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[2nd Peace of Paris. French Pecuniary Indemnity.]

Issue of Bons au Porteur in Coupures or Bills.

ART. V. No single Bon au Porteur shall be delivered for the sum due each day, but the sum so due shall be divided into several Coupures or Bills, of 1,000, 2,000, 5,000, 10,000, and 20,000 francs, the which sums added together, will amount to the sum total of the payment due for each day.

Limit to amount of Bons au Porteur.

ART. VI. The Allied Powers, convinced that it is as much their interest as that of France, that too considerable a sum of Bons au Porteur should not be issued at once, agree that there never shall be in circulation Bons for more than 50,000,000 of francs at a time.

Non-payment of Interest.

ART. VII. No Interest shall be paid by France for the delay of 5 years, which the Allied Powers allow to her for the payment of the 700,000,000 of francs.

Guarantee to be made over by France to Allied Powers.

ART. VIII. On the 1st of January, 1816, there shall be made over by France to the Allied Powers, as a Guarantee for the regularity of the payments, a Fund of Interest inscribed in the Grand Livre of the Public Debt of France, of 7,000,000 of francs, on a capital of 140,000,000. This Fund of Interest shall be used to make good, if there should be need of it, the deficiencies in the Acceptances of the French Government, and to render the payments equal, at the end of every six months, to the Bons au Porteur which shall have fallen due, as shall be hereafter detailed.

Persons in whose Name the Fund of Interest is to be Inscribed.

ART. IX. This Fund of Interest shall be inscribed in the name of such persons as the Allied Powers shall point out; but these persons cannot be the holders of the Inscriptions, except in the case provided for in Article XI ensuing.

Right of Allies to transfer Inscriptions in other Names.

The Allied Powers further reserve to themselves the right to transfer the Inscriptions to other names, as often as they shall judge necessary.

[2nd Peace of Paris. French Pecuniary Indemnity.]

Deposit of Inscriptions.

ART. X. The deposit of these Inscriptions shall be confined to one Treasurer named by the Allied Powers, and to another named by the French Government.

Appointment of Mixed Commission.

ART. XI. There shall be a Mixed Commission, composed of an equal number on both sides, of Allied and French Commissioners, who shall examine every six months the state of the payments, and shall regulate the balance.

Payments. Arrears.

The Bons of the Treasury paid shall constitute the Payments; those which shall not yet have been presented to the Treasury of France, shall enter into the account of the subsequent balance; those also which shall have fallen due, been presented, and not paid, shall constitute the arrear, and the sum of Inscriptions to be applied, at the market price of the day, to cover the deficit.

Bons unpaid to be given up to French Commissioners and paid over to Allied Commissioners.

As soon as that operation shall have taken place, the Bons unpaid shall be given up to the French Commissioners, and the Mixed Commission shall order the Treasurers to pay over the sum so determined upon, and the Treasurers shall be authorised and obliged to pay it over to the Commissioners of the Allied Powers, who shall dispose of it as they shall think proper.

Full amount of Inscriptions to be always in hands of Treasurers.

ART. XII. France engages to replace immediately in the hands of the Treasurers, an amount of Inscriptions equal to that which may have been made use of, according to the foregoing Article, in order that the Fund stipulated in Article VIII may be always kept at its full amount.

Interest on Bons au Porteur not Paid when Presented. ART. XIII. France shall pay an interest of 5 per cent. per annum, from the date of the Bons au Porteur falling due, upon all such Bons the payment of which may have been delayed by the act of France.

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Facilities for Payment of last 100,000,000 Francs Indemnity. ART. XIV. When the first 600,000,000 of Francs shall have been paid, the Allies in order to accelerate the entire liberation of France, will accept, should it be agreeable to the French Government, the Fund mentioned in Article VIII, at the market price of that day, to such an amount as will be equal to the remainder due of the 700,000,000. France will only have to furnish the difference, should any exist.

Facilities for Payment of last 100,000,000 Francs Indemnity.

ART. XV. Should this plan not be convenient to France, the 100,000,000 of francs which would remain due, may be discharged in the manner pointed out in Articles II, III, IV, and V; and, after the complete payment of the 700,000,000, the Inscriptions stipulated for in Article VIII shall be returned to France.

