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Deposit of Inscriptions.

ART. X. The deposit of these Inscriptions shall be confined to one Treasurer named by the Allied Powers, and to another named by the French Government.

Appointment of Mixed Commission.

ART. XI. There shall be a Mixed Commission, composed of an equal number on both sides, of Allied and French Commissioners, who shall examine every six months the state of the payments, and shall regulate the balance.

Payments. Arrears.

The Bons of the Treasury paid shall constitute the Payments; those which shall not yet have been presented to the Treasury of France, shall enter into the account of the subsequent balance; those also which shall have fallen due, been presented, and not paid, shall constitute the arrear, and the sum of Inscriptions to be applied, at the market price of the day, to cover the deficit. Bons unpaid to be given up to French Commissioners and paid over to Allied Commissioners.

As soon as that operation shall have taken place, the Bons unpaid shall be given up to the French Commissioners, and the Mixed Commission shall order the Treasurers to pay over the sum so determined upon, and the Treasurers shall be authorised and obliged to pay it over to the Commissioners of the Allied Powers, who shall dispose of it as they shall think proper.

Full amount of Inscriptions to be always in hands of Treasurers.

ART. XII. France engages to replace immediately in the hands of the Treasurers, an amount of Inscriptions equal to that which may have been made use of, according to the foregoing Article, in order that the Fund stipulated in Article VIII may be always kept at its full amount.

Interest on Bons au Porteur not Paid when Presented. ART. XIII. France shall pay an interest of 5 per cent. per annum, from the date of the Bons au Porteur falling due, upon all such Bons the payment of which may have been delayed by the act of France.

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Facilities for Payment of last 100,000,000 Francs Indemnity. ART. XIV. When the first 600,000,000 of Francs shall have been paid, the Allies in order to accelerate the entire liberation of France, will accept, should it be agreeable to the French Government, the Fund mentioned in Article VIII, at the market price of that day, to such an amount as will be equal to the remainder due of the 700,000,000. France will only have to furnish the difference, should any exist.

Facilities for Payment of last 100,000,000 Francs Indemnity.

ART. XV. Should this plan not be convenient to France, the 100,000,000 of francs which would remain due, may be discharged in the manner pointed out in Articles II, III, IV, and V; and, after the complete payment of the 700,000,000, the Inscriptions stipulated for in Article VIII shall be returned to France.

Fulfilment by France of Engagements relative to Clothing and Equipment of Allied Armies.

ART. XVI. The French Government engages to execute, independently of the Pecuniary Indemnity stipulated by the present Convention, all the Engagements stipulated for in the Special Conventions concluded with the different Powers and their CoAllies, relative to the clothing and equipment of their Armies; and engages for the exact deliverance and payment of the Bons and Mandats arising from the said Conventions, in as far as they shall not have been already discharged, at the time of the signature of the Principal Treaty, and of the present Convention.

Done at Paris, this 20th day of November, in the year of Our Lord, 1815.

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No. 42.-CONVENTION between Great Britain, Austria, Prussia, and Russia, and France, relative to the Occupation of a Military Line in France by an Allied Army. Signed at Paris, 20th November, 1815.

[This Convention was annexed to the Definitive Treaty of the same date. See Art. II].

Convention between Great Britain and France, concluded in conformity to Article V of the Principal Treaty, relative to the occupation of a Military Line in France, by an Allied Army.

1. Composition of Army of Occupation.

2. Maintenance of Army of Occupation by French Government. Daily Rations. Pay, Equipment, Clothing, &c. Amount to be paid by French Government.

3. Maintenance of Fortresses by French Government. Services required by Commander-in-Chief of Allied Troops to be executed by French Government. French Government to secure accomplishment of services required.

4. Military Line to be occupied by Allied Troops. Territories not to be occupied by Allied or French Troops. Towns to be Garrisoned by French Troops. Matériel not belonging to Fortresses to be removed by French Government. Infraction of Stipulations to be redressed by French Government. Garrisoning of Fortresses by French Troops. 5. Military Command by General-in-Chief of Allied Troops.

