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be solely applied to maintaining the rivers and canals in question, in a navigable state. This Duty, once approved of by the two Courts, shall be changed only by common consent. The same rule shall be observed with regard to the Boards which shall regulate the collection of the said Duty.

If, however, either of the two Contracting Powers should, at his own expense, establish a new Canal, the subjects of His Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias shall never be subjected to higher duties on navigation than those of His Majesty the Emperor of Austria.

In this respect each party shall be considered on a perfect equality.

Duration of Commission.

ART. XXVII. The Commissioners who shall be charged with the arrangements determined in the above Articles, shall be named without delay. Their labours shall be finished, examined and approved, within six months at the latest, dating from the day of the ratification of the present Treaty.

Liberty of Transit between Brody and Odessa.

ART. XXVIII. The two High Contracting Parties, with the view of giving greater scope to the commercial relations, especially between Brody and Odessa, and vice versa, have agreed to grant the most perfect liberty in favour of the transit of merchandize, throughout all parts of ancient Poland. The duties to be collected on this account shall be as moderate as possible, and such as are levied on the merchants, or subjects of the most favoured nations.

Commissioners to regulate Tariffs.

ART. XXIX. With the view also of encouraging the import and export trade between the said provinces which constituted the ancient kingdom of Poland, it has been mutually agreed that the two Courts shall name Commissioners, who are to be charged with examining the Regulations and Tariffs now in force, to present plans, tending to regulate whatever is relative to this commerce, and especially to prevent all kinds of abuse, or undue interference on the part of the customs.

Payment by Russia to Austria on account of Ancient Polish Debt. ART. XXX. His Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty having issued from his general fund of State debts (universal Staatsschulden * See Vienna Congress Treaty of 9th June, 1815, Art. XIV.

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Cassa) bonds for a sum equal to the quota of the Old Debts of the King and the Republic of Poland, with which he had been burthened, in consequence of the Convention of the 15th (26th) January, 1797, and as these bonds are henceforth to remain at his charge, with all the arrears of, and present interest, it is agreed between the High Contracting Parties, that the Government of the Duchy of Warsaw, under the guarantee of His Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, shall be bound, on this account, to make good to the Court of Vienna, by way of a settlement in full, the sum of four millions of Polish florins.

Renunciation by Austria of all other Loans and Debts.

ART. XXXI. On the other hand, His Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty fully renounces every other pretension relative to Loans and Debts, of whatsoever nature they may be, which have been or which might be either assigned to, mortgaged upon, or registered against the ceded territory.

Mode of Payment on account of Ancient Polish Debt.

ART. XXXII. The four millions of Polish florins, stipulated in Article XXX, as a settlement in full on the part of the Government of the Duchy of Warsaw, shall be paid by that Government to the Austrian Imperial Treasury, in specie, and in eight equal annual instalments of 500,000 Polish florins each; the first of these annual payments shall become due the 12th (24th) June, 1816, and the last on the same day in 1824. Having, however, taken into consideration the actual state of affairs, and the new exertions which circumstances may require, the High Contracting Parties have agreed, that if peace is not re-established at the precise time of the first payment becoming due, such first payment is to be deferred, and consequently the others progressively, so that the first payment shall take place six months after the ratification of the Definitive Treaty of Peace.

Austria to provide for One-Ninth part of New Debts of Duchy of Warsaw.

ART. XXXIII. With respect to the New Debts, which bear date since the erection of the Duchy of Warsaw, His Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty undertakes to provide for them, in the proportion of one-ninth part; it being understood that the Court of Vienna shall participate in the interest resulting from their liquidation, in the same proportion.

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Appointment of Commission to Regulate the Balances due by Foreign States, to the Accounts of Respective Claims of Contracting Parties, and the Claims of Subjects against their Governments.

ART. XXXIV. Immediately after the signature of the present Treaty, a Commission shall be named, which shall assemble at Warsaw. It shall be composed of a proper number of Commissioners and assistants: its object shall be:

1. To prepare an exact Balance of what is due by Foreign Governments.

2. To regulate, reciprocally, between the Contracting Parties, the Accounts of their respective Claims.

3. To settle the Claims of Subjects against their Governments. In short, to adjust whatever relates to subjects of this nature.

Appointment of Committee for the Restitution of all Securities.

