, between the Contracting Parties, the Accounts of their respective Claims. 3. To settle the Claims of Subjects against their Governments. In short, to adjust whatever relates to subjects of this nature. Appointment of Committee for the Restitution of all Securities. ART. XXXV. As soon as the Commission mentioned in the preceding Article shall have entered upon its duties, it shall appoint a committee, for the purpose of proceeding immediately to the necessary arrangement for the restitution of all Securities,. whether consisting of money, or of deeds and documents, which the subjects of one of the Contracting Parties may have given, and which may be found in the States of the other. The same rule shall be observed in all judiciary depôts which may have been transferred from one province to the other. They shall be restored to the jurisdictions of the governments to which they belong. Restitution of Documents, Plans, Maps, or Deeds. Certified Copies of all Documents of Common Interest. ART. XXXVI. All Documents, Plans, Maps, or Deeds whatever, which may be found in the Archives of either of the Contracting Parties, shall be mutually restored to the power whose territory they concern. If a document of this kind be of common interest, the party who is in possession of it shall keep it, but a certified and legalised copy shall be given to the other. Delivery of Acts of Government, Mortgage Books, and Deeds. ART. XXXVII. The Acts of Administration shall be separated; each of the Contracting Parties shall receive the part which concerns his States. [Poland.] The same rule shall be observed with regard to Mortgage Books and Deeds. In the case provided for in the preceding Article, a legalised copy shall be given. Appointment of Commission to Construct Map of New Frontier. ART. XXXVIII. A Military and Civil Commission shall be immediately appointed, to construct an exact Map of the new frontier, annexing the topographical description thereto, to place the boundary posts, and describe the angles of its situation, so that in no case the least doubt, dispute, or difficulty may arise, if, in the course of time, it should be wished to replace a boundary mark, destroyed by any accident. Continuation of Contract for Salt. ART. XXXIX. It is agreed between the two High Contracting Parties, that the contract for the purchase of 500,000 quintals of Salt, shall be mutually binding, for the term of five years; at the end of which period it may be renewed, on the conditions which shall then be agreed upon. Delivery of Provinces to Austria. ART. XL. Immediately after the ratification of the present Treaty, the necessary orders shall be sent to the commanders of troops, and the competent authorities, for the evacuation of the Provinces which are restored to His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, and for the restitution of the country, to Commissioners, who shall be appointed for this purpose; and this evacuation shall be effected so that it may be completed in six weeks, dating from the day of the exchange of the Ratifications of the present Treaty. Ratifications. ART. XLI. The present Treaty shall be ratified, and the Ratifications exchanged in six days. In faith of which the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed it, and have affixed thereunto the seals of their arms. Done at Vienna, the 21st April of the year of Our Lord 1815. 3rd May (L.S.) LE COMTE DE RASOUMOFFSKY. (L.S.) LE PRINCE DE METTERNICH. [Poland.] No. 13.-TREATY between Prussia and Russia, relating to Poland.* Signed at Vienna, 21st April, 1815. 3rd May [This Treaty formed Annex II to the Vienna Congress Treaty of 9th June, 1815, No. 27.] Preamble. Peace of Europe and tranquillity of Nations. Definitive Arrangement respecting Duchy of Warsaw. Equilibrium and Balance of Power established at Congress of Vienna. 1. Part of Duchy of Warsaw to be possessed by Prussia as Grand Duchy of Posen. 2. Cracow declared to be a Free, Neutral, and Independent Town under the Protection of Austria, Prussia, and Russia. 3. Part of Duchy of Warsaw to be united to Russia. Title of King of Poland to be borne by the Czar. Poles to receive Representative and National Institutions. 4. Emigration. Liberty to Inhabitants of separate Countries to dispose of their Property and withdraw. 5. General Amnesty in Poland. 6. Sequestrations to be removed. Prosecutions to be Annulled. 7. Exceptions to the preceding Article on Confiscations. 8. Recognition of Right of Mixed Subjects to Property. 9. Choice of Domicile to be made within a year. 10. Guardians to make Declarations for Minors. 11. Neglect of Declaration within prescribed time. 12. Power of Mixed Proprietor to Change Domicile within Eight Years. 13. Right of Mixed Proprietor to retain Property in States of a Sovereign of whom he is not a Subject. 14. Extent of Privilege of retaining Property. 