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[Boundaries.]

No.126.-BOUNDARY CONVENTION between Bavaria and France. Signed at Weissenburg, 9th December, 1825.

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Preamble. Reference to Treaties of 30th May, 1814, 20th November, 1815, and 5th July, 1825.

1. The River Schwalb to form the Limit between France and Rhenish Bavaria.

2. Tracing of Limit of Cession made to France by Bavaria of part of the Commune of Obersteinbach, and the Commune of Niedersteinbach, including the Wengelsbach Domain.

3. Tracing of Limits of the Forests of Dorenberg, Alsberg and Siebentheile. 4. Tracing of Limit round Weissenburg and Altstadt, on the eft bank of the Lauter.

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to Detailed Demarcation of Frontiers.

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21. Ratifications.

(Translation.)

Reference to Treaties of 30th May, 1814, 20th November, 1815, and 5th July, 1825.

THE Commissioners appointed by virtue of § 6 of Article I of the Treaty of Paris of the 20th November, 1815 (No. 40), namely; on the part of His Majesty the King of France and Navarre, the Sieur Jean Etienne Casimir Poitevin, Viscount de Maureillan, Lieutenant-General of the Armies of the King, Inspector-General of Fortifications, &c.;

And, on the part of His Majesty the King of Bavaria, the Sieur Joseph Stichanes, Councillor of State of his said Majesty, Commissary-General and President of the Regency of the Circle of the Rhine established at Spire, &c.; after having respectively and in due form communicated to each other their Full Powers, and after having made themselves acquainted with the arrangements contained in the Separate Convention concluded at Paris on the 5th July, 1825 (No. 124), the object of which was to decide upon the different points which the Treaties of the 30th May, 1814 (No. 1) and 20th November, 1815 (No. 40), left undecided, have agreed upon the following Articles :

ART. I. The River Schwalb to form the Limit between France and Rhenish Bavaria.

ART. II. Tracing of Limit of Cessions made to France by

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Bavaria of part of the Commune of Ober-Steinbach, and the Commune of Nieder-Steinbach, including the Wengelsbach Domain.

ART. III. Tracing of Limits of the Forests of Dorenberg, Alsberg, and Siebentheil.

ART. IV. Tracing of Limit round Weissenburg and Altstadt, on the Left Bank of the Lauter.

ARTS. V to XX. Detailed Demarcation of Frontiers.

Ratifications.

ART. XXI. The present Convention shall be ratified, and the Ratifications thereof shall be exchanged within 6 weeks, or sooner if possible.

In witness whereof the above-mentioned Commissioners have signed it, and have affixed thereto the Seal of their Arms. Done at Weissenburg, 9th December, 1825.

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No.127.-SUPPLEMENTARY CONVENTION between
Prussia, Hanover, Hesse-Cassel, Brunswick, Oldenburg,
Lippe, and Bremen, relative to the Navigation of the
Weser. Signed at Bremen, 21st December, 1825.

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Preamble. Reference to Convention of 10th September, 1823.

I to 2. Owners of Ferries shall work their own Machinery.

II to 12. Rectification of the Proportion of Weights and Measures.

III to 15. Reduction of the Duty.

IV to 16. Rectification of Tolls to be received at the Customs Offices.

V to 17. Modification of the Abatements.

VI to 20. Rectification of the Normal Weight Table.

VII to 21.

VIII to 50.

Position of certain Customs Offices.

Where no alterations are made hereby, the former Convention
remains in full force.

IX to 51. The provisions of this Convention shall come into force on the 1st

of May, 1826.

X to 54. The next Revision Commission shall meet at Münden (Hanover)

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Preamble. Reference to Convention of 10th September, 1823.

IN accordance with Article LIV of the Weser Navigation Convention of 10th September, 1823 (No. 118), the first Revision Commission met at Bremen, on the 21st December, 1825, and the Commissioners appointed by the several States agreed to the following Supplementary Provisions:—

ARTS. I to LIV, and Annexes A to C. (See Table.)

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[Kniphausen.]

No. 128.-ENGAGEMENT of the Germanic Confederation to Guarantee the execution of the Treaty of 8th June, 1825, respecting Kniphausen.-9th March, 1826.

(Translation.)

THE Reporter of the Federal Committee reports, upon a petition of Major-General Count Bentinck for securing his Rights as first Agnate, and in a qualified opinion proposes that in the Decree, whereby the Confederation declares its guarantee of the Treaty, it be specifically expressed that it occur salvo jure cujusvis tertii.

Præsidium informs the Federal Assembly that he will nevertheless this day submit the draft of a Decree for undertaking the Guarantee, but that the Oldenburg Minister desires previously to make a declaration.

Oldenburg: referring to a former vote of the Saxon Minister, Oldenburg has ever been alive to the difficulties which might arise from the agreement with respect to Kniphausen. But is convinced that, if the Guarantee be agreed to, these will only concern Oldenburg, but never the Confederation. In consideration of that which has been observed by the Assembly in similar cases, he sees no reason for entering more fully upon the contents of this Agreement, but may confine himself to the declaration, that as the merely intermediate connection of Kniphausen with the Confederation is clearly expressed, His Serene Highness will represent the Seignory of Kniphausen in all its relations to the Confederation, and also effect the observance of all general Federal Decrees, and pledges himself to the fulfilment of all obligations, taken on the part of the Seignory of Kniphausen, with respect to pecuniary contributions. There may therefore be no reason for adding reservations and declarations to the Guarantee, which may weaken the force of the Guarantee, and create difficulties to its application.

As by this Declaration all the wishes expressed in several votes, in the interest of the Federal Constitution, are fairly met, Præsidium believes that this object is ripe for a resolution.

DECREE.

1. The German Confederation undertakes the Guarantee of

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the Convention between His Serene Highness the Duke of Oldenburg and Count Bentinck, with respect to the political relations of the Seignory of Kniphausen, concluded at Berlin, on the 8th June, 1825 (No. 123), under the Mediation of the Courts of St. Petersburgh, Vienna, and Berlin, and afterwards ratified, with the stipulation specified in Article IX in this particular instance entirely personal.

The Confederation undertakes this Guarantee all the more readily, as thereby the immediate and individual relations of His Serene Highness the Duke of Oldenburg to the Confederation will suffer no change, nor prejudice the well-founded Rights of third parties.

2. This Decree shall be communicated to Major-General Count Bentinck, in answer to his request, for security of his Rights as Agnate, to the Seignory of Kniphausen.

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