FRANCE. Vol. I. Ch. II. belonging to His Most Christian Majesty, for offences committed, or for debts contracted within the said limits, and who shall take refuge out of the same, shall be delivered up to the chiefs of the said settlements and factories; and all Europeans and others whosoever, against whom judicial proceedings as aforesaid shall be instituted, without the said limits, and who shall take refuge within the same, shall be delivered up by the chiefs of the said settlements and factories, upon demand being made of them by the British Government. Definitive Treaty between Great Britain and France. Signed at Paris, 20th November 1815. 10. For the purpose of rendering this agreement permanent, the high Contracting Parties hereby engage, that no alteration shall be made in the conditions and stipulations in the foregoing Articles, without the mutual consent of His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and of His Most Christian Majesty. 11. The present Convention shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at London in the space of one month from the date hereof, or sooner if possible. In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed it, and have thereunto affixed the seals of their arms. Done at London this 7th day of March, in the year of our Lord 1815. Signed Signed BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, (L.S.) LE COMTE DE LA CHATRE, (L. S.) 7. In all countries which shall change Sovereigns, as well in virtue of the present Treaty, as of the arrangements which are to be made in consequence thereof, a period of six years from the date of the exchange of the ratifications shall be allowed to the inhabitants, natives, or foreigners, of whatever condition and nation they may be, to dispose of their property, if they should think fit so to do, and to retire to whatever country they may choose. 8. All the dispositions of the Treaty of Paris of the 30th of May 1814, relative to the countries ceded by that Treaty, shall equally apply to the several territories and districts ceded by the present Treaty. 9. The high Contracting Parties having caused representation to be made of the different claims arising out of the non-execution of the 19th and following Articles of the Treaty of the 30th of May 1814, as well as of the Additional Articles of that Treaty, signed between Great Britain and France, desiring to render more efficacious the stipulations made thereby, and having determined by two separate Conventions, the line to be pursued on each side for that purpose, the said two Conventions, as annexed to the present Treaty, shall, in order to secure the complete execution of the above-mentioned Articles, have the same force and effect as if the same were inserted, word for word, herein. 10. All prisoners taken during the hostilities, as well as all hostages which may have been carried off or given, shall be restored in the shortest time possible. The same shall be the case with respect to the prisoners taken previously to the Treaty of the 30th of May 1814, and who shall not already have been restored. 11. The Treaty of Paris of the 30th of May 1814, and the final Act of the Congress at Vienna of the 9th of June 1815, are confirmed, and shall be maintained in all such of their enactments which shall not have been modified by the Articles of the present Treaty. 12. The present Treaty, with the Conventions annexed thereto, shall be ratified in one Act, and the ratifications thereof shall be exchanged in the space of two months, or sooner if possible. In witness whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same, Vel. I. Ch. II. and have affixed thereunto the seals of their arms. Done at Paris, this 20th day of November, in the year of our Lord 1815. Signed CASTLEREAGH, (L. S.) WELLINGTON, (L.S.) Signed RICHELIEU, (L S.) FRANCE. The high Contracting Powers, sincerely desiring to give effect to the mea- Additional sures on which they deliberated at the Congress of Vienna, relative to the Article. complete and universal abolition of the Slave Trade, and having, each in their respective dominions, prohibited, without restriction, their colonies and subjects from taking any part whatever in this traffic, engage to renew conjointly their efforts, with the view of securing final success to those principles which they proclaimed in the declaration of the 4th (8th) of February 1815 (1), and of concerting without loss of time, through their ministers at the Courts of London and of Paris, the most effectual measures for the entire and definitive abolition of a commerce so odious and so strongly condemned by the laws of religion and of nature. The present additional Article shall have the same force and effect as if it were inserted, word for word, in the Treaty signed this day. It shall be included in the ratification of the said Treaty. In witness whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have affixed thereunto the seals of their arms. Done at Paris, this 20th day of November, in the year of our Lord 1815. WELLINGTON, (L.S.) Great Britain 1. The subjects of His Britannic Majesty having claims upon the French Convention Government, who, in contravention of the Second Article of the Treaty of (No. 7.) between Commerce of 1786 (2), and since the 1st of January 1793, have suffered on that account, by the confiscations or sequestrations decreed in France, shall, in conformity to the Fourth Additional Article of the Treaty of Paris of the year 1814, themselves, their heirs or assigns, subjects of His Britannic Majesty, be indemnified and paid, when their claims shall have been admitted as legitimate, and when the amount of them shall have been ascertained, according to the forms and under the conditions hereafter stipulated. 1815. Concluded in conformity to the 9th Article of the Principal Treaty, relative to the examina2. The subjects of His Britannic Majesty, holders of permanent stock tion and liquida. under the French Government, and who, on that account have, since the tion of the claims 1st of January, 1793, suffered by the confiscations or sequestrations decreed of the subjects of in France, shall themselves, their heirs or assigns, subjects of His Britannic His Britannic Majesty, be inscribed in the great book of the consolidated debt of France, Majesty against for an amount of stock equal to the amount of the stock they possessed of France. (1) See Declaration, page (2) EXTRACT from the Treaty of Na. vigation and Commerce between Great Britain and France. Signed at Versailles, 26th September 1786. "2. For the future security of commerce and friendship between the subjects of their said Majesties, and to the end that this good correspondence may be preserved from all interruption and disturbance, it is concluded and agreed, that if, at any time, there should arise any misunderstanding, breach of friendship, or rupture between the Crowns of their Majesties, which God forbid! (which rupture shall not be deemed to exist until the recalling or sending home of the respective Ambassadors parties residing in the dominions of the other, the Government Vol. I. Ch. II. prior to the laws and decrees of sequestration or of confiscation abovementioned. FRANCE. In the cases in which the edicts or decrees constituting the above-mentioned stock shall have added thereto profitable conditions, or favourable chances, account shall be had thereof in favour of the creditors, and an addition, founded upon a just valuation of such advantages, shall be made to the amount of the stock to be inscribed. The new inscriptions shall bear date and bear interest from the 22d of March 1816. Such subjects of His Britannic Majesty who, by receiving their annuities at a third, after the 30th of September 1797, have submitted themselves by their own act to the laws existing upon this subject, are excepted from the above-mentioned dispositions. 