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possess enclaves in the territory of the other, and, particularly, the Abbeys of Kommersdorf, Sayn, Nieder-Werth, and Basselick, situated in the communes ceded by Article I, shall be comprehended in the Prussian territory, with all their property inclosed within the Prussian limits.

Renunciations.

The two Contracting Parties renounce reciprocally, in behalf of each other, all revenues, rights of suzeraineté, feudal or other rights, of whatever description, which might have belonged to one party in the territory of the other.

Property belonging to Duke and Prince of Nassau.

The utensils of the mint of Ehrenbreitstein, the furniture in the castle of Engers, and the yachts belonging to their Serene Highnesses the Duke and Prince of Nassau, are reserved to them, to be taken away in three months from the date of the ratification of the present Treaty.

Fortress of Ehrenbreitstein.*

ART. V. In order to insure and complete the fortifications and defence of the ancient Fortress of Ehrenbreitstein, situated in the territory ceded by the House of Nassau, in case it should be considered expedient to re-establish it, it is agreed that Prussia shall, in general, be at liberty to erect military works wherever it may be thought proper, at the distance of 1,500 Rhenish yards (Rheinländischen ruthen) from the Fortress, even in those communes which may remain under the sovereignty of the House of Nassau, an indemnity being, however, given to the landowners, and without prejudice to territorial relations.

Import and Export Trade on the Rhine, through Ehrenbreitstein and Vallendar.

ART. VI. In order that the cessions agreed upon in Article I may not prove detrimental to the commerce of the Duchy of Nassau, it is agreed that the import and export trade on the Rhine by roads leading to that river, through Ehrenbreitstein and Vallendar, shall not experience any obstacle in respect to the inhabitants of that Duchy, nor be subjected to any new charges.

Arrears of Revenue and Surplus of Public Chests.

ART. VII. With respect to arrears of revenues, and the surplus of the public chests, the same principles shall be acted upon as * See Vienna Congress Treaty of 9th June, 1815, Art. XXIV, § 2.

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have been adopted, and are now observed, in regard to similar objects towards His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, in those proportions of territory which have been transferred to His said Majesty by His Majesty the King of Prussia.

Debts of Ceded Territories.

ART. VIII. With regard to Debts belonging to the ceded portions of territory, it is agreed:

A. That the private Debts of the communes, parishes, bailiwicks, districts, or provinces, shall be transferred, with these communes, parishes, bailiwicks, districts, and provinces to their future possessor, and shall continue to belong to them. When the bailiwicks, districts, or provinces shall have been divided, the debts of these bailiwicks, districts, or provinces, respectively, shall be shared between the two Governments, in the proportion in which the ceded parts have hitherto contributed to the payment of interest and the reimbursement of the capital; or, if this proportion cannot be settled, in that in which these countries have in general contributed to the ordinary expenses.

B. The Debts of the public chests and chamber of finance of the Duchy of Nassau, such as their amount was ascertained to be on the 31st December, 1814, shall be divided between the two Parties, in the proportion of the net revenues which the ceded territories have annually paid into the central state chests and the chamber of finance, taking for average the five years immediately preceding 1812, adding thereto, however, the net revenue of the bailiwick of Runkel in the year 1814.

C. The State Debts, and those of the chamber of finance of the Princes of Nassau-Orange, shall be divided between the two Contracting Parties, in the proportion and according to the period already agreed upon, taking as the average the net revenues of the chamber of Nassau-Orange in the five years from 1801 to 1805, and adding to each of these years the net revenues of the Lordships of Westerburg and Schadeck, such as they were in 1814.

D. The Debts of Nassau-Saarbruck, with which the state chest of the Duchy of Nassau may yet be burdened, are not comprised in this distribution, but shall remain exclusively at the charge of the House of the Duke and Prince of Nassau.

Pensions.

ART. IX. The Pensions which have been granted for services

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rendered to a particular part of territory, or which are charged upon secularized property lying in one of those parts-in a word, all pensions which, according to the nature of their origin, belonged to any territory in particular, shall be paid by the Party possessing the property upon which they were originally assigned. The pensions granted to the army shall be paid by the Government possessing the territory where the pensioner was born.

All other pensions, which do not come under this head, shall be divided in proportion to the revenues, in the manner which has been settled for public debts.

Annuities shall be provided for in the same manner as debts, and paid, either wholly or in part, by the two Governments, according as different parts of a territory, or a whole country, are burdened with them.

Local Functionaries and Persons in Office to remain in Ceded Territories. Pensions if allowed to Retire.

ART. X. The Local Functionaries and other persons in office shall go with the territories ceded in the divided bailiwicks; the Government to whom the place of their actual residence may pass shall accept their services.