ART. XXXV. As soon as the Commission mentioned in the preceding Article shall have entered upon its duties, it shall appoint a committee, for the purpose of proceeding immediatelyto the necessary arrangement for the restitution of all Securities,, whether consisting of money, or of deeds and documents, which the subjects of one of the Contracting Parties may have given, and which may be found in the States of the other. The same rule shall be observed in all judiciary depôts which may have been transferred from one province to the other. They shall be restored to the jurisdictions of the governments to which they belong.

Restitution of Documents, Plans, Maps, or Deeds. Certified Copies of all Documents of Common Interest.

ART. XXXVI. All Documents, Plans, Maps, or Deeds whatever, which may be found in the Archives of either of the Contracting Parties, shall be mutually restored to the power whose territory they concern.

If a document of this kind be of common interest, the party who is in possession of it shall keep it, but a certified and legalised copy shall be given to the other.

Delivery of Acts of Government, Mortgage Books, and Deeds.

ART. XXXVII. The Acts of Administration shall be separated; each of the Contracting Parties shall receive the part which concerns his States.

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The same rule shall be observed with regard to Mortgage Books and Deeds. In the case provided for in the preceding Article, a legalised copy shall be given.

Appointment of Commission to Construct Map of New Frontier.

ART. XXXVIII. A Military and Civil Commission shall be immediately appointed, to construct an exact Map of the new frontier, annexing the topographical description thereto, to place the boundary posts, and describe the angles of its situation, so that in no case the least doubt, dispute, or difficulty may arise, if, in the course of time, it should be wished to replace a boundary mark, destroyed by any accident.

Continuation of Contract for Salt.

ART. XXXIX. It is agreed between the two High Contracting Parties, that the contract for the purchase of 500,000 quintals of Salt, shall be mutually binding, for the term of five years; at the end of which period it may be renewed, on the conditions which shall then be agreed upon.

Delivery of Provinces to Austria.

ART. XL. Immediately after the ratification of the present Treaty, the necessary orders shall be sent to the commanders of troops, and the competent authorities, for the evacuation of the Provinces which are restored to His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, and for the restitution of the country, to Commissioners, who shall be appointed for this purpose; and this evacuation shall be effected so that it may be completed in six weeks, dating from the day of the exchange of the Ratifications of the present Treaty.

Ratifications.

ART. XLI. The present Treaty shall be ratified, and the Ratifications exchanged in six days.

In faith of which the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed

it, and have affixed thereunto the seals of their arms.

Done at Vienna, the 21st April of the year of Our Lord 1815.

3rd May

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LE COMTE DE RASOUMOFFSKY.

(L.S.)

LE PRINCE DE METTERNICH.

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No. 13.-TREATY between Prussia and Russia, relating to Poland. Signed at Vienna, 21st April, 1815.

3rd May '

[This Treaty formed Annex II to the Vienna Congress Treaty of 9th June, 1815, No. 27.]

Preamble. Peace of Europe and tranquillity of Nations. Definitive Arrangement respecting Duchy of Warsaw. Equilibrium and Balance of Power established at Congress of Vienna.

1. Part of Duchy of Warsaw to be possessed by Prussia as Grand Duchy of Posen.

2. Cracow declared to be a Free, Neutral, and Independent Town under the Protection of Austria, Prussia, and Russia.

3. Part of Duchy of Warsaw to be united to Russia. Title of King of Poland to be borne by the Czar. Poles to receive Representative and National Institutions.

4. Emigration. Liberty to Inhabitants of separate Countries to dispose of their Property and withdraw.

5. General Amnesty in Poland.

6. Sequestrations to be removed. Prosecutions to be Annulled.

7. Exceptions to the preceding Article on Confiscations.

8. Recognition of Right of Mixed Subjects to Property.

9. Choice of Domicile to be made within a year.

10. Guardians to make Declarations for Minors.

11. Neglect of Declaration within prescribed time.

12. Power of Mixed Proprietor to Change Domicile within Eight Years. 13. Right of Mixed Proprietor to retain Property in States of a Sovereign

17. Freedom of Transit of Mixed Proprietors.

18. Treatment of Proprietors of Estates divided by Frontier.

19. Privileges of Shepherds and Drovers.

20. Decisions in Cases of Difference.

21. Sovereignty of Mills, Manufactories, or Foundries in States bordering on Rivers.

22. Freedom of Navigation of Rivers and Canals of Ancient Poland, 1772, and of communication by them with Port of Königsberg.

By a Russian Manifesto of 4th February, 1832, the Kingdom of Poland was declared to be perpetually united to the Russian Empire, and to form an integral part thereof. The British Government protested against this Manifesto on the 3rd July, 1832, as being an infraction of the Vienna Congress Treaty.