[Geneva, Savoy, Chablais, and Faucigny.] shall place the sum of 100,000 Piedmontese livres at His Majesty's disposal, which sum shall be payable at Saint Julien within six months after the signature of the present Treaty. Appointment of Boundary Commissioners. ART. XXII. Two Commissioners shall be immediately appointed, one by His Sardinian Majesty, and the other by the Swiss Confederation and the Canton of Geneva, to proceed to the afore-mentioned Delimitation, in such manner as to complete it. before the exchange of the Ratifications. The Commissioners shall draw up a Procès-Verbal of their proceedings, joining thereto a topographical Plan of the whole of the Limits, wherein the several Communes shall be described, which Plan shall be signed by them. The said document shall be signed in triplicate, and shall be annexed to the present Treaty. Former Treaties renewed. ART. XXIII. The dispositions of former Treaties, and especially of that of the 3rd of June, 1754,* which are not expressly affected by the present Treaty, are hereby confirmed. Ratifications. ART. XXIV. The present Treaty shall be ratified by His Majesty, the Swiss Confederation, and the Canton of Geneva, and the Ratifications shall be exchanged within the space of three months, or sooner if possible. Immediately after the exchange of the Ratifications, the transfer of the territories shall reciprocally take place. In testimony whereof the Plenipotentiaries have hereunto affixed their Signatures and the Seals of their Arms. Done at Turin, the 16th day of March, in the year of our Lord, 1816. (L. S.) MONTIGLIO. (L. S.) PROVANA DI COLLEGNO. (L. S.) C. PICTET DE ROCHEMONT, Councillor of State. See Appendix. [Territorial.] No. 53.-TREATY of Limits between Austria and Bavaria. Signed at Munich, 14th April, 1816. [This Treaty formed Annex No. XI. to the General Treaty of Frankfort of 20th July, 1819.] 1. Retrocessions by Bavaria to Austria. 2. Cessions by Austria to Bavaria on the Left and Right Banks of the Rhine, in exchange for Bavarian Retrocessions. Fortress of Landau. 3. Engagement of Austria to obtain for Bavaria cessions from HesseDarmstadt and Baden. 4. Indemnification by Austria to Bavaria for relinquishment of principle of contiguity. 5. Military Road between the Possessions of Bavaria on the Mayne and the Left Bank of the Rhine. 6. Portion of French contribution to be given to Bavaria. 7. Supply of Salt to Bavaria, free from all export and transit Duties. 8. Free passage and transit of Salt through Bavarian States from the Tyrol to Bregenz. 9. Navigation of Rivers. The Salza and the Saale. 10. Payment of Debts secured by Mortgages upon countries respectively ceded. Payment of Pensions, &c. 11. Sale or alienation of Domains. 12. Delivery of all Archives, Maps, Plans, and Documents. 13. Maintenance of Conventions abolishing the Succession Duties (Droit d'Aubaine). 14. Military to be placed at disposal of respective Sovereigns. Officers and Soldiers may remain in service of either State. 15. Free enjoyment by Individuals and Religious foundations of their real and personal Property. Liberty to Emigrate. 16. Possession of all ceded Places, Fortresses, Cities, and Territories. 17. Withdrawal by Bavaria of Artillery and Military Stores at Salzburg. 18. Sale by Bavaria of their Magazines of Salt, Mineral Productions, &c., or their free export. 19. Commission to settle Boundary separating the country of Salzburg from that of Berchtoldsgaben, and from the Bailiwick of Reichenhall. 20. Special Commission of Claims. 21. Commission to regulate all ancient Grants and clearing of the Forests of the Valley of the Saale. 22. Right of Bavaria to transport and float all wood cut in Valley of the Upper Saale. 23. Renunciations by Austria and Bavaria, respectively, of all Rights and Claims over ceded States, &c. 24. Portions of Territory exchanged and guaranteed to pass to new Possessors. [Territorial.] 25. Guarantee by Austria to Bavaria of the free and peaceable enjoyment and Sovereignty of all States, &c., in his possession. Courts of St. Petersburg, London, and Berlin to be invited to grant similar guarantee. 26. Ratifications. (Translation as laid before Parliament.*) In the Name of the Most Holy and Undivided Trinity. Preamble. HIS MAJESTY the Emperor of Austria, and His Majesty the King of Bavaria, equally animated with the desire of drawing closer the bonds of friendship which unite them, by fixing in a definitive manner the Boundaries and Relations of their respective States, have appointed Plenipotentiaries to concert, determine, and sign all that relates to these objects, viz. :— His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, the Sieur John Peter Theodore Baron de Wacquant-Geozelles, Chamberlain, Privy Councillor, Lieutenant-General in His Service, &c. And His Majesty the King of Bavaria, the Sieur Maximilian Comte de Montgelas, His Chamberlain, Minister of State and of Conferences, Directing Minister for the Departments of Foreign. Affairs, of Finance, and of the Interior, Minister and State Secretary of the Royal Household, &c. And the Sieur Louis Comte de Rechberg and Rothenlöwen, His Chamberlain and