[2nd Peace of Paris. Claims of British Subjects.] This delay shall be extended to 3 Months for the Creditors residing in Europe, 6 Months for such as are in the western colonies, and 12 Months for such as are resident in the East Indies, or in other Countries equally distant. After the expiration of these periods, the said Subjects of His Britannic Majesty shall no longer have the benefit of the present Liquidation. Appointment of Commissioners. ART. XIII. In order to proceed in the Liquidation and allowance of the Claims mentioned in the preceding Articles, there shall be formed a Commission, composed of two French and two English Commissioners, who shall be nominated and appointed by their respective Governments. Liquidation, &c., of Sums allowed by Commissioners. These Commissioners, after they shall have allowed and admitted the Titles to the Claims, shall proceed, according to the principles pointed out, to the allowance, liquidation, and determination of the Sums which shall be due to each Creditor. Certificates to be delivered on Claims being allowed. In proportion as the Claims shall be allowed and ascertained, they shall deliver to the Creditors the two Certificates mentioned in Article X, one for the capital, the other for the interests. Commission of Arbitration.* ART. XIV. A Commission of Arbitrators shall at the same time be named, composed of four members, two of whom shall be named by the British Government, and two by the French Government. If it shall be necessary to call upon the Arbitrators, in case of an equality of votes on any point, the four names of the Arbitra tors, English and French, shall be put into an urn, and the one of the four whose names shall be drawn first shall be the Arbitrator of the particular affair upon which there shall have been guch equality of votes. Each of the Commissioners of Liquidation shall, in his turn, take from the urn the ticket which is to point out the Arbitrator. The Commissioners of Liquidation were:-Mr. Colin Alexander Mackenzie and Mr. George Lewis Newnham. The Commissioners of Arbitration were:-Mr. George Hammond and Mr. David Richard Morier. The Commissioners of Deposit were :- -Mr. David Richard Morier and Mr. James Drummond. Their appointments were dated 27th December, 1815. [2nd Peace of Paris. Claims of British Subjects.] A Procès-verbal shall be made of this operation, and shall be annexed to the one which shall be drawn up for the liquidation and determination of the particular Claim. Vacancies in either Commission to be filled up without delay. If a Vacancy shall take place, either in the Commission of Liquidation or in that of Arbitration, the Government, which ought to provide for the nomination of a new member, shall proceed to that nomination without delay, in order that the two Commissions may always remain as far as possible complete. Absent Commissioner of Liquidation to be replaced by one of the Arbitrators. If one of the Commissioners of Liquidation shall be absent, he shall be replaced, during his absence, by one of the Arbitrators of his Nation; and as in that case there will remain but one Arbitrator of that Nation, the two Arbitrators of the other Nation shall also be reduced to one by lot. Absent Commissioner of Arbitration to be replaced by a Commissioner of Liquidation. And if one of the Arbitrators should absent himself, the same operation shall take place, in order to reduce to one the two Arbitrators of the other Nation. It is generally understood, that in order to obviate all manner of delay in this business, the Liquidation and Adjudication shall not be suspended, provided there shall be present, and in activity, one Commissioner and one Arbitrator of each Nation, the principle of equality between the Commissioners and the Arbitrators of the two Nations being always preserved, and re-established, if necessary, by lot. Oath to be taken by New Commissioners. Whenever either of the Contracting Powers shall proceed to the nomination of new Commissioners of Liquidation, of Deposit, or of Arbitration, the said Commissioners shall be obliged, previously to their entering upon their functions, to make the Oath, and in the forms detailed in the following Article. Oath to be taken by Commissioners of Liquidation, Deposit, and Arbitration. ART. XV. The Commissioners of Liquidation, the Commis Claims of British Subjects.] [2nd Peace of Paris. sioners of Deposit, and the Arbitrators, shall together make an Oath, in presence of the Ambassador of His Britannic Majesty, and between the hands of the Keeper of the Seals of France, to proceed justly and faithfully, to have no preference either for the Creditor or for the Debtor, and to act in all their proceedings according to the stipulations of the Treaty of Paris of the 30th May, 1814 (No. 