15.1 15. Right to dispose of Property by Will, &c. 17. Freedom of Transit of Mixed Proprietors. 18. Treatment of Proprietors of Estates divided by Frontier. 19. Privileges of Shepherds and Drovers. 20. Decisions in Cases of Difference. 21. Sovereignty of Mills, Manufactories, or Foundries in States bordering on Rivers. 22. Freedom of Navigation of Rivers and Canals of Ancient Poland, 1772, and of communication by them with Port of Königsberg. By a Russian Manifesto of 4th February, 1832, the Kingdom of Poland was declared to be perpetually united to the Russian Empire, and to form an integral part thereof. The British Government protested against this Manifesto on the 3rd July, 1832, as being an infraction of the Vienna Congress Treaty. 23. Rivers. Common right of Towage and Landing. 26. Local Rights and Privileges of Towns and Ports. 27. Appointment of Consuls and Commercial Agents. 28. Freedom of Trade between Polish Provinces of 1772 in respect of Produce and Manufactures. Tariff. Certificates of Origin. 29. Freedom of Transit in Ancient Poland. 30. Freedom of Transit. Import Duties. 31. Regulations and Division of Debts of Republic of Poland and Duchy of Warsaw. 32. Table of Sums to be paid to Prussia by Russia and by Duchy of Warsaw, in consequence of Convention of 1797, and of Treaty of Tilsit of 1807. 33. Reimbursement of Debts by Warsaw to Prussia. 34. Prussia to provide three-tenths of New Debts of Warsaw. 35. Russian share of Old Debts of the Duchy. 36. Commission of Accounts at Warsaw. 37. Nomination of Committee by Commission of Accounts at Warsaw. 38. Delivery of Documents, Maps, &c. 39. Delivery of Documents, Maps, &c. 40. Restitution of Depôts placed in Security at Königsberg during the War of 1806, according to Convention of 1810. 41. Construction of Map of new Frontier. 42. Evacuation and Delivery of Territories. 43. Ratifications. (Translation as laid before Parliament.*) Preamble. In the Name of the Most Holy and Undivided Trinity. His Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, and His Majesty the King of Prussia, animated with the desire of cementing more closely the ties of friendship which have united their arms and their subjects in a difficult and sanguinary war, the sacred object of which was to restore peace to Europe and tranquillity to nations, have judged it expedient, in order to fulfil their immediate engagements, and to put an end to all uncertainties, to fix definitely, by a solemn Treaty, everything which concerns the arrangements relative to the Duchy of Warsaw; as well as to settle the state of affairs resulting therefrom, by combined negotiations, founded upon the principles of a just Balance of Power and division of forces, discussed and agreed upon at the Congress of Vienna. For French version see "State Papers," vol. ii, p. 56. [Poland.] The national spirit, the advantages of commerce, the arrangements which may restore stability to the administration, regularity in the finances, public and individual prosperity in the provinces recently obtained, have all been taken into consideration, and their Imperial and Royal Majesties, in order to complete this salutary work, to settle and fix definitely the limits of their States, to agree on all the stipulations which can insure their happiness, have named for their Plenipotentiaries, viz. : His Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, the Sieur Andrew, Count de Rasoumoffsky, His Privy Councillor, and His First Plenipotentiary at the Congress, &c.; And His Majesty the King of Prussia, the Prince Hardenberg, His Chancellor of State, His First Plenipotentiary at the Congress, &c.; Who, after having exchanged their Full Powers, and found them in good and due form, have agreed on the following Articles: these Articles having been negotiated in common with the Treaties between Russia, Austria, and Prussia respectively, are inserted in all their form and tenor, excepting the modifications which are contained in that concluded with His Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty, occasioned by the particular state of affairs. Part of Duchy of Warsaw to be possessed by Prussia as Grand Duchy of Posen. ART. I. (Embodied in Vienna Congress Treaty (No. 27) as Art. II.) Cracow declared to be a Free, Neutral, and Independent Town under the Protection of Austria, Prussia, and Russia. ART. II. (Embodied in Vienna Congress Treaty (No. 27) as Art. VI.) Part of Duchy of Warsaw to be united to Russia. Title of King of Poland to be borne by the Czar. Poles to receive Representa tive and National Institutions. ART. III. (Embodied in Vienna Congress Treaty (No. 27) as Art. I.) Emigration. Liberty to Inhabitants of separate Countries to dispose of their Property and withdraw. ART. IV. If the Inhabitants and Landed Proprietors of the countries which have been separated in consequence of the pre |