[Pomerania, Rugen, and Lauenburg.]

His Majesty the King of Prussia shall cause to be delivered to His Majesty the King of Denmark, for these sums, four bonds, each for 500,000 crowns, payable at the four above-mentioned periods, and bearing 4 per cent. interest.

These bonds shall be delivered at the time of the taking possession of Swedish Pomerania, in the name of His Prussian Majesty, and the payment of interest shall reckon from the same period.

The first payment of these interests shall begin on the 1st January, 1816, and their payment shall continue from six to six months.

Each of these different payments, including the amount stipulated in the preceding Article, shall be made at Hamburgh, and to the persons charged by His Danish Majesty to receive them.

Date of Delivery of Duchy of Lauenburg to Denmark. ART. VIII. His Majesty the King of Prussia engages to make over the Duchy of Lauenburg to the Danish Government, if possible, within the period of two, and at most within three months, from the date of the signature of the present Treaty.

Settlement of Claims.

ART. IX. The two High Contracting Parties, wishing to terminate as soon as possible the discussions relative to the Claims arising out of grievances or complaints which their respective subjects considered they could make before the last war, against either one or the other of the two Governments, and considering that the method adopted by the Convention of the 2nd of June of last year, as well as by the Treaty of the 25th of August of the same year, is subject to inevitable delays and difficulties, agree to treat upon that subject between Government and Government, and on either side to afford the necessary facilities, in order that this question may be terminated at the period of the taking possession of the respective ceded Provinces.‡

*

Ratifications.

ART. X. His Majesty the King of Denmark and His Majesty the King of Prussia will ratify the present Treaty, and the Rati

* Commerce only.

+ See Appendix.

On the 7th June, 1815, a Treaty was concluded between Prussia and Sweden, under the Mediation of Russia (see Appendix); and Declarations were exchanged on the same day, between Denmark and Sweden, relative to the Treaty of Kiel of 14th January, 1814.

[Pomerania, Rugen, and Lauenburg.]

fications thereof shall be exchanged at the head-quarters of the Allied Sovereigns, within the period of six weeks, or sooner, if possible.

In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Treaty, and have affixed thereto the Seal of their Arms.

Done at Vienna, the 4th June, of the year of Our Lord, 1815. (L.S.) C. BERNSTORFF.

(L.S.) J. BERNSTORFF.

(L.S.) LE PRINCE DE HARDENBERG. (L.S.) LE BARON DE HUMBOLDT.

[Constitution of Germany.]

No. 26.-Federative Constitution of Germany. Vienna,

8th June, 1815.*

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

ART.

1. Germanic Confederation.

2. Object of the Confederation. 3. Equality of the Members.

4. Federative Diet.

5. Presidency of Austria at Diet.

TABLE.

6. Composition of the General Assembly.

7. Arrangements relating to the Diet.

8. Order of Voting in Diet.

9. Diet to assemble at Frankfort.

10. The Framing of Fundamental Laws.

11. 1. Maintenance of Peace in Germany. Disputes to be settled through Mediation of the Diet, or by an Austregal Court.

11. 2. Particular Arrangements.

12. Formation of Supreme Tribunals.

13. Separate Assemblies of States.

14. Rights of Mediatised Princes. Rights of the Ancient Nobility of the Empire.

15. Guarantee by the Confederation of the Rents assigned upon the Naviga tion Duties of the Rhine, and of the Pensions to the Clergy or Laity. Pensions to Members of the Teutonic Order. Fund for support of Bishops and Clergy on left bank of the Rhine.

16. Quality of Civil and Political Rights to Christian Sects. Civil Rights of Jews.

17. Postal Revenues to be retained by Tour and Taxis.

18. Rights of Subjects of Confederate States.

19. Commerce and Navigation from one State to another. 20. Ratifications.

(Translation as laid before Parliament.†)

Germanic Confederation.‡

ART. I. (Embodied in Vienna Congress Treaty (No. 27) as Art. LIII.)

*See Convention between Austria and Prussia, of 1st July, 1816; and Treaty between Great Britain, &c., and France, of 30th November, 1815, Art. VI.

For German Version and French Translation, see "State Papers," vol. ii, p. 114.

See also Final Act of 15th May, 1820.

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Object of the Confederation.

ART. II. (Embodied in Vienna Congress Treaty (No. 27) as Art. LIV.)

Equality of the Members.

ART. III. (Embodied in Vienna Congress Treaty (No. 27) as Art. LV.)

Federative Diet.

ART. IV. (Embodied in Vienna Congress Treaty (No. 27) as Art. LVI.)

Presidency of Austria at Diet.

ART. V. (Embodied in Vienna Congress Treaty (No. 27) as Art. LVII.)

Composition of the General Assembly.

ART. VI. (Embodied in Vienna Congress Treaty (No. 27) as Art. LVIII.)

Arrangements relating to the Diet.

ART. VII. (Embodied in Vienna Congress Treaty (No. 27) as Art. LIX.)

Order of Voting in Diet.

ART. VIII. (Embodied in Vienna Congress Treaty (No. 27) as Art. LX.)

Diet to assemble at Frankfort.

ART. IX. (Embodied in Vienna Congress Treaty (No. 27) as Art. LXI.)

The Framing of Fundamental Laws.

ART. X. (Embodied in Vienna Congress Treaty (No. 27) as Art. LXII.)

Maintenance of Peace in Germany. Disputes to be settled through Mediation of the Diet, or by an Austregal Court.

ART. XI. 1. (Embodied in Vienna Congress Treaty (No. 27) as Art. LXIII.)

[Constitution of Germany].

Particular Arrangements.

ART. XI. 2. Besides the points settled in the preceding Articles, relative to the establishment of the Confederation, the Confederated States have agreed to the arrangements contained in the following Articles, with regard to the subjects hereafter mentioned, which Articles shall have the same force and validity as the preceding ones.

Formation of Supreme Tribunals.

ART. XII. Those members of the Confederation whose possessions do not contain a population to the number of 300,000 souls, shall unite themselves to the reigning Houses of the same line, or to others of the Confederated States whose population added to theirs will amount to the number here specified, for the purpose of jointly forming a Supreme Tribunal.

In those States, however, of a smaller population, where similar tribunals of the Third Instance already exist, they shall be continued on their present footing, provided the population of the State to which they belong be not less than 150,000 souls.

The Four Free Cities shall have the right of uniting together in the formation of a common and supreme Tribunal.

Each party appearing before these joint and supreme Tribunals shall be authorised to demand a reference of the proceedings to the Faculty of Law belonging to a foreign University, or to a Court of Reference (siège d'échevin) to whom the final sentence shall be submitted.

Separate Assemblies of States.

ART. XIII. There shall be Assemblies of the States in all the countries belonging to the Confederation.

Rights of Mediatised Princes.

ART. XIV. In order to secure to the ancient States of the Empire, mediatised in 1806, and in the subsequent years, the enjoyment of equal rights in all countries belonging to the Confede ration, and conformable to the relations at present existing between them, the Confederated States establish the following principles:

A. The Houses of the Mediatised Princes and Counts are nevertheless to rank equally with the high Nobility of Germany, and are to retain the same privileges of birthright with the Sovereign Houses (Ebenbürtigkeit) as they have hitherto enjoyed.