Fulfilment by France of Engagements relative to Clothing and Equipment of Allied Armies.

ART. XVI. The French Government engages to execute, independently of the Pecuniary Indemnity stipulated by the present Convention, all the Engagements stipulated for in the Special Conventions concluded with the different Powers and their CoAllies, relative to the clothing and equipment of their Armies; and engages for the exact deliverance and payment of the Bons and Mandats arising from the said Conventions, in as far as they shall not have been already discharged, at the time of the signature of the Principal Treaty, and of the present Convention.

Done at Paris, this 20th day of November, in the year of Our Lord, 1815.

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No. 42.-CONVENTION between Great Britain, Austria, Prussia, and Russia, and France, relative to the Occupation of a Military Line in France by an Allied Army. Signed at Paris, 20th November, 1815.

[This Convention was annexed to the Definitive Treaty of the same date. See Art. II].

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Convention between Great Britain and France, concluded in conformity to Article V of the Principal Treaty, relative to the occupation of a Military Line in France, by an Allied Army.

1. Composition of Army of Occupation.

2. Maintenance of Army of Occupation by French Government. Daily Rations. Pay, Equipment, Clothing, &c. Amount to be paid by French Government.

3. Maintenance of Fortresses by French Government. Services required by Commander-in-Chief of Allied Troops to be executed by French Government. French Government to secure accomplishment of services required.

4. Military Line to be occupied by Allied Troops. Territories not to be occupied by Allied or French Troops. Towns to be Garrisoned by French Troops. Matériel not belonging to Fortresses to be removed by French Government. Infraction of Stipulations to be redressed by French Government. Garrisoning of Fortresses by French Troops. 5. Military Command by General-in-Chief of Allied Troops.

6. Civil Administration, &c., to remain in hands of French Government. Customs to remain in hands of French Government.

7. Prevention of Abuses of Customs Regulations.

8. Services of the Gendarmerie.

9. Evacuation by Allied Troops. Delivery of Territories and Fortresses to Allies. Commissioners to ascertain state of Places delivered to Allies. Commissioners to ascertain state of Places occupied by French Troops. Places occupied by French Troops to be delivered up to Allies. Commissioners to ascertain state of Fortresses and Military Stores, &c., contained therein. Restoration at Expiration of Temporary Occupation.

Additional Article.

Mutual Delivery of Military Deserters. Delivery of Deserters previous to Signature of Treaty.

Annex.

Tariff annexed to Convention.

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Convention between Great Britain and France, concluded in conformity to Article V of the Principal Treaty (No. 40), relative to the Occupation of a Military Line in France, by an Allied Army.t

Composition of Army of Occupation.

ART. I. The composition of the Army of 150,000 men, which, in virtue of Article V of the Treaty of this day (No. 40), is to occupy a Military Line along the Frontiers of France, the force and nature of the contingents to be furnished by each Power, as well as the choice of the Generals who are to command those troops, shall be determined by the Allied Sovereigns.

Maintenance of Army of Occupation by French Government. ART. II. This Army shall be maintained by the French Government, in the manner following :—

The lodging, the fuel, and lighting, the provisions and forage, are to be furnished in kind.

Daily Rations.

It is agreed that the total amount of Daily Rations shall never exceed 200,000 for men, and 50,000 for horses, and that they shall be issued according to the tariff annexed to the present Convention.

Pay, Equipment, Clothing, &c.

With respect to the pay, the Equipment, the Clothing, and other incidental matters, the French Government will provide for such expense, by the payment of a sum of 50,000,000 of francs per annum, payable in specie from month to month, from the 1st of December of the year 1815, into the hands of the Allied Commissioners.

Amount to be paid by French Government.

But the Allied Powers, in order to concur as much as possible in every thing which can satisfy His Majesty the King of France, and relieve his subjects, consent that only 30,000,000 of francs,

* For French version, see "State Papers," vol. iii, p. 298.

The Stipulations of the Conventions concluded on the same day, between Austria, Prussia, and Russia, and France, upon this subject, were, verbatim the same as those of this Convention.

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