[Boundaries.] No. 148.-BOUNDARY CONVENTION between France and Prussia. Signed at Sarrebruck, 23rd October, 1829. Preamble. Reference to Treaty of 20th November, 1815; and Declaration of 11th June, 1827. 1. Tracing of disputed Boundary, and exchange of Territory. 2. No claims whatever to be made on ceded Territories. 3. The Bed of Rivers and Rivulets to serve as Boundaries. All Building prohibited unless of common interest, and undertaken by common consent. 4. All Roads forming the Line of Boundary to be enjoyed in common. 5. No buildings to be constructed along the Frontier at a less distance than 30 feet. 6. 7. Privileges to owners of Property on both sides of the Frontier. 8. Goods, &c., belonging to Communes and Public Establishments. 9. Payment of Communal Administration of divided Mayoralties. 10. Judicial and Administrative Acts of ceded Territories to be respected. 11. Rights of Bordering Communes. 12. Fishery Rights on the Sarre and the Blies. 13. Freedom of Passage through either country, Military and Military Stores excepted. 14. Delivery of Titles, Documents, &c., belonging to ceded Territories. 15. Liberty to Inhabitants to dispose of their Property and choose their residence. 16. Soldiers to be restored immediately after Ratification of Treaty. 17. Delegates to proceed to Demarcation of Frontier. 18. Delegates to propose any changes which they may consider necessary. 19. Ratifications. (Translation.*) Reference to Treaty of 20th November, 1815; and Declaration of 11th June, 1827. THE Commissioners appointed in virtue of paragraph 6 of Article I of the Treaty of Paris of 20th November, 1815 (No. 40), namely: On the part of His Majesty the King of France and Navarre, the Sieur Etienne Nicolas Rousseau, Colonel of the Royal Corps of Geographical Engineers, &c.; and on the part of His Majesty the King of Prussia, the Sieur Henri Delius, Chief President of the Council of Regency of Cologne, &c. * For French version, see "State Papers," vol. xvi, p. 907. [Boundaries.] After having respectively, and in due form, communicated their Full Powers, after having acknowledged that the Declaration signed and exchanged on the 11th June, 1827 (No. 135), by which their respective Governments agreed to terminate the differences which had arisen relative to the District of Leyden, had been fulfilled in so far as relates to Article III of that Declaration, after having also acknowledged that the Procès-Verbal drawn up at Sarrebruck, on the 20th February, 1821, by their Delegates, with the view of fixing the geometrical position of the places having suburbs, with reference to the Line which, in execution of the Treaty of 20th November, 1815 (No. 40), is to be drawn from Perl to Houve, was to serve as a basis for tracing the boundary along that Line; the Commissioners, adopting the arrangements and projects of exchange settled by the same Delegates, and inserted in the Procès-Verbal, have agreed upon the following Articles : ARTS. I to XIX. (See Table.) Done at Sarrebruck, 23rd October, 1829. (L.S.) ROUSSEAU. List and Names of Villages, Hamlets, and Dependencies, the Territories of which join the New Limits determined upon by the Definitive Convention of the 23rd October, 1829, between France and Prussia. |