[Boundaries, &c.] Signed at No. 96.-CONVENTION between Prussia and Saxony, for the Settlement of Boundaries and Claims. Dresden, 28th August, 1819. Preamble. Reference to Treaty of 18th May, 1815. 1. Detailed description of Frontiers. 2. Reciprocal Rights and Privileges in the divided Territories. Taxes and other Public Imposts. Revenues from Estates Noble. Free Import and Export of Produce and Merchandise. Adjacent and conterminous Estates. Rights acquired by Privileges from the Government. Obligation to serve in the Army. Ecclesiastical and Scholastic Affairs. Monopoly of Guilds and Trades. Grinding in Mills on Foreign Territory. Patrimonial Jurisdiction. Lay Fiefs. Other Rights belonging to Private Persons. Rights of Common, Tenures, and Servitudes. Right of Tenants to remove. Compulsion to buy Beer, grind Corn, &c., at stated places only. Rents and Fines. Right of Hunting, Timber, &c. Services and base Tenures. Services and base Tenures on Crown Lands. 3. Pending Law Suits. Entails. Jurisdiction in Personal Suits. Administration of Estates of deceased Persons. Arrears of Dues on Real Property. Proceedings with regard to Estates divided or mortgaged in cases of Bankruptcy. 4 On the Tax-Credit Fund, and its Debts. Regulation of this Public Debt. Apportionment of the same. Mode of Settlement. Portion of Prussia. Plan of Division. Apportionment of unredeemable Tax Fund. Notes to each Party. Public Notice relating to the Public Debt, as apportioned to each Government. Of the classification of different series of the Public Debt. Indemnities due from the former Kingdom of Westphalia. Funding of Floating Debts. Expenses of Administration. Of the Bonds of 1811 which are not yet issued. Settlement of the Balance of the Tax-Credit Fund. Final Account. Reciprocal renunciation of Claims. 5. Tax Exchequer Fund. Apportionment of its Division. Balances of money belonging to the Tax Fund of the Circles and Chapters. Moneys received from the undivided Circles since the 5th of June, 1815. Balances of the Tax Fund in each of the undivided Circles. Balances remaining in the Branch Funds. Collection of Taxes in arrear, and their Settlement. Regulation for the Payment of certain other Claims. Apportionment of Deposits. Security Bonds or Moneys to be delivered up. Arrears of Interest on the Loan of the Electorate of Brunswick. Funds of the Chapter and Estates of Merseberg. Final Account. Reciprocal renunciation of Claims. 6. Exchequer Credit Fund, and Debts of the same. Its Apportionment, and Amount belonging to each Party. Mode of its Apportionment. Indemnity to Saxony on account of her larger portion of Debt, [Boundaries, &c.] Funding of the Floating Debts. Partition of the Exchequer Credit 7. Regulations relating to the Claims on the Tax Fund and the Exchequer Credit Fund. The cancelling of redeemed Bonds and Coupons. Payment, or Settlement, of the Sums due to each Party. Proceedings relating to lost or unclaimed Bonds. Appropriation of excluded Claims. Restitution of Papers and Documents relating to the Depart ment of Taxes, and the Affairs of the Exchequer Credit Funds. 8. Security to the Creditors of the Tax Fund and the Exchequer Chamber. 9. Debts of the Central Tax Commission. Declaratory explanation of the former Convention on this subject. Extradition of the Moneys and Papers belonging to the Commissions. 10. Cash Notes and Assets belonging to this Fund. Part apportioned to Prussia. Amount to be paid to Saxony. Partition of the Assets. The old Exchange Fund. The new Discounting Fund. Conversion of the Cash Notes. Restitution of the residue Funds. Deposits with the Corporation of Leipzig. Payments of Rewards to Discoverers of Forgers of Cash Notes. 11. Receipts of, and advances made by, Prussia, during the administration of Saxony. Sums drawn from the General Treasury of Finances on the 5th of June, 1815. The Bonds of the States, amounting to 50,000 dollars, included in the said Sums. Renunciation of Prussia as to certain Bonds of the Loan of 1811. 12. Public Financial Boards and their Revenues. Participation of Prussia in certain Debts of the Financial Boards. Debts of the Exchequer Credit Chamber. Mortgage Debts and Inscriptions. The Principality of Mansfeld's Debt. The Principality of Weissenfels' Debt. The Weida Claims. Pensions granted in compensation of the said Claims. Additional interest paid by the General Treasury, chargeable upon certain Taxes. The Bailiwicks' Funds. Funds belonging to Chapters and Cathedrals. Interest thereon. Surrender of Title Deeds relating thereto. Existing Funds of Provinces. Stock, Stores, and Effects. Advances of Money, and Claims arising therefrom. Arrears of Revenue, and Expenses of Administration. Arrears of grants made by the States. Sums levied or paid by mistake or by places in dispute. Reciprocal Guarantee of Securities. Extradition of Documents relating thereto. Accounts already settled between the Saxon Government and certain Government Functionaries and Tenants. Deposits made into the General Treasury Fund. Deposits remaining still in trust of Inferior Boards, in the separated part of the Country. 13. Military Affairs and Military Fund. Apportionment of the Army and Military Effects. Advances of Money made by the General Military Fund. Debts of the said Fund. Expenses of the Fortifications of Torgau and Wittenberg. Claims of Foreign States for Provisions furnished to Saxon Troops. Advances of Money made by Russia to Saxon Prisoners. Cases where the parties interested have since died. Expenses of Provisions furnished to Saxon and Prussian Troops. Military Marriage Fund. Securities of Military Accountants. 