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[Constitution of Germany.]

liable to pay to the foreign Power any higher tax or duty than those paid by its own subjects.

B. 1. That of emigrating from one Confederated State to another, provided it be proved that the State in which they settle receive them as subjects.

2. That of entering into the civil or military service of any of the Confederated States, it being, however, understood, that the exercise of either of these rights does not release them from being liable to military service in their own country. And in order that the difference of the laws with regard to their liability to military service may not be attended with any partial advantages or injurious consequences to any particular State, the Diet of the Confederation shall consider of the means of establishing regulations upon this subject, as impartial as possible.

C. The exemption from all export duty, drawback, or other impost of that description, in case they remove their property from one Confederated State to another, unless it should be otherwise stipulated by particular Conventions concluded between them.

D. Upon its first meeting, the Diet shall frame laws for the liberty of the press in general, and shall adopt such measures as may secure authors and editors against the piracy of their works.

Commerce and Navigation from one State to another.

ART. XIX. The Confederated States reserve to themselves the right of deliberating, at the first meeting of the Diet at Frankfort, upon the manner of regulating the commerce and navigation from one State to another, according to the principles adopted by the Congress of Vienna.

Ratifications.

ART. XX. The present Act shall be ratified by all the Contracting Parties, and the ratifications shall, in six weeks, or sooner, if possible, be addressed to the Royal and State Chancery of His Majesty the Emperor of Austria at Vienna, and deposited in the Archives of the Confederation on the opening of the Diet.

In faith of which all the Plenipotentiaries have signed the present instrument, and have affixed thereunto the Seal of their Arms.

Done at Vienna, the 8th June, 1815.

(L.S.) PRINCE METTERNICH.
(L.S.) BARON WESSENBERG.

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(L.S.) CHARLES PRINCE HARDENBERG. (L.S.) WILLIAM BARON HUMBOLDT.

(L.S.) CH. COUNT BERNSTORFF.

(L.S.) J. COUNT BERNSTORFF.

(L.S.) A. COUNT RECHBERG AND ROTHENLOWEN.

(L.S.) H. A. BARON GLOBIG.

(L.S.) F. C. BARON GAGERN.

(L.S.) E. COUNT MUNSTER.

(L.S.) E. COUNT HARDENBERG.

(L.S.) COUNT KELLER, acting at the same time for Brunswick.

(L.S.) G. F. BARON LEPEL.

(L.S.) J. BARON TURCKHEIM.

(L.S.) BARON MINCKWITZ, in the place of M. de Gersdorff, Plenipotentiary of the

Grand Duke of Weimar, and of the
Dukes of Saxe-Gotha and of Saxe-
Meiningen.

(L.S.) C. L. F. BARON BAUMBACH.

(L.S.) BARON FISCHLER VON TREUBERG. (L.S.) BARON MALTZAHN.

(L.S.) LEOPOLD BARON PLESSEN.

(L.S.) BARON OERTZEN.

(L.S.) DE WOLFRAMSDORF.

(L.S.) BARON FRANCK.

(L.S.) FRANCIS ALOYSIUS KIRCHBAUER. (L.S.) F. MARSCHALL VON BIEBERSTEIN. (L.S.) D. GEORG WIESE, Plenipotentiary of the Princes Liechtenstein and Reuss.

(L.S.) DE WEISE.

(L.S.) BARON KETTELHOLDT.

(L.S.) DE BERG, acting for Waldeck and Schaumburg-Lippe.

(L.S.) HELLWING.

(L.S.) J. F. HACH.

(L.S.) DANZ.

(L.S.) SMIDT.

(L.S.) GRIES.

[Vienna Congress Treaty.]

No. 27.-GENERAL TREATY between Great Britain, Austria, France, Portugal, Prussia, Russia, Spain,* and Sweden. Signed at Vienna, 9th June, 1815.†

[This Treaty was signed in the French language (see Art. CXX), and a copy of it, in that language, will be found in State Papers," vol. ii, p. 3.]

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1. Poland. Dispositions relating to the Ancient Duchy of Warsaw.

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Boundaries of the Grand Duchy of Posen.

Salt Mines of Wieliczka.

Frontier between Galicia and the Russian Empire.

Restitution of Districts separated from Eastern Galicia.

6. Cracow declared a Free City.

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Boundaries of the Territory of Cracow.

Privileges granted to Podgorze. Galicia.

Neutrality of Cracow.

Constitution, Academy, and Bishopric of Cracow.
General Amnesty in Poland.

Sequestrations removed; prosecutions annulled.
Exceptions to preceding Article.

Free Navigation of the Rivers in Poland.

15. Cessions made by Saxony to Prussia.

16. Duchy of Saxony. Titles to be borne by the Kings of Prussia and Saxony. 17. Prussia. Guarantee of the ceded Countries designated in Art. XV. 18. Prussia and Saxony. Renunciation by the Emperor of Austria of Rights of Sovereignty over Lusatia.

