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towns, who have concurred in the arrange- | ACTS, ANNEXED TO THE GENERAL Treaty. ments specified, and in the Acts confirmed, in this General Treaty, are invited to accede to and Austria of the 21 April,"3 May, 1815.

ACT, No. I.—The Treaty between Russia it.

ART. CXX. The French language having In the Name of the Most Holy and Undibeen exclusively employed in all the copies of

vided Trinity. the present Treaty, it is declared, by the His Majesty the Emperor of all the Ruspowers who have concurred in this Act, that sias, his Majesty the Emperor of Austria, and the use made of that language shall not be his Majesty the King of Prussia, being equally construed into a precedent for the future; desirous of coming to an amicable underevery power, therefore, reserves to itself the standing upon the measures most proper to adoption in future Negociations and Con- adopt for consolidating the welfare of the ventions, the language it has heretofore em- Polish people, in the new relations in ployed in its diplomatic relations ; and this which they are placed by the changes effected Treaty shall not be cited as a precedent con- in the fate of the Duchy of Warsaw; and trary to the established practice.

wishing at the same time to extend the effects ART. CXXI. The present Treaty shall he of this benevolent disposition to the provinces ratified, and the ratifications exchanged in six and districts which composed the ancient months, and by the Court of Portugal in a kingdom of Poland, by means of such liberal year, or sooner if possible.

arrangements as circumstances have permitA copy of this General Treaty shall be de- ted, and by placing the intercourse of the posited, in the Archives of the Court and inhabitants, in respect to commerce, upon the State of his Imperial and Royal Apostolic most advantageous footing; have agreed to Majesty, at Vienna, in case any of the Courts conclude two separate Treaties, one between of Europe shall think proper to consult the Russia and Austria; and the other between original text of this instrument.

the former Power and Prussia, in order to In faith of which the respective Plenipo- comprise therein, the general engagements tentiaries have signed this Act, and have common to the three Powers, as well as the affixed thereunto the seals of their arms. stipulations which concern them individually.

Done at Vienna the 9th of June, in the Their Imperial Majesties have for this puryear of our Lord 1815.

pose named, for their separate Treaty, the (The Signatures follow in the alphabetical following Plenipotentiaries: order of the Courts.)

His Majesty the Emperor of all the Rus

sias, the Šieur Andrew, Count de RasoumoffAustria, (L. S.) The Prince de Metternich. sky, his Privy Counsellor, Knight of the Orders

(L. S.) The Baron de Wessenberg. of St. Andrew and of St. Alexander Newsky, SPAIN,

Grand-Cross of the Order of St. Vlodimir,

and his principal Plenipotentiary at the ConFRANCE, (L. S.) The Prince de Talleyrand.

gress. (L. S.) The Duke de D'Alberg. And his Majesty the Emperor of Austria, (L. S.) The Count Aleris de Noailles

the Sieur Clement-Venceslas-Lothaire, Prince

de Metternich-Winnebourg-Ochsenhausen, Great (L. S.) Clancarty.

Knight of the Golden Fleece, Grand-Cross of BRITAIN, I (L. S.) Cathcart.

the Royal Order of St. Stephen of Hungary, (L. S.) Stewart, L. G.

Knight of the Orders of St. Andrew, of St.

Alexander Newsky, and of St. Anne of the PORTUGAL, (L. S.) The Comte de Palmella. First Class, Grand Cordon of the Legion of

(L. S.) Antonio de Saldanha da Honour, Knight of the Orders of the Elo Gama.

phant, of the Supreme Order of the Annuncia (L. S.) D. Joaquim Loboda Silveira. tion, of the Black Eagle and the Red Eagle,

of the Seraphim, of St. Joseph of Tuscany, of Prussia, (L. S.) The Prince de Hardenberg, the Orders of St. Hubert, of the Golden Eagle