6. Civil Administration, &c., to remain in hands of French Government. Customs to remain in hands of French Government.

7. Prevention of Abuses of Customs Regulations.

8. Services of the Gendarmerie.

9. Evacuation by Allied Troops. Delivery of Territories and Fortresses to Allies. Commissioners to ascertain state of Places delivered to Allies. Commissioners to ascertain state of Places occupied by French Troops. Places occupied by French Troops to be delivered up to Allies. Commissioners to ascertain state of Fortresses and Military Stores, &c., contained therein. Restoration at Expiration of Temporary Occupation.

Additional Article.

Mutual Delivery of Military Deserters. Delivery of Deserters previous to Signature of Treaty.

Annex.

Tariff annexed to Convention.

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(English version.*)

Convention between Great Britain and France, concluded in conformity to Article V of the Principal Treaty (No. 40), relative to the Occupation of a Military Line in France, by an Allied Army.t

Composition of Army of Occupation.

ART. I. The composition of the Army of 150,000 men, which, in virtue of Article V of the Treaty of this day (No. 40), is to occupy a Military Line along the Frontiers of France, the force and nature of the contingents to be furnished by each Power, as well as the choice of the Generals who are to command those troops, shall be determined by the Allied Sovereigns.

Maintenance of Army of Occupation by French Government. ART. II. This Army shall be maintained by the French Government, in the manner following :—

The lodging, the fuel, and lighting, the provisions and forage, are to be furnished in kind.

Daily Rations.

It is agreed that the total amount of Daily Rations shall never exceed 200,000 for men, and 50,000 for horses, and that they shall be issued according to the tariff annexed to the present Convention.

Pay, Equipment, Clothing, &c.

With respect to the pay, the Equipment, the Clothing, and other incidental matters, the French Government will provide for such expense, by the payment of a sum of 50,000,000 of francs per annum, payable in specie from month to month, from the 1st of December of the year 1815, into the hands of the Allied Commissioners.

Amount to be paid by French Government.

But the Allied Powers, in order to concur as much as possible in every thing which can satisfy His Majesty the King of France, and relieve his subjects, consent that only 30,000,000 of francs,

* For French version, see "State Papers," vol. iii, p. 298.

+ The Stipulations of the Conventions concluded on the same day, between Austria, Prussia, and Russia, and France, upon this subject, were, verbatim the same as those of this Convention.

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on account of pay, shall be paid in the first year, on condition of the difference being made up in the subsequent years of the Occupation.

Maintenance of Fortresses by French Government.

ART. III. France engages equally to provide for the keeping up of the Fortifications, and of the buildings of the military and civil administrations, as well as for the arming and provisioning the Fortresses which, in virtue of Article V of the Treaty of this day (No. 40), are to remain as a deposit in the hands of the Allied Troops.

Services required by Commander-in-Chief of Allied Troops to be executed by French Government.

These respective services, which are to be regulated upon the principles adopted by the French administration of the War Department, shall be executed upon a demand, addressed to the French Government by the Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Troops, with whom some plan shall be agreed upon for ascertaining what may be needful, and concerting the measures necessary to remove all difficulties which may arise, and for accomplishing the object of this Stipulation, in a manner equally satisfactory to the interests of the respective Parties.

French Government to secure accomplishment of Services required.

The French Government will take such measures as it shall judge to be the most effectual, for securing the accomplishment of the different services stated in this and in the preceding Article; and will concert to that effect with the Commander-inChief of the Allied Troops.

Military Line to be occupied by Allied Troops.

ART. IV. In conformity with Article V of the Principal Treaty (No. 40), the Military Line to be occupied by the Allied Troops, shall extend along the frontiers which separate the Departments of the Pas de Calais, of the North, of the Ardennes, of the Meuse, of the Moselle, of the Lower Rhine, and of the Upper Rhine, from the interior of France.

Territories not to be occupied by Allied or French Troops. It is further agreed, that neither the Allied Troops nor the