[Private Claims on France.] Switzerland-250,000 francs. Tuscany-225,000 francs. Hanover, Brunswick, Hesse Electoral, and Prussia8,000 francs. Hesse (Electoral) and Saxe Weimar-700 francs. Grand Duchy of Hesse and Bavaria-10,000 francs. Saxony and Prussia-110,000 francs. Interest on Rentes, and Periods of Payment. ART. VIII. The sum of 12,040,000 francs in Rentes, stipulated for in Article I., shall bear interest from the 22nd March, 1818, the whole of it shall be deposited in the hands of the Special Commissioners of the Courts of Austria, Great Britain, Prussia, and Russia, to be afterwards delivered to those entitled thereto. at the periods and in the manner following: 1st. On the first of each month, the twelfth part of such sum as may become due to each power, conformably with the foregoing distribution, shall be transferred to their Commissioners at Paris, or their Delegates; which Commissioners or Delegates shall dispose thereof, in the manner hereafter directed. 2nd. The respective Governments or the Commissioners of Liquidation to be appointed by them, shall, at the end of every month, cause to be transferred to the individuals whose debts shall have been liquidated, and who may wish to remain proprietors of the shares of Rentes which shall be allotted them, inscriptions to the amount of the sums that may be due to them respectively. 3rd. All other liquidated claims, as well as the sums which may not be of an amount sufficient to form a separate inscription, shall be united in one collective inscription by the respective Governments, who shall direct their Commissioners or Agents in Paris to sell them for the benefit of the parties interested. The deposit of the aforesaid Rente of 12,040,000 francs, shall be made on the first day of the month succeeding the date of the exchange of the ratifications of the present Convention, by the Courts of Austria, Great Britain, and Prussia, only, on account of the remote situation of the Court of Russia. Delivery of Inscriptions to Royal Treasury of France. ART. IX. The delivery of the said inscriptions shall take [Private Claims on France.] place, notwithstanding any notice of transfer or protest to the Royal Treasury of France. Protests or Notices. Nevertheless, the protests and notices which shall have been made to the Treasury or delivered to the Commissioners of Liquidation, shall have, according to the order of their inscription, their full and entire effect, for the benefit of the third party concerned, provided (with regard to those which have been inscribed at the Treasury), that within the period of one month from the day of the exchange of the Ratifications of the present Convention, a list thereof shall be transmitted to the Commissioners of the respective Powers, with its supporting documents; without, however, any prejudice to the power which the. parties interested retain to make good the same in a direct manner by the production of their documents. The precise term abovementioned having expired, no regard shall be paid to the protests or notices which shall not have been previously delivered in to the Commissioners, whether from the Treasury or other persons concerned. Protests or appeals shall, however, be admitted when made. to the said Commissioners or to the Governments to which they belong. The protests, of which notice shall have been given within the proper time, either in respect to claims established or judgments obtained, shall be carried before the tribunal of the party attached. Facilities to be afforded by France for verification of Liquidation . of Debts. ART. X. The respective Governments being desirous to adopt the most effectual means of liquidating the debts due from France to the subjects of each, and of distributing the funds to which the said creditors are in due proportion entitled, according to the principles contained in the stipulations of the Treaty of the 30th May, 1814 (No. 1), and of the Convention of the 20th November, 1815 (No. 45); it is agreed that, to this end, the French Government shall cause to be transmitted to the Commissioners of the said Governments, or their delegates, the files containing the documents in support of the claims not yet discharged, and at the same time shall give the most precise orders, that all the information and papers that can be necessary for the verification of those claims, shall be furnished with the [Private Claims on France.] least possible delay to the said Commissioners, by the different offices and departments. It is further agreed, that in cases where payments shall have been made on account, or the French Government shall have had charges or deductions to make upon any of these individual claims, such payments, charges, and deductions shall be exactly specified. Liquidation of Claims for Military Services. ART. XI. The liquidation of the claims for military services requiring certain particular forms, it is agreed with regard thereto : 1st. That for the payment of the military who have belonged to corps, the Boards of Administration of which have furnished schedules of liquidation, it shall be sufficient that the said schedules be produced, or extracts therefrom, duly certified. 