14. Pensions and half pay. 15. Funds of the States and Corporations of the Nobility. [Boundaries, &c.] 16. Claims relating to the Circle of Cottbus. 17. Fire Insurance Fund and Establishments. The Old Fire Insurance Fund. Real Property Insurance Fund. Disputed Territories on the Frontiers. Personal Property Insurance Fund. 18. Fund of the Commission of Succours and Restoration. expenditure of the said Commission. 19. Obstetric Establishments. 20. Military Asylum at Annaburg. Debts and 21. Prisons, Hospitals, Asylums, Orphan Establishments, and Houses of Industry. Stipulations relating to each Establishment, its Property, &c. Assets still due to them. Securities. Reimbursement of Sums deposited by Inmates of Hospitals for Board, Lodging, Clothing, &c., and of Sums bequeathed to them. Claims of Lower Lusatia. Partition of the General Poor Fund. Mutual transfer from one into the other Country of the Inmates of Bridewells, Hospitals, Madhouses, Asylums, and Workhouses, and reimbursement of Expenses incurred in providing for such Persons. Special Stipulations concerning the Orphan Asylum at Langendorf. Relief Fund. General Fund of Houses of Industry. Interest. Payment of the Rates due to Prussia. Reciprocal Renunciation. 22. Charitable Institutions and School Establishments. Future proceedings as to Establishments whose affairs are still unsettled. Provisional continuation of Payments to them from both Countries. Exhibitions. Universities. Stipulations of the Convention of 27th July, 1817. Charitable Institutions under the control of the States of Upper Lusatia. 23. Estates of the late Teutonic Order. 24. Convent of St. James in Freiberg. Procuration Fund of Meissen. Pforta College. Pforta Reversionary Fund. Pforta Interest Fund. 25. Wexi Fund. The two Pension and Reward Funds under the control of the States. 26. Procuration Fund at Zeitz. Royal Chapel Fund at Zeitz. Almonry Fund at Zeitz. 27. General School Fund. Schoolmasters' Emoluments Fund. 28. Augustean Fund for Widows and Children of Clergymen. Klengel Fund. 29. Stipulations relating to the supply of Salt. Quantity and Quality of the Salt. Salt Works, from whence the Salt is to be furnished. Fixed Prices. Rate at which the Price is to be fixed. already delivered. Terms, and time of Payment. and Terms. Duration of Convention. Payment for Salt Time of delivery, Custom-House Duties and other Dues. Measures for preventing Fraud. 30. Transfer of Documents. 31. Final Settlement of Accounts. 32. Accession of the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar. 33. Reciprocal Renunciation of Claims. 34. Navigation of the Elbe. Reference to Vienna Congress Treaty, of 9th June, 1815. 35. Promulgation of certain Articles of this Convention. 36. Ratifications. [Boundaries, &c.] (Translation.*) Reference to Treaty of 18th May, 1815. His Majesty the King of Saxony and His Majesty the King of Prussia having agreed, in Article XIV. of the Treaty concluded at Vienna on the 18th May, 1815 (No. 16), to appoint Commissioners for the purpose of carrying into effect the arrangements contained in Articles VI. to XIII., and XVI. to XX., of the said Treaty; and His Majesty the Emperor of Austria having, in Article XV. of the above-mentioned Treaty, offered his mediation between the Courts of Saxony and Prussia on all points which are connected with the Territorial Cessions rendered necessary by the Stipulations of Article II. : And whereas, the Two High Contracting Parties having most readily agreed to accept the said mediation, as well generally as upon those special points, with the settlement of which the Commissions mentioned in Articles III. and XIV. have been charged, the said Commissioners, for the adjustment and execution of the Stipulations of the Peace, in pursuance thereof, met at Dresden, soon after the Ratification of the said Treaty of Peace of Vienna, and opened the Negociations upon the same, with the co-operation of the mediating Commissioner appointed by His Majesty the Emperor of Austria ; And whereas, although some important points have been discussed and settled, up to the month of April last year, by the said Commissioners, and under the above-mentioned mediation, to the perfect satisfaction of the Two High Contracting Parties, and other points have been prepared for subsequent settlement, it has been deemed desirable, notwithstanding, by both Governments, to appoint Special Plenipotentiaries, with the view of accelerating and simplifying the negotiation thereof, to adjust the remaining differences, and to effect the final conclusion of the Stipulations relating to the settlement of the Peace: For this purpose, His Majesty the King of Saxony has appointed as his Plenipotentiary Hans August Fürchtegott von Globig, his Privy Councillor and Chamberlain, and his Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Prussia, &c.; And His Majesty the King of Prussia, as his Plenipotentiary, Johann Ludwig von Jordan, his Actual Privy Councillor of Lega*For German version, see State Papers," vol. vi., p. 960. 66 [Boundaries, &c.] tion, and Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Saxony, &c.; Who, after having exchanged their Full Powers, which were found to be in good and due form, have agreed on the following Articles: ARTS. I. to XXXVI. (See Table.) Done at Dresden, 28th August, 1819. (L.S.) GARTNER. (L.S.) VON GLOBIG. (L.S.) VON JORDAN. |