[Dutch Proprietors. Demerara, Essequibo, and Berbice.]

the payment may be demanded, so that no later creditor shall derive, from this arrangement, any power to affect the rights of the original creditor, and that no further suspension of payment (surchéance) beyond that herein agreed upon, shall take place without the original creditor's especial consent.

It is further agreed, that in order to entitle the mortgagee to receive the security specified in this Article, he shall, as soon as the said security is duly recorded in the said Colony and delivered to the mortgagee or his agent, in the Colony (the expenses of such record being defrayed by the Proprietors), deliver up to be cancelled the mortgages or bonds originally granted to him, or exhibit legal proof that the said mortgages and bonds have been duly cancelled, and are no longer of any value.

It is further expressly agreed, that, with the exceptions of the modifications specified in this Article, the rights of mortgagees and creditors shall remain intact.

Privileges of Dutch Proprietors.

ART. V. It is agreed that all Dutch proprietors, acknowledged to be such by the present Convention, shall be entitled to supply their Estates from the Netherlands with the usual articles of supply; and in return, to export to the Netherlands the produce of the said estates. But that all other importation of goods from the Netherlands into the Colonies, or export of produce from the Colonies to the Netherlands, shall be strictly prohibited; and it is further agreed, that the exportation of all such articles as may be prohibited to be exported to those Colonies from the British dominions, shall be also prohibited to be exported from the Netherlands.

Description of Dutch Proprietors.

ART. VI. By Dutch Proprietors are to be understood :1st. All subjects of His Majesty the King of the Netherlands resident in his said Majesty's European dominions, who are at present Proprietors in the said Colonies.

2udly. All subjects of His said Majesty who may hereafter become possessed of Estates now belonging to Dutch Proprietors therein.

3rdly. All such Proprietors as being now resident in the above Colonies, and being natives of the Netherlands, may (by virtue of Article VIII of the present Convention) declare that they wish to continue to be considered as such; and

[Dutch Proprietors. Demerara, Essequibo, and Berbice.]

4thly. All subjects of His said Majesty who may be the holders of Mortgages on Estates in the said Colonies, made prior to the date of this Convention, and who may, under their mortgage deeds, have the right of exporting from the said Colonies to the Netherlands, the produce of the said Estates; subject, nevertheless, to the restrictions specified in Article IX.

Supplies for Mortgaged Estates, &c.

ART. VII. In all cases where the right of supplying the mortgaged estate with articles of supply, and exporting produce from it to the Netherlands, is not actually secured to the mortgagee by the mortgage deed, the mortgagee shall be allowed to export from the colony only such quantity of produce as will be sufficient, when estimated at the current prices of the colony, to pay the amount of interest or principal annually due to him and to import into the colony articles of supply in the same proportion.

Declaration to be made by Proprietors.

ART. VIII. All Proprietors, subjects to His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, now residing in the above Colonies, must, in order to entitle themselves to the benefit of this Convention, declare, within 3 months after the publication of this Convention in the said colonies, whether they wish to be considered as such.

Double Mortgages.

ART. IX. In all cases where both Dutch and British subjects have Mortgages upon the same property in the said colonies, the quantity of produce to be consigned to the different mortgagees, shall be in proportion to the amount of the debts respectively due to them.

Annual Lists of Proprietors and Estates.

ART. X. In order more easily to carry into effect, and the better to ensure the execution of the provisions of this Convention, it is agreed, that exact and specific Lists shall be made out every year, by order of the King of the Netherlands, containing the names and places of abode of the Proprietors resident in the Netherlands, together with the name and description of the Estate belonging to them respectively, specifying whether the same be a sugar or other plantation, and whether the whole or only part of the Estate belongs to the Proprietor in question: similar Lists

[Dutch Proprietors. Demerara, Essequibo, and Berbice.]

shall also be made out of the existing Mortgages on estates, in as far as these mortgages are held by Dutch subjects, specifying the amount of the debt on Mortgage, either actually existing, or to be made out by virtue of the provisions of Article IV.