(L. S.) The Baron de Humboldt. of Wurtemberg, of Fidelity of Baden, of St. RUSSIA, (L. S.) The Prince de Rasoumoffsky Chancellor of the Military Order of Maria

John of Jerusalem, and of several others; (L. S.) The Count de Stackelberg. Theresa, Curator of the Academy of the Fine (L. S.) The Count de Nesselrode. Arts, Chamberlain, intimate and actual Coun

sellor of his Majesty the Emperor of Austria, SWEDEN, (L. S.) The Count Charles-drel de King of Hungary and Bohemia, his Minister Lowenhielm.

of State, of Conferences, and of Foreign AfSave and except the reservation made to fairs, and his Plenipotentiary at the Congress; the Articles 101, 102, and 104, of the Treaty. who, after having exchanged their full powers,

found in due and proper form, have agreed upon, concluded, and signed the following Articles :

ART. I. His Majesty the Emperor of all

the Russias cedes to his Imperial and Royal (VOL. XXXII.)

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Apostolic Majesty, the districts which were duals, of whatever rank, sex, or condition they dismembered from Eastern Galicia, in virtue may be. of the Treaty of Vienna of 1809, from the ART. VIIJ. In consequence of the precircles of Zlóczow, Bzzezan, Tarnapol, and ceding Article, no individual shall in future Zalesczyk; and the frontiers on this side shall be prosecuted or disturbed, in any manner be re-established as they existed previous to whatever, on account of his direct or indirect the date of the said Treaty.

participation in the political, civil, or military ART. II. His Imperial and Royal Apostolic events that have taken place in Poland at Majesty shall possess, in full property and any period. All actions, prosecutions, or sovereignty, the salt-mines of Wieliczka, and suits, shall be considered as at an end, se the territory belonging to them.

questrations and provisional confiscations ART. ALI. The Thalweg of the Vistula shall be taken off, and any act proceeding shall separate Gallicia from the territory of upon such grounds, shall not be followed up. the free town of Cracow. It shall also form ART. IX. From these general regulations the frontier between Gallacia and that part of on the subject of confiscations are excepted the ancient Duchy of Warsaw united to the all those cases in which edicts or sentences, dominions of his Majesty the Emperor of all finally pronounced, have already been fully the Russias, as far as the environs of the town executed, and have not been annulled by of Zawichost. The land frontier from Zawi- subsequent events. chost to the Bug shall be determined by the ART. X. The condition of a subject of both line designated in the Treaty of Vienna of Governments, as far as property is concerned, 1809, with such modifications as, by common shall be acknowledged and maintained. consent, it may be thought necessary to intro- ART. XI. Every individual who possesses duce. The frontier from the Bug, shall be property under more than one Government re-established on this side, between the two shall be obliged, in the course of a year, empires, such as it was before the said Treaty. dating from the day of the ratification of the

ART. IV. The city of Cracow, as well as present Treaty, to make the declaration of the territory designated in the additional his settled abode, in writing, before the maTreaty, signed in common by the Courts of | gistrate of the nearest city or town, or before Russia, Austria, and Prussia, are declared free the Commander of the nearest district, or and independent.

before the nearest civil authority in the ART. V. The Duchy of Warsaw, excepting country that he may have chosen for his rethe parts which have been otherwise disposed sidence. This declaration, which the above of, in virtue of the above Articles, and by the Magistrate or other authority is to transTreaty signed the same day between their mit to the superior authority of the province, Majestics the Emperor of Russia and the renders him, as to his person and family, exKing of Prussia, is united to the empire of clusively the subject of the sovereign in whose Russia, to which it shall be irrevocably at states he has fixed his abode. tached by its constitution, and be possessed ART. XII. With respect to minors, or by his Majesty the Emperor of all the Rus- other persons who are under the care of guarsias, his heirs and successors, for ever. His dians, such guardians shall be obliged to Imperial Majesty reserves to himself the make the necessary declaration at the apright of giving to this State, enjoying a disa pointed time. tinct administration, such interior improve- ART. XIII. If any individual, possessing ment as he shall think proper. He shall add property under both Governments, shall have to his other titles that of Czar, King of Po- neglected, at the end of the prescribed term land, agreeably to the form established for the of a year, to make the declaration of his final titles attached to his other possessions.- abode, he shall be considered as a subject of The Poles, subjects, respectively, of the High the Power in whose States he last resided; Contracting Parties, shall obtain a represen- his silence, in this case, being considered as tation, and national institutions regulated con- a tacit declaration to that effect. formably to the system of political existence ART. XIV. Any individual, possessing prothat each of the governments to which they perty under both Governments, who shall belong shall think it useful and convenient have once made a declaration of his place of to grant them.