Privy Councillor, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to His Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty, &c. Who, after having exchanged their Full Powers, and found them in good and due form, have agreed upon the following Articles : Retrocessions by Bavaria to Austria. † ART. I. His Majesty the King of Bavaria, for Himself, His Heirs and Successors, gives back and abandons, in full Property and Sovereignty, to His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, as well as to His Heirs and Successors: The parts of Hausruckviertel and the Innviertel, in the state they were ceded by Austria in 1809. The Tyrolien Bailiwick of Vils, and the Duchy of Salzburg, in the state it was ceded by Austria in 1809. *For French version, see "State Papers," vol. vii., p. 63. † See Treaty of 20th July, 1819, Art. I. [Territorial.] Those parts of the Baliwicks of Waging, Sittmaning, Teisendorf and Laufen, situated on the left bank of the Salza and the Saal, are excepted from the present Retrocession. These districts with their appurtenances and dependencies shall continue to belong to the Crown of Bavaria, in full Property and Sovereignty. Cessions by Austria to Bavaria on the Left and Right Banks of the Rhine, in exchange for Bavarian Retrocessions. ART. II. In return for these concessions, His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, for Himself, His Heirs and Successors, gives up to His Majesty the King of Bavaria, His Heirs and Successors, in full Property and Sovereignty : A. On the Left bank of the Rhine. In the Department of Mount Tonnerre: 1st. The Arrondissements of Deux-Ponts, Kaiserlautern and Spire, excepting from the latter the Cantons of Worms and Pfeddersheim. 2nd. The Canton of Kirchen-Poland in the Arrondissement of Alzey. In the Department of the Saar :* 3rd. The Cantons of Waldmohr, Bliescastel, and Coussel: excepting from this last, certain places on the road from Saint Wendel to Baumholder, for which a compensation shall be made by a territorial arrangement to be regulated in concert with the Plenipotentiaries of the Allied Powers at Frankfort.† Fortress of Landau, &c. In the Department of the Lower Rhine: 4th. The Canton, with the City and Fortress of Landau, this last as a Fortress of the Confederation,† conformably to the arrangements of the 3rd of November, 1815 (No. 38). 5th. The Cantons of Bergzabern, Langenkandel, and every other part of the Department of the Lower Rhine, ceded by France on the left bank of the Lauter, by the Treaty of Paris of the 20th of November, 1815 (No. 40). These countries shall be possessed by His Majesty the King of Bavaria, without other charges or mortgages than those which existed during the Austrian Administration. * See Conventions between Austria and Prussia of 1st July, 1816; 30th September, 1818; 30th January, 1844; and 16th December, 1850. + See General Treaty of 20th July, 1819, Art. III. [Territorial.] B. On the right of the Rhine. 1st. The former Fuldois Bailiwicks of Hammelburg with Tulba and Salek, Brückenau with Motten, that of Weyhers,-with the exception of the villages of Melters and Hattenrodt; as well as that part of the Bailiwick of Bieberstein, which includes the villages of Batten, Brand, Dietges, Findlos, Liebhardt, Melperz, Oberbernhardt, with Steinbach, Saifferz and Thaiden; the whole of these districts to be given up in the state they were possessed by His Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty. 2nd. The Austrian Bailiwick of Redwitz enclosed (enclave) in the Bavarian States. Engagement of Austria to obtain for Bavaria cessions from HesseDarmstadt and Baden. ART. III. His Majesty the Emperor of Austria engages for Himself, in concert with His High Allies, to employ His most earnest intervention, and to use His utmost endeavours to procure for His Majesty the King of Bavaria : On the part of His Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Hesse, the pure, simple, and unlimited cession of the Bailiwicks of Alzenau, Miltenberg, Amorbach, and Heubach.* On the part of His Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Baden, a part of the Bailiwick of Wertheim, according to the arrangements made at Paris on the 3rd of November, 1815 (No. 38). Indemnification by Austria to Bavaria for relinquishment of ART. IV. The contiguity of the acquisitions made by Bavaria in exchange for the afore-mentioned retrocessions, being a stipulation of the Treaty of Ried,† His Majesty the Emperor of Austria recognizes the right of His Majesty the King of Bavaria to an indemnification on His relinquishment of the principle of contiguity. This indemnification shall be fixed at Frankfort, at the same time and in the same manner as the other Territorial Arrangements of Germany.‡ To this effect His Majesty the Emperor of Austria engages to give His Majesty the King of Bavaria a compensation, which has been agreed upon between them, until the final result of the * See Treaty between Austria, Prussia, &c., of 30th June, 1816, Art. III. Preliminary Treaty of Alliance between Austria and Bavaria of 8th October, 1813, Art. IV. See Appendix. See General Treaty, 20th July, 1819. |