[Luxemburg, &c.] being destined, in virtue of the Arrangements made at Paris between the Allied Powers, to strengthen the line of Defence of the States which border upon France, His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, Grand Duke of Luxemburg, shall receive for that purpose the sum of 60,000,000 francs. Indemnity to be employed for Defence of Frontiers. His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, Grand Duke of Luxemburg, undertakes to employ this sum in the works necessary for the defence of the frontiers of His States, conformably to the system adopted by the Allied Powers, and inserted in the Protocol of the Conference of their Ministers of the 21st of November, 1815. This Protocol is annexed to the present Treaty (No. 49) and shall have the same force and validity as if it were inserted therein word for word. Relinquishment of Claim to Indemnification under Treaty of 20th November, 1815. ART. III. His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, Grand Duke of Luxemburg, justly appreciating the advantages which result from the preceeding arrangements, both as they regard the extention of His territory and its means of defence, gives up, in reference to the sums stipulated in Article IV. of the Treaty of Paris of the 20th of November, 1815 (No. 40), the share which His Majesty might have laid claim to, under the head of Indemnifications, and which was fixed by the Protocol of the Conference of the 21st of November, 1815, at 21,264,832 fr. 22 c. Indemnity to be divided between Austria and Prussia. His Majesty agrees that this share shall serve to complete the Indemnifications to Austria and Prussia, and shall be divided in equal proportions between those two Powers. Fortress of Luxemburg to be a Fortress of the Germanic Con federation. ART. IV. Article III. of the Treaty concluded at Vienna the 31st of May, 1815 (No. 22), and Article LXVII. of the Act of the Congress of Vienna (No. 27), having stipulated that the Fortress of Luxemburg shall be considered as a Fortress of the Germanic Confederation, that Stipulation is maintained and expressly confirmed by the present Convention. [Luxemburg, &c.] Prussia to appoint Governor and Commandant of Fortress of Luxemburg. Composition of Garrison. ART. V. His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, Grand Duke of Luxemburg, concedes to His Majesty the King of Prussia the right of appointing the Governor and the Commandant of that Fortress, and agrees that the garrison in general, as well as each particular description of force, shall be composed of three-fourths Prussian and one-fourth Belgic troops (Troupes des Pays-Bas); thus relinquishing the right of appointment secured to His Majesty by Article LXVII. of the Act of the Congress of Vienna (No. 27), without, however, this arrangement, which is solely of a military nature, affecting in any respect the right of Sovereignty of His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, Grand Duke of Luxemburg, over the city and Fortress of Luxemburg. Civil Government over City and Fortress of Luxemburg vested in King of Netherlands. ART. VI. The right of Sovereignty belonging in its fullest extent to His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, Grand Duke of Luxemburg, over the city and Fortress of Luxemburg, as well as throughout the whole of the Grand Duchy, the Administration of Justice, the collection of Duties and Taxes of every description, as well as every other branch of the Civil Administration, shall remain exclusively in the hands of His Majesty's Agents. Maintenance of Fortress of Luxemburg to be decided by Diet of Germanic Confederation. ART. VII. Luxemburg being a Fortress of the Germanic Confederation, it consequently cannot be considered that the Governments of Prussia and the Netherlands are obliged to maintain it exclusively at their charge, and the question of its maintenance is therefore reserved for the discussions of the Diet. Treaty of 31st May, 1815, confirmed. ART. VIII. The Treaty concluded between His Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty and His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, at Vienna, the 31st of May, 1815 (No. 22), is confirmed in all such of its stipulations as have not been changed or modified by the clauses of the present Treaty. [Luxemburg, &c.] Ratifications. ART. IX. The present Treaty shall be ratified and the Ratifications exchanged within the space of three months, or sooner if possible. In testimony whereof the Plenipotentiaries have hereunto affixed their Hands and Seals. Done at Frankfort on the Mayne, the 12th of March, 1817. (L.S.) WESSENBERG. (L.S.) GAGERN. ANNEX. Protocol of Conference of 21st November, 1815. (See No. 49.) [Wittgenstein.] No. 68. TERRITORIAL CONVENTION between Prussia and Hesse-Darmstadt. Signed at Munster, 12th March, 1817. Preamble. Reference to Treaty of 30th June, 1816. Preamble. Reference to Treaty of 30th June, 1816. WHEREAS the undersigned Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Plenipotentiaries were charged with the Final Execution of the State Treaty of 30th June, 1816 (No. 58), whereby Ilis Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Hesse ceded to the Crown of Prussia the Duchy of Westphalia and the Sovereignty and feudal supremacy over the Counties of Wittgenstein-Wittgenstein and Wittgenstein-Berleburg, and various obstacles having arisen *See Supplementary Convention of 9th July, 1817. + For German version, see “State Papers," vol. iii., p. 823. [Wittgenstein.] which could not be removed by the written negociations hitherto carried on; and whereas, especially, the exact discovery and collection of the Cameral Arrears reserved on the Grand Ducal Hessian side in that State Treaty, would still require a special Grand Ducal Administration in the Duchy of Westphalia for a long time, thus increasing the collisions hitherto often occurring between that Administration and the Royal Prussian authorities about the respective usage of the documents and accounts in these matters, and the definitive fulfilment of the State Treaty would be still the more deferred; whereas, finally, the enforcement of those Arrears according to Treaty would cause the ruin of many debtors, now Prussian subjects, therefore the undersigned Plenipotentiaries have considered it advantageous to both States to enter into a Convention for the removal of all these obstacles and difficulties, and the prompt arrangement of all points of difference hitherto under negociation. With this view, the undersigned Plenipotentiaries on both sides have, in the oral Conference held this day, concluded the following Convention, but with reservation of the sanction of their high Governments. ARTS. I. to XXVI. (See Table.) In witness whereof this Convention is drawn up in duplicate and signed man, prop. by the Plenipotentiaries on both sides. Done at Munster, March 12, 1817. (L.S) LUDWIG VON VINCKE. (L.S.) GEORG PHILIPP FRIEDRICH HABERKORN. |