abode, shall be allowed, for the period of ART. VI. If the inhabitants and land- eight years, dating from the day of the ratifiowners of the countries separated in virtue of cation of the present Treaty, to settle under the present Treaty should wish to settle another Government, by making a new deunder another Government, they shall be al claration, and by producing the permission of lowed six years to dispose of their property, the Power, under whose government he moveable or immoveable, of whatever nature wishes to reside. it may be, to sell it, to quit the country, and ART. XV. Any individual, possessing proto export the produce thereof in specie, or in perty under both Governments, who has any other description of money, without any made a declaration of his place of abode, or impediment or drawback whatever.

who is considered as having made it, conART. VII. A complete, general, and spe- formably to the stipulations of Article XIII, cial amnesty shall be granted to all indivi- is not obliged, at any period whatever, to dispose of the possessions he may have in the both sides, and which may have been divided dominions of a sovereign of whom he is not a by the line of frontier. subject. He shall enjoy, with respect to this ART. XXI. The shepherds and drovers, property, all the rights attached to its pos- subjects of both Powers, shall continue to session. He shall be free to expend the re- enjoy the rights, immunities, and privileges, venues of these possessions in the country which have hitherto been granted to them; where he shall have chosen his abode, with and no obstacle shall prevent the daily interout sustaining any deduction whatever at the course on the frontiers between the neightime of their removal. He may sell these bouring people. (In German, Gränzverkehr). possessions, and take the value thereof, with- ART. XXII. The Domiciliary Court shall out being subject to any drawback.

also decide the differences between indiviART. XVI. The privileges specified in the duals which are brought forward by the Gopreceding Article, of removing property with vernor of these territories. But the Court of out diminution, shall extend only to the ef- the territory, in which the property in litigafects of which such individuals may be pos- tion is situated, shall cause the sentence to sessed at the time of the ratification of the be put into execution. This arrangement present Treaty.

shall be in force for the term of ten years, at ART. XVII. The same privileges are, how the end of which the two High Courts reserve ever, attached to every acquisition made to themselves the right of making any other under either Government, by reason of in- regulation that may be necessary. heritance, marriage, or gift of property, ART. XXIII. The sovereignty of the mills, which, at the date of the ratification of the manufactories, or foundaries established in present Treaty, belonged lastly to a proprie- the course of a river forming the frontier, tor under both Governments.

shall be exercised by the Sovereign in whose ART. XVIII. Should any individual, hav- territory the village or place is situated, to ing property under one of the two Govern- which these establishments belong. Should ments only, whether by inheritance, legacy, they constitute private property, the commisgift, or marriage, become possessed of pro- sion charged with the demarcation of the perty under the other Government, he shall land frontiers, shall determine, according to be considered as a proprietor under both Go- the principles of equity and their local situavernments, and, as such, obliged to make, tion, what shall be proper with respect to the within the prescribed time, the declaration of sovereignty. It is understood that new estahis fixed abode. This term of a year shall blishments of this description shall not be date from the day on which he shall have formed without the consent of the governproduced the legal proof of his acquisition. ments of the respective states, bordering on