These lists shall be delivered over to the British Government, and shall be sent to the Colonies in question, in order to make out from them, in conjunction with a list of the Dutch Proprietors resident in the said Colonies, the whole amount of the Dutch population and property on interest in the said Colonies.

Berbice Association.

ART. XI. His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, having represented to His Britannic Majesty that the Company of Dutch Merchants and others (styling themselves the Berbice Association), have a just claim to certain Estates formerly settled by them in the colony of Berbice, of which they were dispossessed by the Revolutionary Government of Holland, and which, on the capture of the said colony by His Britannic Majesty, were considered as Government property; his Britannic Majesty engages to restore to the said Berbice Association, within six months after the exchange of the ratifications of the present Convention, the Estates of Dageraad, Dankbaarheid, Johanna, and Sandvoort, together with all the Negroes and stock now actually employed upon the same; such restoration to be in full compensation and satisfaction of all claims which the said Association may have, or may pretend to have, against His Britannic Majesty or his subjects, on account of any property heretofore belonging to them in the Colony of Berbice.

Judicial Decisions, &c.

ART. XII. All questions of a private nature, relating to such Property as comes within the operation of this Convention, shall be decided by competent judicial authority, according to the laws in force in the said colonies.

Fairness and Impartiality.

ART. XIII. His Britannic Majesty engages, that the utmost fairness and impartiality shall be shewn in all matters affecting the rights and interests of Dutch Proprietors.

[Dutch Proprietors. Demerara, Essequibo, and Berbice.]

Modifications.

ART. XIV. The two High Contracting Parties reserve to themselves the power of making such future modifications in the present Convention as experience may point out to be desirable for the interest of both.

Operation of Treaty.

ART. XV. Lastly, it is agreed, that the provisions of this Convention shall be in force from the date of the exchange of the ratifications.

Ratifications.

ART. XVI. The present Convention shall be ratified, and the ratifications thereof shall be exchanged in London, within 3 weeks from the date thereof, or sooner, if possible.

In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed it, and affixed thereunto the Seal of their Arms.

Done at London, the 12th of August, in the year of Our Lord

1815.

(L.S.) BATHURST. (L.S.) W. FAGEL.

See Netherlands Decree of 21st December, 1815. "State Papers," vol. iii, p. 770; and Acts of the British Parliament, 56 Geo. III, c. 91, 26th June, 1816; and 1 Geo. IV, c. 34, 8th July, 1820.

[Territorial.]

No. 33.-TREATY between France and Sardinia. Signed at Paris, 19th September, 1815.

Conditions of Restitution of part of Savoy to Sardinia.

(Translation.)

His Majesty the King of France and Navarre, and His Majesty the King of Sardinia wishing, by the restitution to His said Majesty the King of Sardinia of the part of Savoy which had been left to France by the Treaty of Paris of the 30th May, 1814 (No. 1), to cause all occasion of disunion and misunderstanding which might arise between them to disappear, have for that purpose appointed as their Plenipotentiaries, namely:

His Majesty the King of France and of Navarre, the Sieur Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, Prince de Bénévent, &c.;

And His Majesty the King of Sardinia, Count Thaon Revel de Pralong, his Minister Plenipotentiary to His Most Christian Majesty, &c.;

Who, after having exchanged their Full Powers, found to be in good and due form, have agreed upon the following Articles:

Restoration of Part of Savoy to Sardinia.

ART. I. His Majesty the King of France and of Navarre restores to His Majesty the King of Sardinia the part of Savoy which had been left to France by the Treaty of 30th May, 1814 (No. 1).

Date of Delivery.

ART. II. The delivery of the above-mentioned part of Savoy shall take place within 15 days after the Exchange of the Ratifications of the present Treaty.

Ratifications.

ART. III. The present Treaty shall be ratified, and the Ratifi