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rendered to a particular part of territory, or which are charged upon secularized property lying in one of those parts-in a word, all pensions which, according to the nature of their origin, belonged to any territory in particular, shall be paid by the Party possessing the property upon which they were originally assigned. The pensions granted to the army shall be paid by the Government possessing the territory where the pensioner was born.

All other pensions, which do not come under this head, shall be divided in proportion to the revenues, in the manner which has been settled for public debts.

Annuities shall be provided for in the same manner as debts, and paid, either wholly or in part, by the two Governments, according as different parts of a territory, or a whole country, are burdened with them.

Local Functionaries and Persons in Office to remain in Ceded Territories. Pensions if allowed to Retire.

ART. X. The Local Functionaries and other persons in office shall go with the territories ceded in the divided bailiwicks; the Government to whom the place of their actual residence may pass shall accept their services.

All central and provincial functionaries employed in the administrations of Wiesbaden, Weilburg, Dietz, and Dillenburg, shall either continue with, or be transferred to the House of Nassau. Prussia shall take charge of those of Ehrenbreitstein.

The central functionaries who cannot continue in the service of either of the two Governments, or who shall be allowed to retire, by either Party, in three months from the date of the present Convention, shall receive the pensions or superannuations fixed by the Edict of the Duke and Prince of Nassau, of the 3rd and 6th December, 1811.

These pensions shall be paid by the two Governments, according to the rate agreed upon with respect to debts.

No public officer who is to be provided for by either Government, shall be placed upon a less favourable footing than that fixed in the said Edict.

Military Persons to return to their Native Country after the Campaign. Officers may remain in Service of Ceded Country.

ART. XI. All military persons, natives of the territories reciprocally ceded, not holding the rank of an officer, shall, after the conclusion of the approaching campaign, be sent to the military

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authorities of the Government to whom the place of their nativity shall belong until that period they shall continue in the service in which they are at present.

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Officers shall not be prevented by the Government to whom the place of their nativity shall remain or be transferred, from having the option of continuing in the service of the other Government.

• Condemned and Insane Persons to be sent to their Native Country. ART. XII. Persons condemned to prisons or houses of correction, and insane persons confined in hospitals, shall be sent to the respective Governments to whom the places of their nativity belong.

Archives of Ceded Territories.

ART. XIII. The Archives and collections of papers shall be given up, according to the partition of the territories, and each Government shall be put in possession of the deeds and instruments which relate to that portion which is ceded to it.

Engagements of Prussia relative to Post Offices of Taxis.

ART. XIV. Prussia undertakes to fulfil the engagements entered into by the Ducal House of Nassau, relative to the Post of Taxis, as far as these engagements attach to those parts of the territory which are ceded to that Power.

Military Road from Giessen to Ehrenbreitstein.

ART. XV. The high road from Giessen to Ehrenbreitstein, which crosses the country of Nassau, shall be made a military road for Prussia, to establish a communication between Erfurth and Coblentz. Whatever has been agreed upon with respect to the Military Roads belonging to Prussia, which pass through the states of the King of Hanover and the Elector of Hesse, shall be applicable to the said road from Giessen to Ehrenbreitstein.

Appointment of Commissioners for the Settlement of Debts,

Pensions, &c.

ART. XVI. In order to settle definitively all such points as require ulterior arrangement, especially such as relate to Debts, Pensions, Public Functionaries, and other persons in office, the two Governments shall appoint Commissioners, immediately after the ratifications of the present Treaty, who shall assemble at Wiesbaden, for the purpose of settling all such arrangements with as

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little delay as possible. They shall be empowered to take such measures as may be necessary, in order that the payment of the interest of Public Debts and that of Pensions may not experience any interruption, that the public credit may not be shaken, and that the business of the public offices may be conducted as heretofore. Nassau to fulfil Engagements made by Prussia with the Netherlands relative to mutual Cessions of Territory, belonging to House of Nassau-Orange.

ART. XVII. As the Convention concluded the 31st May between their Majesties the King of Prussia and the King of the Netherlands, relative to mutual Cessions of territory (No. 22), contains an Article worded as follows:

"A Commission shall be immediately appointed by His Majesty the King of Prussia and His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, to settle whatever relates to the cession of those possessions of the House of Nassau which belong to His Majesty, with regard to records, debts, excesses of the public chests, and other subjects of this nature.

"That part of the records which does not concern the ceded provinces, but only the House of Orange, and libraries, collections of maps, and all other objects of the same description, belonging to His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, shall be retained by him as private and personal property, and shall be immediately restored to His Majesty. A part of the said possessions being exchanged against other possessions of the Duke and Prince of Nassau, His Majesty the King of Prussia engages, and His Majesty the King of the Netherlands consents, that the engagement stipulated in the present Article shall be transferred to their Serene Highnesses the Duke and Prince of Nassau with respect to those possessions which are to be united to their States."*

Their Serene Highnesses the Duke and Prince of Nassau engage to fulfil, in the name and place of His Majesty the King of Prussia, the engagements he has contracted on their account, as far as these engagements concern the territories and portions of territory belonging to the House of Nassau-Orange, which, by the present Treaty, are ceded to them.

Ratifications.

ART. XVIII. The Ratifications of this Convention shall be exchanged in four weeks, or sooner, if possible.

* See Treaty between Prussia and Nassau, of 31st May, 1815, Art. XVII.

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The ceded subjects shall be at once released from the oaths of fidelity which bound them to their former Sovereigns.

In faith of which the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Convention, and have caused to be affixed thereunto the Seal of their Arms.

Done at Vienna the 31st May, 1815.

(L.S.) LE PRINCE DE HARDENBERG. (L.S.) MARSCHALL DE BIEBERSTEIN.

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No. 24.-CONVENTION between Prussia and the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar.-Signed at Vienna, 1st June, 1815.

[This Convention formed Annex VII to the Vienna Congress Treaty of 9th June, 1815, No. 27.]

1. Cessions by Prussia to Saxe-Weimar on borders of Weimar and in Fulda. 2. Cessions to Saxe-Weimar to be settled by a Convention.

3. Other Cessions to be made by Prussia to Saxe-Weimar.

4. New Convention to make arrangements relative to Debts, Records, Public Funds, &c. Saxe-Weimar to fulfil engagements relative to Grand Duchy of Frankfort.

5. Ratifications.

(Translation as laid before Parliament.*)

In the Name of the Most Holy and Undivided Trinity.

His Majesty the King of Prussia being desirous of carrying into effect the arrangements agreed upon at the Congress of Vienna, in favour of His Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar, and which His Prussian Majesty has engaged to fulfil; and His Majesty, as well as His Royal Highness the Grand Duke, having resolved to conclude a particular Treaty for this purpose, the two Sovereigns have named Plenipotentiaries to concert, agree upon, and sign, whatever relates to this subject, viz. :

His Majesty the King of Prussia, the Prince Hardenberg, his Chancellor of State, his First Plenipotentiary at the Congress of Vienna, &c.;

And the Sieur Charles William, Baron Humboldt, his Minister of State, Chamberlain, and Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to His Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty, his Second Plenipotentiary at the Congress of Vienna;

And His Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar, the Sieur Ernest Augustus, Baron de Gersdorff, his Privy Councillor ;

Who, after having exchanged their full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed to the following Articles: * For French Version, see "State Papers," vol. ii, p. 100,