ART. XIX. An individual possessing pro- the river. perty under both Governments, or his agent, ART. XXIV. The navigation of all the shall be allowed at all times to pass from one rivers and canals throughout the whole extent of his possessions to the other; for which of the ancient kingdom of Poland, (as it expurpose it is the pleasure of the two Courts isted before the year 1772) to their mouths, that the Governor of the nearest province as well in ascending as in descending, shali shall give the necessary passports, on the ap- be free, so as not to be interdicted to any inplication of the parties. These passports habitant of the Polish provinces, subject to shall be deemed a sufficient protection, from either the Russian or Austrian government. one Government to the other, and shall be The same liberty of passage and navigation equally respected on both sides.

is reciprocally permitted upon the streams or 'ART. XX. Possessors having estates di- | rivers which, not being navigable at present, vided by the frontier shall be treated, in re- may become so in future, as well as upon spect to those possessions, according to the canals which may hereafter be cut.

The most liberal principles. Individuals whose same principles shall be adopted in favour of property is thus circumstanced, their servants the above-mentioned subjects, in regard to and tenants, shall have the privilege of pass their frequenting ports at which they may ing and repassing from one part of the pos- arrive by the navigation of the said rivers and session, so divided by the frontier, to the canals. other, with their implements of husbandry, ART. XXV. The tonnage and towage duties their cattle, tools, &c. the difference of sove- shall be alike on both rivers; the watermen reignty being no impediment thereto. They shall nevertheless be obliged to conform to may also remove, from one place to the other, the regulations of the existing Police with retheirs crops, all articles of growth, their cat- gard to the mode of internal navigation. tle, and every article of manufacture, without ART. XXVI. In order to secure still furpassports, molestation, rentorimpostwhatever. ther this liberty of navigation, and to remove This privilege is, however, limited to articles every obstacle for the future, the two High the produce of the soil, or of industry, in the Contracting Parties have agreed to establish territory thus divided by the line of demarca-only one kind of duty on shipping, proportion. It likewise extends to such lands only tioned to the burthen or tonnage of the vessel, as belong to the same person, in the fixed or its lading Commissioners shall be named distance of one mile (fifteen to the degree) on on both sides to regulate the duty, which

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shall be at a moderate rate, and be solely ap- ART. XXXII. The four millions of Polish plied to maintaining the rivers and canals in forins, stipulated in Article 30, as a settlequestion, in a navigable state. This duty, ment in full on the part of the government once approved of by the two Courts, shall be of the duchy of Warsaw, shall be paid by that changed only by common consent. The government to the Austrian Imperial' treasame rule shall be observed with regard to sury, in specie, and in eight equal annual the Boards which shall regulate the collec- instalments of 500,000 Polish forins each; tion of the said duty. If, however, either of the first of these annual payments shall bethe two Contracting Powers should, at His come due the 12th (24th) June 1816, and the own expense, establish a new canal, the sub- last on the same day in 1824. Having, howjects of his Majesty the Emperor of all the ever, taken into consideration the actual state Russias shall never be subjected to higher of affairs, and the new exertions which cirduties on navigation than those of his Majesty cumstances may require, the High Contractthe Emperor of Austria. In this respect each | ing Parties have agreed, that if peace is not party shall be considered on a perfectequality. re-established at the precise time of the first

ART. XXVII. The Commissioners who payment becoming due, such first payment is shall be charged with the arrangements de to be deferred, and consequently the others termined in the above Articles, shall be progressively, so that the first payment shall named without delay. Their labours shall be take place six months after the ratification of finished, examined, and approved, within six the definitive Treaty of Peace. months at the latest, dating from the day of

ART. XXXIII. With respect to the new the ratification of the present Treaty.