All central and provincial functionaries employed in the administrations of Wiesbaden, Weilburg, Dietz, and Dillenburg, shall either continue with, or be transferred to the House of Nassau. Prussia shall take charge of those of Ehrenbreitstein.

The central functionaries who cannot continue in the service of either of the two Governments, or who shall be allowed to retire, by either Party, in three months from the date of the present Convention, shall receive the pensions or superannuations fixed by the Edict of the Duke and Prince of Nassau, of the 3rd and 6th December, 1811.

These pensions shall be paid by the two Governments, according to the rate agreed upon with respect to debts.

No public officer who is to be provided for by either Government, shall be placed upon a less favourable footing than that fixed in the said Edict.

Military Persons to return to their Native Country after the Campaign. Officers may remain in Service of Ceded Country.

ART. XI. All military persons, natives of the territories reciprocally ceded, not holding the rank of an officer, shall, after the conclusion of the approaching campaign, be sent to the military

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authorities of the Government to whom the place of their nativity shall belong until that period they shall continue in the service in which they are at present.

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Officers shall not be prevented by the Government to whom the place of their nativity shall remain or be transferred, from having the option of continuing in the service of the other Government.

Condemned and Insane Persons to be sent to their Native Country.

ART. XII. Persons condemned to prisons or houses of correction, and insane persons confined in hospitals, shall be sent to the respective Governments to whom the places of their nativity belong.

Archives of Ceded Territories.

ART. XIII. The Archives and collections of papers shall be given up, according to the partition of the territories, and each Government shall be put in possession of the deeds and instruments which relate to that portion which is ceded to it.

Engagements of Prussia relative to Post Offices of Taxis.

ART. XIV. Prussia undertakes to fulfil the engagements entered into by the Ducal House of Nassau, relative to the Post of Taxis, as far as these engagements attach to those parts of the territory which are ceded to that Power.

Military Road from Giessen to Ehrenbreitstein.

ART. XV. The high road from Giessen to Ehrenbreitstein, which crosses the country of Nassau, shall be made a military road for Prussia, to establish a communication between Erfurth and Coblentz. Whatever has been agreed upon with respect to the Military Roads belonging to Prussia, which pass through the states of the King of Hanover and the Elector of Hesse, shall be applicable to the said road from Giessen to Ehrenbreitstein.

Appointment of Commissioners for the Settlement of Debts,

Pensions, &c.

ART. XVI. In order to settle definitively all such points as require ulterior arrangement, especially such as relate to Debts, Pensions, Public Functionaries, and other persons in office, the two Governments shall appoint Commissioners, immediately after the ratifications of the present Treaty, who shall assemble at Wiesbaden, for the purpose of settling all such arrangements with as

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little delay as possible. They shall be empowered to take such measures as may be necessary, in order that the payment of the interest of Public Debts and that of Pensions may not experience any interruption, that the public credit may not be shaken, and that the business of the public offices may be conducted as heretofore. Nassau to fulfil Engagements made by Prussia with the Netherlands relative to mutual Cessions of Territory, belonging to House of Nassau-Orange.

ART. XVII. As the Convention concluded the 31st May between their Majesties the King of Prussia and the King of the Netherlands, relative to mutual Cessions of territory (No. 22), contains an Article worded as follows:

"A Commission shall be immediately appointed by His Majesty the King of Prussia and His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, to settle whatever relates to the cession of those possessions of the House of Nassau which belong to His Majesty, with regard to records, debts, excesses of the public chests, and other subjects of this nature.

"That part of the records which does not concern the ceded provinces, but only the House of Orange, and libraries, collections of maps, and all other objects of the same description, belonging to His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, shall be retained by him as private and personal property, and shall be immediately restored to His Majesty. A part of the said possessions being exchanged against other possessions of the Duke and Prince of Nassau, His Majesty the King of Prussia engages, and His Majesty the King of the Netherlands consents, that the engagement stipulated in the present Article shall be transferred to their Serene Highnesses the Duke and Prince of Nassau with respect to those possessions which are to be united to their States."*

Their Serene Highnesses the Duke and Prince of Nassau engage to fulfil, in the name and place of His Majesty the King of Prussia, the engagements he has contracted on their account, as far as these engagements concern the territories and portions of territory belonging to the House of Nassau-Orange, which, by the present Treaty, are ceded to them.

Ratifications.

ART. XVIII. The Ratifications of this Convention shall be exchanged in four weeks, or sooner, if possible.

* See Treaty between Prussia and Nassau, of 31st May, 1815, Art. XVII.