1), and of the Treaties and Conventions with France, signed this day (Nos. 40, 41, 42, 45, 46), and more particularly according to those of the present Convention. Power to Commissioners to call Witnesses. The Commissioners of Liquidation and the Arbitrators shall be authorised to call Witnesses whenever they shall judge it necessary, and to examine them by Oath in the usual forms, upon all points relative to the different Claims which form the object of this Convention. Time of Restoration of French Colonies of Martinique and Guadaloupe. ART. XVI. When the 3,500,000 francs of Interest, mentioned in Article IX, shall have been inscribed in the name of the Commissioners, who are to hold that sum in Deposit, and on the first demand which shall be thereafter made by the French Government, His Britannic Majesty shall give the necessary orders to carry into execution the restoration of the French Colonies, as stipulated by the Treaty of Paris of the 30th May, 1814 (No. 1), comprehending Martinique and Guadaloupe, which have been since occupied by the British Forces. The Inscription above-mentioned shall be made before the 1st January next, at the latest. Restoration of Prisoners of War. ART. XVII. The Prisoners of War, officers and soldiers, both naval and military or of any other description, taken during the hostilities which have lately ceased, shall on both sides be immediately restored to their respective Countries, under the same. conditions which are specified in the Convention of the 23rd April, 1814, and in the Treaty of the 30th May of the same year (No. 1); and the British Government renounces all claim to any * See Appendix. [2nd Peace of Paris. Bordeaux Claims.] sums or indemnities whatsoever, which might belong to it from the surplus arising from the maintenance of the said Prisoners of War; subject nevertheless, to the condition specified in Additional Article IV of the Treaty of Paris of the 30th May, 1814 (No. 1). Done at Paris, the 20th day of November, 1815. (L.S.) RICHELIEU. (L.S.) CASTLEREAGH. (L.S.) WELLINGTON. ADDITIONAL ARTICLE. Paris, 20th November, 1815. Bordeaux Claims.* The Claims of the Subjects of His Britannic Majesty, founded on a decision of His Most Christian Majesty, relative to the British Merchandise introduced into Bordeaux, in conformity to the Tariff of Customs published in the above-mentioned city, by His Royal Highness the Duke d'Angoulême, on the 24th March, 1814, shall be liquidated and paid, according to the principles and the object declared in the above-mentioned decision of His Most Christian Majesty. The Commission instituted by Article XIII of the Convention of this day, is directed to proceed immediately to the liquidation of the said Claim, and to fix the dates of its payment to be made in money. The decision which shall be made by the Commissioners, shall be executed immediately, according to its form and tenor. The present Additional Article shall have the same force and effect as if it were inserted, word for word, in the Convention signed this day, relative to the examination and liquidation of the Claims of the Subjects of His Britannic Majesty against the Government of France. In witness whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed it, and have thereto affixed the Seal of their Arms. Done at Paris, the 20th day of November, 1815. (L.S.) RICHELIEU. (L.S.) CASTLEREAGH. (L.S.) WELLINGTON. *See Separate Article, 25th April, 1818, and Additional Articles, 4th July, 1818. [Peace of Europe.] No. 47.-NOTE of the Allied Ministers to the Duke de Richelieu, relative to the Maintenance of the Peace of Europe. Paris, 20th November, 1815. (Translation.) THE Undersigned hope that the Duke de Richelieu will perceive in these Arrangements the same character and the same principles in which the measure of the Military Occupation of part of France has been conceived and adopted. They, moreover, carry with them, in quitting this country, the consolatory persuasion, that notwithstanding the elements of disorder which France may still contain in consequence of the Revolutionary Events, a wise and paternal Government, acting on principles adapted to compose and conciliate the minds of the people, and abstaining from all acts contrary to such system, will succeed not only in maintaining the Public Repose, but also in re-establishing universal Union and Confidence, while it will relieve the Allied Powers, as far as the measures of the Government will admit, from the painful necessity of recurring to the adoption of means, which, in the event of renewed disorder, would be imperiously prescribed to them by the duty of providing for the security of their own subjects and the general Tranquillity of Europe. The Undersigned, &c. CASTLEREAGH. HARDENBERG. METTERNICH. CAPO D'ISTRIA. |