debts, which bear date since the erection of ART. XXVIII. The two High Contract the duchy of Warsaw, his Imperial and Royal ing Parties, with the view of giving greater Apostolic Majesty undertakes to provide for scope to the commercial relations, especially them, in the proportion of one ninth part; it. between Brody and Odessa, and vice versá, being understood that the Court of Vienna have agreed to grant the most perfect liberty shall participate in the interest resulting from in favour of the transit of' merchandize, their liquidation, in the same proportion. throughout all parts of ancient Poland. The ART. XXXIV. Immediately after the sigduties to be collected on this account shall be nature of the present Treaty, a Commission as moderate as possible, and such as are levied shall be named, which shall assemble at on the merchants, or subjects of the most

Warsaw. It shall be composed of a proper favoured nations.

number of commissioners and assistants: its ART. XXIX. With the view also of en-object shall be; 1. To prepare an exact ba-couraging the import and export trade be- lance of what is due by foreign governments. tween the said provinces which constituted 2. To regulate, reciprocally, between the the ancient kingdom of Poland, it has been contracting Parties, the accounts of their mutually agreed that the two Courts shall respective claims. 3. To settle the claims of name Commissioners, who are to be charged subjects against their goveruments. In short, with examining the regulations and tarifs now to adjust whatever relates to subjects of this in force, to present plans, tending to regulate nature. whatever is relative to this commerce, and

ART. XXXV. As soon as the Commission especially to prevent all kinds of abuse, or mentioned in the preceding Article shall have undue interference on the part of the customs. entered upon its duties, it shall appoint a

ART. XXX. His Imperial and Royal Apos- committee, for the purpose of proceeding imtolic Majesty having issued from his general mediately to the necessary arrangement for fund of state debts, (universal Stadts Schul- the restitution of all securities, whether condencassa) bonds for a sum equal to the quota sisting of money, or of deeds and documents, of the old debts of the King and the Republic which the subjects of one of the Contracting of Poland, with which he had been burthened, Parties may have given, and which may be in consequence of the Convention of the 15th found in the states of the other. The same (261h) January 1797, and as these bonds are

rule shall be observed in all judiciary depôts henceforth to remain at his charge, with all which may have been transferred from one the arrears of, and present interest ; it is province to tie other. They shall be restored agreed between the High Contracting Parties, to the jurisdictions of the governments to that the government of the duchy of Warsaw, which they belong. under the guarantee of his Majesty the Em

ART. XXXVI. All documents, plans, peror of all the Russias, shall be bound, on maps or deeds whatever, which may be found this account, to make good to the Court of in the archives of either of the Contracting Vienna, by way of a settlement in full, the Parties, shall be mutually restored to the suim of four millions of Polish florins.

power whose territory they concern. If a ART. XXXI. On the other hand, his Im- document of this kind be of common interest, perial and Royal Apostolic Majesty fully the party who is in possession of it shall keep renounces every other pretension relative to it, but a certified and legalized copy shall be loans and debts, of whatsoever nature they given to the other. may be, which have been, or which might be ART. XXXVII. The acts of administraeither assigned to, mortgaged upon, or regis- tion shall be separated : each of the Contered against the ceded territory.

tracting Parties shall receive the part which | Congress of Vienna.—The national spirit, the concerns his states. The same rule shall be advantages of commerce, the arrangements observed with regard to mortgage books and which may restore stability to the adminisdeeds. In the case provided for in the tration, regularity in the finances, public and preceding Article, a legalized copy shall be individual prosperity in the provinces recently given.

obtained, have all been taken into considera ART. XXXVIII. A military and civil Com- tion, and their Imperial and Royal Majesties, mission shall be immediately appointed, to in order to complete this salutary work, to construct an exact map of the new frontier, an- settle and fix definitively the limits of their nexing the topographical description thereto, states, to agree on all the stipulations which to place the boundary posts, and describe the can insure their happiness, have named for angles of its situation, so that in no case the their Plenipotentiaries, viz.: His Majesty the least doubt, dispute or difficulty may arise, if, Emperor of all the Russias, the Sieur Andrew, in the course of time, it should be wished to Count de Rasoumoffsky, his Privy Counsellor, replace a boundary mark, destroyed by any Knight of the Orders of St. Andrew, and of accident.

