[Boundaries.]

may exist and impede the free course of the said River Semoy, and so to settle it that in the middle of the stream of the greatest volume of water, or of the Thalweg, there shall be in the usual width of the stream an opening of 8 mètres; that the navigable arm at the mouth of the River shall be restored as it was and ought to be in conformity with the Procès-Verbal of the 29th March, 1780, and that in future no one shall be allowed to erect any Breakwater or other work of whatever nature which might restrain the passage or prevent the free use of the Semoy and the width of the stream settled at 8 mètres, as above laid down; that the Administrators shall, in consequence, be entrusted with the maintenance of the said openings and the preservation of the state of things as re-established, and lastly that the Principal Agents of the said Administrations shall be bound to report once a year, in the month of April, to their respective Prefecture or Government, on the state of the free course of the Semoy.

ARTS. XLII. to LXIX. (See Table.)

Future Claims to ceded Lands to be inadmissible.

ART. LXX. The present Treaty and the Procès-verbaux of delimitation regulating the line of Frontier between the two States, as well as the reciprocal concessions of thoroughfares which have been agreed upon, all other pretentions to the right which neighbouring Communes of the Frontier may wish to claim over the lands given over to the other State is declared to be inadmissible and annulled.

ART. LXXI. (See Table.)

Date at which exchanges are to take place.

ART. LXXII. The two States shall only reckon their right over the portions exchanged, from the 1st of July next. At that date the soldiers who shall belong to the families whose dwellings have been ceded shall be reciprocally sent home.

ART. LXXIII. Ratifications.

In testimony whereof, we have signed the present Treaty, and have affixed thereto the Seal of our Arms.

Done at Courtray, 28th March, 1820.

(L.S.) DE MAUREILLAN.

(L.S.) DE CONSTANT-REBECQUE.

[Ratibor and Rauden.]

No. 100.-TERRITORIAL CONVENTION between Hesse-Cassel and Hesse-Rothenburg, respecting Ratibor and Rauden. Signed at Cassel, 10th May, 1820.

Preamble. Reference to Treaties of 16th October, 1815, and 4th March, 1816.

1. Compensation to be made to Hesse-Rothenburg, of landed Possessions under Prussian Sovereignty.

2. Cession of Ratibor, and the Foundations of Rauden and Ratibor, to Hesse-Rothenburg.

3. Ratibor to be purchased by Hesse-Rothenburg from the owner, HesseCassel providing him with the means.

4. Amount and mode of Payment.

5. The Money and Securities to be paid over to the owner of the Domain. 6. Completion of Indemnification by grant of certain Rights and remission of a Debt.

7. Cessation of Payments due to the Landgrave according to Treaty of 22nd January, 1816.

8. The grants in fee are made to the Landgrave himself, and do not extend to his collateral relations.

9. The Landgrave declares that all his claims arising from the Treaties of 16th October, 1815, and 4th March, 1816, are hereby discharged.

10. Ratifications.

(Translation.)

Preamble. Reference to Treaties of 16th October, 1815; and 4th March, 1816.

His Royal Highness the Elector of Hesse, and His Serene Highness the Landgrave of Hesse-Rothenburg, with the intention of arranging at last the compensations stipulated for the House of Hesse-Rothenburg, in Articles XIX. to XXIV. of the Treaty of 16th October, 1815 (No. 37), between the Crown of Prussia and the Electoral House of Hesse, and secured to the House of HesseRothenburg by a Convention* of the same date with the Crown of Prussia, by which the said House acceded to the former Treaty, and also further defined in a subsequent Treaty of 4th March, 1816 (No. 51), have, under Royal Prussian mediation, now resolved to conclude a final Treaty on the subject.

Therefore, Post Director-General von Starckloff, on the part of * See Appendix.

[Ratibor and Rauden.]

His Royal Highness the Elector of Hesse, and Privy-Councillor Goessel, on the part of His Serene Highness the Landgrave of Hesse-Rothenburg, have met under the mediating direction of the Royal Prussian Councillor of Legation, von Haenlein, thereto empowered by his Government, and have agreed to the following Treaty.

ARTS. I. to X. (See Table.)

Cassel, 10th May, 1820.

LOUIS VON HAENLEIN.

GEO. WILH. VON STARCKLOFF.
CARL WILII. GOESSEL.

[Ratibor and Rauden.]

No. 101.-CONVENTION between Hesse-Cassel and HesseRothenburg, respecting Ratibor and Rauden. Signed at Cassel, 10th May, 1820.

Preamble. Reference to Treaties of 16th October, 1815, and 4th March, 1816.

1. Compensation to be made to Hesse-Rothenburg of landed Possessions under Prussian Sovereignty.

2. Cession of Ratibor, and the Foundations at Rauden and Ratibor, to Hesse-Rothenburg.

3. Ratibor to be purchased by Hesse-Rothenburg from the owner, Hesse

Cassel providing him with the means.

4. Amount of Purchase Money and mode of Payment.

5. Money and Securities to be paid over to the owner of the Property.

6. Completion of Compensation by grant of certain Rights and remission of a Debt.

7. Cessation of Payments due to the Landgrave according to Treaty of 22nd January, 1816.

8. Grants of allodial possessions are made to the Landgrave himself, and do not extend to his collateral relations.

9. The Landgrave declares that all his Claims arising from the Treaties of 16th October, 1815, and 4th March, 1816, are hereby discharged.

10. Ratifications.

(Translation.)

Preamble. Reference to Treaties of 16th October, 1815, and 4th March, 1816.

His Royal Highness the Elector of Hesse, and His Serene Highness the Landgrave of Hesse-Rothenburg, with the intention of arranging at last the compensations stipulated for the House of Hesse-Rothenburg, in Articles XIX. to XXIV. of the Treaty of 16th October, 1815 (No. 37), between the Crown of Prussia and the Electoral House of Hesse, and secured to the House of Rothenburg by a Convention* of the same date with the Crown of Prussia, by which the said House acceded to the former Treaty, and also further defined in a subsequent Treaty of 4th March, 1816 (No. 51), have, under Royal Prussian mediation, now resolved to conclude a final Treaty on the subject.

Therefore, Post Director-General von Starckloff, on the part of See Appendia.

[Ratibor and Rauden.]

the Elector of Hesse, and Privy Councillor-General Goessel, on the part of the Landgrave of Hesse-Rothenburg, have met under the mediating direction of the Royal Prussian Councillor of Legation, von Haenlein, thereto empowered by his Government, and have agreed to the following Treaty.