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Reciprocal Renunciation of Feudal Rights.

Reciprocal Freedom of Emigration.

Property of Religious Establishments.
General Amnesty in Saxony.

23. Designation of the Province of which Prussia resumes possession.
24. Prussian Possessions on this side (en deça) of the Rhine.

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Possessions on the left bank of the Rhine. Grand Duchy of the
Lower Rhine. Cologne.

26. Hanover. Kingdom of Hanover. Late Electorate of Brunswick-Luneburg.
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Cessions made by Prussia to Hanover.

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28. Renunciation by Prussia of the Chapter of St. Peter in the Borough of Noerten.

29. Cessions made by Hanover to Prussia.

*Spain did not sign this Treaty, but she acceded to it by an Act of Acces sion dated 7th June, 1817. See also Treaty between 5 Powers and Spain, 10th June, 1817.

This Treaty was confirmed by the Treaty between the 5 Powers and France of 20th November, 1815 Art. XI.

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TABLE (continued).

30. Hanover and Prussia. Navigation and Commerce between. The Ems;

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32. Relations of the Duke de Looz-Corswaren and of the Count of Bentheim,

with the Kingdom of Hanover.

33. Cession to be made by Hanover to Oldenburg.

34. Title of Grand Duke of Oldenburg.

35. Title of Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz. 36. Title of Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar.

37. Cessions to be made by Prussia to the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar. 38. Prussia and Saxe-Weimar. Ulterior arrangements regarding these

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Cessions.

Territory to be given up immediately to
Saxe-Weimar.

40. Cession of a portion of the former Department of Fulda to Prussia.
41. Arrangements relative to the Purchasers of Domains in the Principality
of Fulda and the County of Hanau.

42. Cession of the town of Wetzlar to the King of Prussia.

43. Relations of the "Mediatised Districts" of the old Circle of Westphalia with the Prussian Monarchy.

44. Cession of the Grand Duchy of Wurtzburg, and of the Principality of Aschaffenburg to the King of Bavaria.

45. Maintenance of the Prince Primate.

46. The Free Town of Frankfort.

47. Indemnities to the Grand Duke of Hesse.

48. Reinstatement of the Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg.

49. Cession of Territory to Oldenburg, Saxe-Coburg, Mecklenburg-Strelitz Hesse-Homburg, and the Count of Pappenheim.

50. Future arrangements relative to these Territories.

51. Territories and Possessions on the banks of the Rhine ceded to Austria. 52. Principality of Isenburg given to Austria.

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Boundaries of the Kingdom of the.

67. Luxemburg. Grand Duchy of. Sovereignty of the King of the Nether

lands.

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TABLE (continued).

Luxemburg. Fortress of the Germanic Confederation.
A State of the Germanic Confederation.
Boundaries of the Grand Duchy of.

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Arrangements respecting the Duchy of Bouillon. Disputes to be settled by Arbitration.

70. Cession to Prussia of the German Possessions of the House of Nassau

Orange.

71. Family Pact of the Princes of Nassau.

72. Charges and Engagements relating to the Provinces detached from

France.

73. Basis of the Union of the Belgic Provinces.

74. Switzerland. Integrity of the 19 Cantons of.

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Union of 3 new Cantons, The Valais, Geneva, and Neufchatel.

La Vallée des Dappes.

Union of the Bishopric of Basle and the Town and Territory of Bienne, with the Canton of Berne.

An Enclave given to Neufchatel.

Rights of the Inhabitants of the Countries united with
the Canton of Berne.

Restoration of the Lordship of Razuns to the Canton of
Grisons.

Commercial and Military Communications between Town
of Geneva and Canton of Vaud. Versoy Road. Pas-
sage of Troops.

Cession by the King of Sardinia to the Canton of Geneva.
Savoy. Simplon Road. Passage of Troops. Exemption
from Transit Dues.

Reciprocal Compensations between Ancient and New
Cantons.

Disposal of the Funds placed in England by Cantons of
Zurich and Berne.

Indemnity to Proprietors of "Lauds.”

General Confirmation of the Declaration of the 20th
March, 1815, upon the Affairs of Switzerland.

Frontiers of the States of the King of. Island of Capraja.
Union of the States of Genoa with the States of the King of
Sardinia.

Title of King of Sardinia; Duke of Genoa.

Rights and Privileges of the Genoese.

Union of the Imperial Fiefs of late Ligurian Republic.
Right of Fortifying.

91. Savoy. Cession by the King of Sardinia to the Canton of Geneva.
Neutrality of Chablais, Faucigny, and Part of Savoy.

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93. Italy. Description of the Countries of which the Emperor of Austria takes possession on the side of Italy. Istria, Dalmatia, Mouths of the Cattaro, Venice, &c.

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Territories united to the Austrian Monarchy. The Valteline,
Bormio, Chiavenna, Ragusa, &c.

Austrian Frontiers in Italy.

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