St. Alexander Newsky, Grand Cross of the ART. XXXIX. It is agreed between the Order of St. Wolodimir, and his First Plenitwo High Contracting Parties, that the con- potentiary at the Congress, and his Majesty tract for the purchase of 500,000 quintals of the King of Prussia, the Prince Hardenberg, salt, shall be mutually binding, for the term his Chancellor of State, Knight of the Grand of five years; at the end of which period it Orders of the Black Eagle and of the Red may be renewed, on the conditions which Eagle, of St. John of Jerusalem, and of the shall then be agreed upon.

Iron Cross of Prussia, of the Orders of St. ART. XL. Immediately after the ratifi- Andrew, St. Alexander Newsky, and of St. cation of the present Treaty, the necessary Ann of the first class of Russia, Grand Cross orders shall be sent to the commanders of of the Royal Order of St. Stephen of Hungary, troops, and the competent authorities, for the Grand Eagle of the Legion of Honour, Knight evacuation of the provinces which are restored of the Order of St. Charles of Spain, of the to his Majesty the Emperor of Austria, and Supreme Order of the Annunciation, of the for the restitution of the country, to Commis- Seraphim of Sweden, of the Order of the sioners, who shall be appointed for this pur- Elephant of Denmark, of the Golden Eagle pose; and this evacuation shall be effected so of Wurtemburg, and of several others, his that it may be completed in six weeks, dating First Plenipotentiary at the Congress; Who, from the day of the exchange of the ratifica- after having exchanged their full powers, and tions of the present Treaty.

found them in good and due form, have ART. XLI. The present Treaty shall be agreed on the following Articles : these Arratified, and the ratifications exchanged in six ticles having been negociated in common days. In faith of which the respective Pleni- with the Treaties between Russia, Austria, potentiaries have signed it, and have affixed and Prussia respectively, are inserted in alí thereunto the seals of their arms. Done at their form and tenor, excepting the modifican Vienna the 21st April, (3d May) 1815. tions which are contained in that concluded Signed (L. S.) The Count de Rasoumoffsky. jesty, occasioned by the particular state of

with his Imperial and Royal Apostolic Ma(L. S.) The Prince de Metternich. affairs.

ART. I. The part of the duchy of WarACT, No. II.—Treaty between Russia and

saw which his Majesty the King of Prussia is Prussia of the 21st April (3d May) 1815. to possess, in full sovereignty and property, In the Name of the Most Holy and Undi- of Grand Duchy of Posen, shall be comprised

for himself and his successors, under the title vided Trinity. .

within the following line of demarcation :His Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, Commencing from the frontier of Eastern and his Majesty the King of Prussia, animated Prussia, at the village of Neuhoff, the new with the desire of cementing more closely the limit shall follow the frontier of Western Pruslies of friendship which have united their sia, as it has existed from 1772 to the Peace arms and their subjects in a difficult and of Tilsit, as far as the village of Leibitsch, sanguinary war, the sacred object of which which shall belong to the duchy of Warsaw; was to restore peace to Europe and tranquillity from thence a line shall be drawn, which, to nations, have judged it expedient, in order leaving Kompania, Grabowiec, and Szczytno, to fulfil their immediate engagements, and to to Prussia, passes the Vistula near the latter put an end to all uncertainties, to fix' defini- place, on the other side of the river, which tively, by a solemn Treaty, every thing which falls, opposite Szczytno, into the Vistula, as concerns the arrangements relative to the far as the ancient limit of the district of the duchy of Warsaw; as well as to settle the Netze, near Gros-Opoczko, in such a manner state of affairs resulting therefrom, by com- that śluzewo shall belong to the duchy, and bined negotiations, founded upon the prin- Przybranowa, Hollander, and Maciejewo, to ciples of a just balance of power and division Prussia. From Gros-Opoczko it shall pass of forces, discussed and agreed upon at the through Chlewiska, which shall remain to

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