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[Geneva.]

and shall be served by the same number of clergymen; and with regard to the parts dismembered, which may not be sufficiently large to constitute a parish, application shall be made to the Bishop of the diocese, in order to obtain their annexation to some other parish of the Canton of Geneva.

3. If the number of Protestants inhabiting the communes ceded by His Majesty should be less than that of the Catholics, the schoolmasters residing in those communes shall always be Catholics. No Protestant church shall be established, excepting in the town of Carrouge, which shall have one.

Two-thirds of the municipal officers shall be Catholics, and of the three individuals who fill the offices of mayor and his two assistants, two of them shall always be Catholics.

In case it should happen that an equal number of Protestants and Catholics should reside in the same commune, the municipal body shall be composed of an equal number of Protestants and Catholics, and they shall fill the office of mayor alternately; in this case, however, there must always be a Catholic schoolmaster, even where a Protestant one is already established.

It is not intended by this Article to prevent Protestants residing in a commune inhabited by Catholics, from erecting at their own expense a private chapel, for the exercise of their religion, if they desire it, or from having, also at their own expense, a Protestant schoolmaster for the private instruction of their children.

4. The funds, revenues, and the administration of religious and charitable institutions, shall remain untouched, and private individuals shall not be prevented from erecting new ones.

5. The Government shall make the same provision as the present Government for the support of the Clergy, and Places of Worship.

6. The Catholic church, now established at Geneva, shall be maintained, as at present, at the expense of the State, as the laws of the Constitution of Geneva have already deceed that a suitable establishment and provision shall be made for the officiating clergyman.

7. The Catholic communes and the parish of Geneva shall continue to form part of the diocese which is to govern the provinces of Chablais and Faucigny; unless it should be otherwise regulated by the authority of the Holy See.

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8. The Bishop shall not, under any circumstances, be disturbed in his pastoral visits.

9. The inhabitants of a ceded country shall be placed entirely upon the same footing in point of civil and political rights, with the Genevese of the city; they shall exercise these rights conjointly with them, excepting, however, the rights of property, of citizenship, or of communes.

10. Catholic children shall be received into the public schools. They shall not be instructed in religion with the Protestants, but separately; and persons of the Catholic communion shall be appointed for this purpose.

11. The communal property belonging to the new communes, shall be preserved to them, and they shall continue to administer them as hitherto, and to apply the revenues to their use.

12. The new communes shall not be liable to greater taxes than the old communes.

13. His Majesty the King of Sardinia reserves to himself the right of making known to the Helvetic Diet, and to support by means of his Diplomatic Agents accredited to it, every claim to which the non-fulfilment of the above Articles might give rise.

Delivery of Title Deeds of Landed Property, &c.

ART. IV. All title deeds of landed property, and documents concerning ceded effects, shall be given up by His Majesty the King of Sardinia, to the Canton of Geneva, as soon as possible.

Treaty of 3rd June, 1754, Confirmed; Article XIII annulled. ART. V. The Treaty concluded at Turin, on the 3rd of June, 1754, between His Majesty the King of Sardinia and the Republic of Geneva, is hereby confirmed, with regard to all those Articles which are not at variance with the present transaction; but His Majesty, wishing to give the Canton of Geneva a particular mark of his favour, consents nevertheless to annul that part of Article XIII of the above Treaty, which denied to the citizens of Geneva, who since that time have had establishments and property in Savoy, the privilege of making it their principal residence.

Conveyance of Articles of Consumption for the Canton of Geneva. ART. VI. His Majesty consents, from the same motives, to * See Appendix.

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make arrangements with the Canton of Geneva, for facilitating the conveyance from his states of articles intended for the consumption of the Town and Canton.

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ESPAGNE (SPAIN). (L.S.)

FRANCE.

P. GOMEZ LABRADOR.

(L.S.) Le PRINCE DE TALLEYRAND. (L.S.) Le DUC DE D'ALBERG.

(L.S.) Le CTE. ALEXIS DE NOAILLES.

GREAT BRITAIN. (L.S.) CLANCARTY.

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[Navigation of Rivers.]

No. 11.-REGULATIONS for the Free Navigation of Rivers. Vienna, March, 1815.

[These Regulations formed Annex XVI to the Vienna Congress Treaty of 9th June, 1815, No. 27, and were embodied in that Treaty as Articles CVIII to CXVI.]

Articles concerning the Navigation of the Rivers which, in their navigable course, separate or cross different States.

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13. Choice of Chief Inspector.

14. Appointment of Inspectors for Life. Pensions and Trial by Court of

Justice.

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21. Companies or Boatmen not to enjoy any exclusive Rights.

22. Custom Houses not to interfere with Navigation Duties.

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TABLE (continued).

23. Custom House Boats and Flags.

24. Duties on Navigation not to be farmed out.

25. No exemption or abatement of Duties admitted.

26. Neutrality in the event of War.

27. Definitive Detailed Regulations to be framed.

28. Payment of permanent Rents in Duties.

29. Pensions of Officers and Relief to Widows and Orphans. Payments by

France.

30. Pensions to Receivers of Duties.

31. Formation of Central Commission.

32. Duties of Central Commission.

Articles concerning the Navigation of the Necker, the Mayne, the Moselle, the Meuse, and the Scheldt.

1. Freedom of Navigation.

2. Storehouse and Harbour Duties on the Necker and Mayne abolished.

3. Duties on the Necker and Mayne.

4. Duties on the Moselle and Meuse. New Regulations to be framed.

5. Repair of Towing Paths.

6. Rights of Navigation on the Rhine, and on the Necker, Moselle, and

Meuse, by subjects of either State.

7. Further Regulation of the Navigation of the Scheldt.

(Translation as laid before Parliament.*)

General Arrangements.

ART. I. The Powers whose States are separated or traversed by the same navigable River, engage to regulate, by common consent, all that regards its Navigation. For this purpose they will name Commissioners, who shall assemble, at latest within six months after the termination of Congress, and who shall adopt, as the bases of their proceedings, the following principlest :

Principles.-Liberty of Navigation.

ART. II. The Navigation of the Rivers, along their whole course, referred to in the preceding Article, from the point where each of them becomes navigable, to its mouth, shall be entirely free, and shall not, in respect to Commerce, be prohibited to any one; it being, however, understood, that the Regulations established with regard to the Police of this Navigation, shall be respected; as they will be framed alike for all, and as favourable as possible to the Commerce of all Nations.

*For French version, see "State Papers," vol. ii, p. 162.
+ See Regulations of 31st March, 1831.

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