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[Westphalia, Mayence, &c.]

Ratifications.

ART. XXVII. The present Treaty shall be ratified, and the Ratifications exchanged at Frankfort within the space of six weeks, or sooner if possible.

In testimony whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have hereunto affixed their Signatures and the Seals of their Arms. Done at Frankfort on the Mayne, the 30th of June, 1816. (L. S.) WESSENBERG.

(L.S.) HARNIER.

(L. S.) LE BARON DE HUMBOLDT.

(L. S.) LE BARON DE MÜNCH.

[Westphalia, Mayence, &c.]

No. 59.-TREATY between Great Britain and HesseDarmstadt. Signed at Frankfort, 30th June, 1816.

[This Treaty formed Annex III. to the General Treaty of Frankfort of 20th July, 1819.]

(Translation as laid before Parliament.*)

In the Name of the Most Holy and Undivided Trinity.

Reference to Treaties of Frankfort of 1813.

HIS MAJESTY the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland anxious to evince His entire participation in the Territorial Arrangements discussed, agreed upon, and determined by common consent, in the Conferences at Frankfort on the Mayne,t between His Plenipotentiary and the Plenipotentiaries of their Imperial and Royal Majesties the Emperor of Austria, the Emperor of Russia, His Majesty the King of Prussia, and His Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Hesse; and desiring at the same time to give a fresh proof of His friendship for His Royal Highness, by the furtherance of His wish that a Treaty should be immediately signed with His said Royal Highness, conformably to the arrangements in question; His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and His Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Hesse, have to this effect named for Plenipotentiaries, viz:

His said Majesty, the Right Honourable Richard le Poer Trench, Earl of Clancarty, Viscount Dunlo, Baron Kilconnel, Baron Trench of Garbally of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, &c.

And His Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Hesse, the Sieur Henry William Charles de Harnier, His Royal Highness's Privy Councillor, His Envoy Extraordinary at the Royal Court of Bavaria, and His Minister Plenipotentiary at the Diet of the Germanic Confederation.

And the Sieur Henry Baron de Münch of Bellinghausen, His Privy Councillor and Director of the Chamber of Finance of the Province of Hesse.

*For French version, see "State Papers," vol. vii., p. 39.
+23rd November, 1813. See Appendix.

[Westphalia, Mayence, &c.]

Who, after having exchanged their Full Powers, and found them in good and due form, have determined on and signed the following Articles:

(Articles I. to XXV., both inclusive, are literally conformable to the Treaty between Austria, Prussia, and Hesse-Darmstadt of 30th June, 1816 (No. 58).

Ratifications.

ART. XXVI. The present Treaty shall be ratified, and the Ratifications exchanged at Frankfort within the space of two months, or sooner if practicable.

In testimony whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have hereunto affixed their Hands and Seals.

Done at Frankfort on the Mayne, the 30th of June in the year of our Lord, 1816.

(L.S.) CLANCARTY.

(L.S.) HARNIER.
(L.S.) MÜNCH.

[Department of the Saar.]

No. 60.-CONVENTION between the Commissioners of Austria and Prussia, on the Subject of the Cession to Prussia of a part of the former Department of the Saar.* Signed at Worms, 1st July, 1816.

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Preamble. Reference to Vienna Congress Treaty of 9th June, 1815; to the
Protocol of 3rd November, 1815, &c. Districts of the Saar ceded by
Austria to Prussia.

1. Land Revenues to revert to Prussia.

2. Distribution of Moneys in Austria.

Districts of Ottweiler and Birkenfeld.

Central Treasury received from

3. Right of Austria to State Property unsold on the 30th April.

4. Bills of Exchange for Timber sold to be handed over to Prussian Court and accounted for to Austria.

5. Arrears of Taxes, &c., to 1st May, to belong to Austria,

6. Arrears of Revenues up to 1st May to be collected by Prussia, and accounted for to Austria.

7. Payment of Salaries, Pensions, and Maintenance of Prisoners.

8. Liquidation of Debts occasioned by the War.

9. Unpaid Claims of Contractors to be settled by the Liquidation Com

mission.

10. Officials in employ of ceded Territories to be employed by Prussian Government.

11. All Acts, Maps, Plans, and Documents to be delivered over to Prussia. 12. Commissioners of Claims to have free access to all Acts, Registers, &c., of ceded Territories.

13. Regulations relative to Cession to Prussia to remain in force.

(Translation.)

Preamble. Reference to Vienna Congress Treaty of 9th June, 1815; to the Protocol of 3rd November, 1815, &c. Districts of the Saar ceded by Austria to Prussia.

WHEREAS, according to Article VI. of the Territorial Indemnification Treaty, concluded at Paris on the 3rd November, 1815 (No. 38), between the Allied Powers, the land districts in the former Department of the Saar, which, by Article LI. of the Act of Congress (No. 27), were assigned to His Imperial Majesty, were thereby ceded to the Crown of Prussia; and whereas, on account of such Seisin, as well as with regard to the Territorial Indemnification yet to be effected, a Preliminary

*See Treaty of 20th July, 1819.

[Department of the Saar.]

Convention, embodying several general principles, has already been concluded at Frankfort on the 28th of June, by duly empowered Commissioners and Ministers-viz., for the Austrian Government, the acting Privy Counsellor Baron von Wessenburg, and for the Prussian Government, the Minister of State, Baron von Humboldt; therefore, in order that the said Cession and Seisin, and especially as regards the districts situated in the former Department of the Saar, may now be strictly fulfilled, and the necessary arrangements for duly effecting the same be made, the herein-named Commissioners, that is to say;

On the part of the Prussian Court, the President of the Royal Government at Coblentz, 1st Division, Knight of the Red Eagle, 3rd Class, Baron von Schmitz-Grollenburg, as Seisin-Commissioner;

And on the part of the Austrian Court, the Actual Counsellor and Commander of the Royal Bavarian Civil Order of Merit, Wilhelm von Drossdick, as Cession Commissioner;

Have this day, the 1st July, 1816, met together, and, after exchanging their Full Powers, duly authenticated copies of which were recorded, the Austrian Cession Commissioner declared that by virtue of his Full Powers he ceded and made over, without any reserve whatsoever, to the Prussian Seisin Commissioner, His Imperial Majesty's land Districts situate in the former Department of the Saar,* which districts were designated in Article VI. of the Treaty concluded at Paris on the 3rd November, 1815 (No. 38), between the Allied Powers, relative to the said Territorial Indemnification: such districts, moreover, consisting of the Cantons of Saarburg, Merzig, Wadern, Tholey, Ottweiler, that part of the Canton of Lohbach which was ceded by France in the year 1814, the remains of the Canton of Lonz (including the portions heretofore belonging to the Department of Walder, and situated on the right bank of the Moselle), Hermeskeil and Birkenfeld, as well as the Cantons of Baumholder and Grumbach, the latter, with the exception of the townships of Eschenau and St. Julien; also the Canton of St. Wendel, with the exception of the townships of Saal, Niederkirchen, Bubach, Marth, Hof, and Ostenbrücken; and lastly the following townships, formerly belonging to the Canton of Cusel-viz., Schwarzerden, Reichweiler, Pfeffelbach, Ruthweiler, Burge, and Thal-Lichtenberg, together with all the Rights and Privileges of the same description, and to the same extent as were hitherto held by the same by His Imperial Austrian Majesty. He does, therefore, now, in * See also Treaty of 20th July, 1819, Art, XI.

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