2nd. That where the Boards of Administration of Corps shall not have furnished schedules of liquidation, the depositaries of the archives of the said corps shall ascertain the sums due to the military belonging thereto, and deliver in a schedule thereof, to the correctness of which they shall certify. 3rd. That debts due to the Officers of the Staff, or to Officers unattached, as well as to the persons employed by the Military Administration, shall be verified at the War Offices, conformably to the regulations established for the French Military and employés by the circular of the 13th December, 1814, the documents in support of the schedules being annexed thereto, or when that shall not be practicable, communication being made of the same to the Commissioners or their delegates. Commissioners to form the Medium of Communication with Offices and Administrations. ART. XII. To facilitate the liquidation that is to take place according to Article X. above cited, the Commissioners named by the French Government shall form the medium of communication with the different Offices and Administrations. Through their means, also, the files of justificatory documents shall be transmitted. These transfers shall be correctly verified, and registry thereof taken for them, either on the margin or by a procès-verbal. Payment of Claims in Territories divided between several States. Arbitration in case of Difficulties. ART. XIII. Whereas certain Territories have been divided [Private Claims on France.] between several States, and whereas in such cases, that State to which the greatest part of the Territory belongs, has in general engaged to bring forward the common claims, founded upon Articles VI., VII., and IX. of the Convention of the 20th November, 1815 (No. 45); it is agreed that the Government which shall have put forward the claims, shall, in paying the Creditors, treat the subjects of all the States interested as his own. On the other hand, since, notwithstanding this division of territories, the principal possessor has borne the deduction of the whole capital and interest reimbursed, the other co-States shall account to him for the same, in proportion to the part of the said territory possessed by each one, conformably to the principles laid down in Articles VI. and VII. of the Convention of the 20th November, 1815. If any difficulties should arise relative to the execution of the present Article, they shall be settled by a Commission of Arbitration formed according to the mode and principles indicated by Article VIII. of the above-mentioned Convention. Ratifications. ART. XIV. The present Convention shall be ratified by the High Contracting Powers, and the Ratifications be exchanged at Paris within the space of two months, or sooner if practicable. Accessions. ART. XV. The States not actually contracting parties to the present Convention, but whose interests are affected thereby, in conformity to the preliminary agreement which took place between their Plenipotentiaries and His Excellency the Duke of Wellington, in concert with the undersigned Plenipotentiaries of the Courts who were contracting parties to the Treaty of the 20th November, 1815 (No. 40), are invited to transmit their Acts of Accession within the said space of two months. Done at Paris, the 25th April, 1818. (L. S.) CHAS. STUART. (L. S.) LE BARON DE VINCENT. (L. S.) RICHELIEU. (L. S.) F. COMTE DE GOLTZ. [Claims of British Subjects.] No. 80.-CONVENTION between Great Britain and France, for the Final Arrangement of the Claims of the Subjects of His Britannic Majesty upon the Government of France. Signed at Paris, 25th April, 1818. Preamble. Reference to Treaty of 20th November, 1815. 1. Annuity for Payment and Extinction of Claims of British Subjects. 4. Delivery of Inscriptions. List of Notifications to be delivered to British Commissioners within one Month. Expiration of term of Delay. 5. Information and Documents to be supplied by French Government to British Commissioners. 6. Claims of British Subjects already liquidated. 7. Ratifications. Separate Article, 25th April, 1818, Bordeaux Claims. (English Version.*) Preamble. Reference to Treaty of 20th November, 1815. His Britannic Majesty and His Most Christian Majesty, being desirous of removing all the obstacles which have hitherto retarded the full and entire execution of the Convention concluded in conformity to Article IX. of the Treaty of the 20th of November, 1815 (No. 46), relative to the examination and liquidation of the Claims of the Subjects of His Britannic Majesty against the Government of France, have named for their Plenipotentiaries : His Britannic Majesty-Sir Charles Stuart, His Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to His Most Christian Majesty, &c.; And His Most Christian Majesty, the Sieur Armand Emanuel Duplessis Richelieu, Duke of Richelieu, His Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, &c. ; Who, after having respectively communicated their Full Powers, have agreed to the following Articles : |