[Vienna Congress Treaty.]

Strelitz and the Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, each a Territory comprising 10,000 inhabitants; and the Count of Pappenheim a Territory comprising 9,000 inhabitants.*

The territory of the Count of Pappenheim shall be under the Sovereignty of His Prussian Majesty.

Future Arrangements relative to these Territories.

ART. L.† The acquisitions assigned by the preceding Article to the Dukes of Saxe-Coburg, Oldenburg, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and the Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, not being contiguous to their respective States, their Majesties the Emperor of Austria, the Emperor of all the Russias, and the Kings of Great Britain and Prussia, promise to employ their good offices, at the close of the present war, or as soon as circumstances shall permit, in order to procure for the said Princes, either by exchanges or any other arrangements, the advantages that they are disposed to insure to them; and that the administration of the said districts may be rendered less complicated, it is agreed that they shall be provisionally under the Prussian administration for the benefit of the new proprietors.

Territory and Possessions on the Banks of the Rhine ceded to

Austria.t

ART. LI. All the territories and possessions, as well on the left bank of the Rhine, in the old Departments of the Sarre and Mont-Tonnerre, as in the former Departments of Fulda and Frankfort, or inclosed in the adjacent countries, placed at the disposal of the Allied Powers by the Treaty of Paris of 30th May, 1814 (No. 1), and not disposed of by other Articles of the present Treaty, shall pass in full Sovereignty and property, under the Government of His Majesty the Emperor of Austria.§

Principality of Isenburg given to Austria.

ART. LII. The Principality of Isenburg|| is placed under the * By the Treaty between Prussia and Saxe-Coburg of 31st May, 1834, Lichtenberg was ceded to Prussia.

+ See Treaty between Prussia and Mecklenburg-Strelitz of 18th Sept., 1816. See Definitive Treaty between Great Britain, &c., and France of 20th November, 1815, Art. VI; and Convention between Austria and Prussia of 1st July, 1816.

§ See Art. XXXVII; Protocol between the 4 Powers of 3rd November, 1815; and Treaties of 22nd September and 16th October, 1816.

This Principality was ceded by Austria to Hesse-Darmstadt by the Treaty of 20th July, 1819.

[Vienna Congress Treaty.]

Sovereignty of His Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty, and shall belong to him, under such limitations as the Federative Constitution of Germany shall regulate for the Mediatised States.

Germanic Confederation.*

ART. LIII. The Sovereign Princes and Free Towns of Germany, under which denomination, for the present purpose, are comprehended their Majesties the Emperor of Austria, the Kings of Prussia, of Denmark, and of the Netherlands; that is to say :The Emperor of Austria and the King of Prussia, for all their possessions which anciently belonged to the German Empire;

The King of Denmark, for the Duchy of Holstein;

And the King of the Netherlands, for the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg;

establish among themselves a perpetual Confederation, which shall be called "The Germanic Confederation."

Germanic Confederation. Object of the Confederation.

ART. LIV. The object of this Confederation is the maintenance of the external and internal safety of Germany, and of the Independence and Inviolability of the Confederated States.

Germanic Confederation. Equality of the Members.

ART. LV. The Members of the Confederation, as such, are equal with regard to their rights; and they all equally engage to maintain the Act which constitutes their union.

Germanic Confederation. Federative Diet.

ART. LVI. The affairs of the Confederation shall be confided to a Federative Diet, in which all the Members shall vote by their Plenipotentiaries, either individually or collectively, in the following manner, without prejudice to their rank :—

See also Protocol between 4 Powers of 3rd November, 1815, and Final Act of 15th May, 1820. In June, 1866, War ensued between Prussia and Italy on the one side, and Austria on the other. On the 23rd August, 1866, a Treaty of Peace was signed at Prague, by Art. IV of which Austria acknowledged that the Germanic Confederation was dissolved; and on the 14th June, 1867, the Constitution of the North German Confederation was promulgated. On the 19th July, 1870, War was formally declared by France against Prussia, the other States of Germany subsequently taking part in this war. On the 16th April, 1871, a new Constitution for the German Empire was promulgated.

