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[Hohenzollern (Hechingen and Sigmaringen).]

No. 219.-DECREE of the King of Prussia, relative to the Incorporation of the Principalities of HohenzollernHechingen and Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen with the Prussian Dominions. Charlottenburg, 12th March, 1850.*

(Translation.)

WE, Frederick William, by the grace of God, King of Prussia, &c., with the consent of both Chambers, decree as follows:

§ 1. The Union of the Principalities of Hohenzollern-Hechingen and Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen with the Prussian State Territory is sanctioned in virtue of the Treaty of the 7th December, 1849 (No. 217).

§ 2. The Ministry of State is charged with the execution of this Law.

Witness our Royal autograph, signature, and seal hereto affixed.

Given at Charlottenburg, the 12th March, 1850..

COUNT VON BRANDENBURG.

VON LADENBERG.

VON MANTEUFFEL.

VON DER HEYDT.

VON RABE.

SIMONS.

(L.S.) FREDERICK WILLIAM.

VON SCHLEINITZ.

VON STOCKHAUSEN.

* A Prussian Proclamation was issued on the same day; and the Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen resigned his Rights of Sovereignty by a Proclamation dated 6th April, 1850.

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No. 220.-TREATY between Prussia and the Principality of Lippe, for the Cession of the Co-Sovereignty over Lippstadt to Prussia. Signed at Berlin, May 17, 1850.

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3. Compensation to Prince of Lippe for Sovereign Right of Taxation. Right of Prussia to redeem and Capitalise Compensation for Taxation.

4. Annual Payment to be made by Prussia to the Educational Fund at Paderborn. Annual payment to be made by Government of Detmold to School Fund at Lippstadt.

5. Domanial Revenues in Lippstadt to be reserved to Government of Lippe. 6. Statutes of Ladies' Foundation at Lippstadt to remain in force. Prince of Lippe to have half the Property in case of Abolition of the Foundation.

7. Ratifications. Date of First Payments.

(Translation.)

WHEREAS the necessity has been felt of dissolving the community of Sovereignty over the Town of Lippstadt hitherto existing between the Crown of Prussia and the Principality of Lippe, and His Serene Highness the Prince of Lippe has determined to cede to the Crown of Prussia the existing co-Sovereign Rights belonging to His Highness over Lippstadt; therefore Plenipotentiaries have been appointed to conclude a Treaty upon this matter, namely:

By His Majesty the King of Prussia,

His Privy Councillor of Legation Hellwig, and

His Privy Councillor of Finance Hellwig;

By His Serene Highness the Prince of Lippe,

His Privy Councillor Piderit,

Who, in virtue of their Full Powers, reciprocally acknowledged as valid, have agreed to and concluded the following Articles, subject to Ratification:

Cession of Lippstadt to Prussia.

ART. I. His Serene Highness the Prince of Lippe hereby, for himself, his heirs, and successors, cedes to His Majesty the King of Prussia, all Sovereign and Government Rights which have

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hitherto belonged to His Highness as co-Sovereign over the whole town of Lippstadt.

Acceptance of Cession by Prussia.

ART. II. His Majesty the King of Prussia accepts the Cession made in Article I, and by reason thereof acquires the whole collective Sovereignty over Lippstadt and all the Government Rights connected therewith, which he will henceforth exercise exclusively, and cause to be exercised in his Royal

name.

Compensation to Prince of Lippe for Sovereign Right of Taxa

tion.

ART. III. As a compensation for the share of the Sovereign Right of Taxation over Lippstadt ceded by His Serene Highness the Prince of Lippe with the other rights, according to Article I, a fixed rent of 9,120 thalers, calculated upon 10 years' average proceeds of the share of the Taxation, will be paid as it becomes due, from the Prussian Treasury to the Princely Government at Detmold, in quarterly instalments of 2,280 thalers, Prussian

currency.

Right of Prussia to redeem and Capitalise Compensation for

Taxation.

The Right is, however, reserved to the Royal Prussian Government of entirely redeeming this Rent, after a previous notice of at least 6 months, by the payment of a Capital sum equal to 25 times the amount of the yearly rent. The Compensation-Rent is guaranteed until the date of paying the Capital.

Annual Payment to be made by Prussia to the Educational Fund at Paderborn.

ART. IV. The payment of those 1,000 thalers, half in convention money, with 27 per cent. exchange against Prussian currency and half in pistoles, at 5 thalers gold, which, according to the socalled Falkenhagen Agreement of 18th and 23rd September, 1791, are to be paid in quarterly instalments by the Princely Government at Detmold to the Educational Fund at Paderborn, will be undertaken by the Prussian Crown instead of the Princely Government, and discharged out of the Prussian Treasury.

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Annual Payment to be made by Government of Detmold to School Fund at Lippstadt.

On the other hand, His Serene Highness the Prince of Lippe, in order to give the Town of Lippstadt a lasting proof of his good feeling, engages to have the yearly sum of 1,075 thalers Prussian currency, paid by the Princely Government at Detmold to the School Fund at Lippstadt, in quarterly instalments as they become due, as a contribution to the schools of the town.

Domanial Revenues in Lippstadt to be reserved to Government of Lippe.

ART. V. The Domanial Revenues from fee-farm-rents, groundrents, &c., belonging to the Princely Government of Lippe in Lippstadt, are reserved to it without alteration.

Statutes of Ladies' Foundation at Lippstadt to remain in force.

ART. VI. With regard to the Ladies' Foundation at Lippstadt, the provisions of the Statutes of 16th February, and 27th March. 1827, remain as they are, especially with respect to the grant of places on the Foundation, as well as in regard to the joint direction and supervision of the Internal Administration of this Foundation by the Royal Government at Arnsberg, and the Princely Government at Detmold.

Prince of Lippe to have half the Property in case of Abolition of the Foundation.

If, contrary to expectation, the Abolition of the Foundation should be necessary hereafter, half the Property thereof will be placed at the disposal of His Serene Highness the Prince of Lippe.

Ratifications.

ART. VII. The present Treaty, so soon as it has received the constitutional assent of the Prussian Chambers, shall be ratified by His Majesty the King of Prussia and by His Serene Highness the Prince of Lippe, and the exchange of the Ratification-documents shall be expedited as much as possible.

Date of First Payments.

The First Payments on account of the engagements recipro

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cally undertaken in Articles III and IV, shall take place for that quarter within which the exchange of the Ratification-documents has been effected.

In witness whereof the Plenipotentiaries on both sides have signed and sealed the present Treaty.

Done at Berlin, 17th May, 1850.

(L.S.) FRIEDRICH HELLWIG.

(L.S.) GEORG HERRMANN HELLWIG.

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