Germanic Confederation.* Presidency of Austria at Diet. ART. LVII. Austria shall preside at the Federative Diet. Each State of the Confederation has the right of making propositions, and the presiding State shall bring them under deliberation within a definite time.

Germanic Confederation.* Composition of the General Assembly.†

ART. LVIII. Whenever fundamental laws are to be enacted, changes made in the fundamental laws of the Confederation, measures adopted relative to the Federative Act itself, and organic institutions or other arrangements made for the common interest, the Diet shall form itself into a General Assembly, and, in that case, the distribution of votes shall be as follows, calculated according to the respective extent of the individual States:Austriat shall have

1871.

4 Votes.

Altered by subsequent Constitutions of 1th June, 1867, and 16th April,

Austria consented to be excluded from the New Organisation of Germany by her Treaty with Prussia, signed at Prague, 23rd August, 1866.

Grand Duchy of Hesse [Hesse-Darmstadt] 3

Certain districts belonging to Bavaria were ceded to Prussia by the Treaty of 22nd August, 1866.

+ Annexed to Prussia by Decree dated 20th September, 1866. The King of Hanover protested against this annexation, on the 23rd September, 1866.

Certain districts belonging to the Grand Duchy of Hesse were ceded to Prussia by the Treaty of 3rd September, 1866.

§ In January, 1864, war broke out between Austria, Prussia, and Denmark; and by the Treaty of Peace signed at Vienna on the 30th October, 1864, certain Rights over the Duchies of Holstein and Schleswig were secured to Austria. In June, 1866, war ensued between Prussia and Italy against Austria, and by the Treaty of Peace, signed at Prague on the 23rd August, 1866, the Duchies of Holstein and Schleswig were annexed to Prussia, "on the condition that the Populations of the northern districts of Schleswig should be ceded to Denmark, if, by free vote, they expressed a wish to be united to Denmark." By the Law of 24th December, 1866, those Duchies were united with the Prussian Monarchy.

Became extinct on the death of the Duke of Anhalt-Bernburg on the 19th August, 1863, when all the territories of Anhalt were united under one head as the Duchy of Anhalt.

Became extinct on the death of the Duke of Anhalt-Köthen, 23rd November, 1847, when its territories were united to Anhalt-Dessau by Patent of 22nd May, 1853.

Reusst (Younger Branch) [Reuss Schleitz] 1

The Diet in deliberating on the organic laws of the Confederation, shall consider whether any collective votes ought to be granted to the ancient Mediatised States of the Empire.

Germanic Confederation. Arrangements relating to the Diet. ART. LIX. The question, whether a subject is to be discussed by the General Assembly, conformably to the principles above established, shall be decided in the Ordinary Assembly by a majority of votes. The same Assembly shall prepare the drafts of resolutions which are to be proposed to the General Assembly, and shall furnish the latter with all the necessary information, either for adopting or rejecting them.

The plurality of votes shall regulate the decisions, both in the Ordinary and General Assemblies, with this difference, however, that in the Ordinary Assembly, an absolute majority shall be deemed sufficient, while, in the other, two-thirds of the votes shall be necessary to form the majority.

When the votes are even in the Ordinary Assembly, the President shall have the casting vote; but when the Assembly is to deliberate on the acceptance or change of any of the fundamental laws, upon organic institutions, upon individual rights, or upon

*The Administration of the Principalities of Waldeck and Pyrmont was transferred to Prussia by the Treaty of 18th July, 1867.

† Annexed to Prussia by Decree of 20th September, 1866, and Patent of 3rd October, 1866.

The Constitution of the North German Confederation of 14th June, 1867, was officially published as Law by the Senate of Hamburgh, to take effect from the 1st July, 1867.