3. Such of the subjects of His Britannic Majesty, or their heirs or assigns, subjects of His Britannic Majesty, as possessed life annuities from the French Government before the decrees of confiscation or sequestration, shall equally be inscribed upon the great book of the life annuities of France, for the same sum of life annuities as they enjoyed in 1793. Such of the subjects of His Britannic Majesty, however, as have changed the nature of their claims, by receiving their annuities at a third, and thus by their own act have submitted themselves to the laws existing upon this subject, shall be excepted from the above dispositions. The new inscriptions shall bear date and bear interest from the 22d of March 1816. Prior to the delivery of the new inscriptions, the claimants shall be bound to produce certificates, according to the usual forms, declaring that the persons in whose names their Life Annuities were constituted are still alive. With respect to those of the above-mentioned subjects of His Britannic Majesty possessing life annuities in the names of persons who are dead, they shall be bound to produce certificates of demise, in the usual forms, stating the period of the decease; and in that case, the Annuities shall be paid up to such period. 4. Such arrears of the perpetual and life annuities as shall have been liquidated and allowed, and as shall be due up to the 22d of March next exclusively, save the cases of exception specified in the Second and Third Articles, shall be inscribed in the great book of the public debt of France, at the rate which shall be the medium price between par and the current market price of the day, at the date of the signature of the present Treaty. The inscriptions shall bear date and bear interest from the 22d of March 1816, inclusively. 5. In order to determine the capital due on immoveable property which belonged to subjects of His Britannic Majesty, to their heirs or assigns, equally subjects of His Britannic Majesty, and which was sequestered, confiscated and sold, the following process shall be had : The said subjects of His Britannic Majesty shall be obliged to produce, 1st, the deed of purchase proving their proprietorship; 2ndly, the acts proving the facts of the sequestration, and of the confiscation against themselves, their ancestors or assignors, subjects of His Britannic Majesty. In default however of all proofs in writing, considering the circumstances under which the confiscations and sequestrations took place, and those which have since arisen, such other proof shall be admitted as the Commissioners of liquidation hereafter mentioned shall judge sufficient in lieu thereof. The French Government further engages to facilitate by every means, the production of all titles and proofs serving to substantiate the claims to which the present Article refers, and the Commissioners shall be authorised to make FRANCE. all search, which they shall judge necessary to arrive at such information, Vol. I. Ch. II. and to obtain the production of such titles and proofs; they shall also be empowered to examine upon oath, in case of need, such persons employed in the public offices, as may have it in their power to point them out, or to furnish them. The value of the said immoveable property shall be determined and fixed by the production of an extract of the " Matrice," of the " Roles," of the "Contribution foncière," for the year 1791, and at the rate of twenty times the revenue mentioned in the said " Roles." If the "Matrices" should no longer exist, and that it should therefore be impossible to produce the extracts, the claimants shall be authorised to furnish such other proofs, as shall be admitted by the commission of liquidation mentioned in the following Articles. The capital thus liquidated and allowed shall be inscribed upon the great book of the public debt of France, at the rate which has been fixed in Art. 4. for the inscription of the arrears of the annuities; and the inscriptions shall bear date and shall bear interest from the 22d of March next, inclusively. The arrears due upon the said capital from the period of its sequestration, shall be calculated at the rate of four per cent. per annum, without deduction, and the whole amount of those arrears up to the 22d of March next, exclusively, shall be inscribed in the great book of the public debt of France, at the rate above-mentioned, and shall bear interest from the 22d of March next, inclusively. 6. In order to fix the capital as well as the arrears which shall be due to such of the subjects of His Britannic Majesty, whose moveable property in France has been sequestered, confiscated and sold, or to their heirs or assigns, subjects of His Britannic Majesty, the following process shall be had : The claimants shall be obliged to produce, 1st, the procès verbal containing the inventory of the moveable effects seized or sequestered; 2dly, the procès verbal of the sale of the said effects, or in default of proofs in writing, such other proof as the respective Commissioners of the two Powers shall judge sufficient in lieu thereof, according to the principles established in the preceding Article; the French Government engaging in this respect to give the same facilities, and the Commissioners are authorised to make the same search, and to take the same measures, as have been detailed in the foregoing Article, with respect to immoveable property. The amount of the stock arising from the seizures and sales of the moveable property shall be thus determined; regard being always had to those periods during which paper money was in circulation, and to the fictitious augmentation of prices resulting therefrom. The capital liquidated and allowed shall be inscribed upon the great book of the public debt of France, at the rate which has been fixed by the preceding Articles, and the inscriptions shall bear date and shall bear interest from the 22d of March next, inclusively. The arrears liquidated and allowed, due upon the said capital from the period at which the claimant was deprived of the possession of his or her moveable property, shall be calculated at the rate of three per cent. per annum, without deduction, and the whole amount of the said arrears up to the 22d of March next, exclusively, shall be inscribed upon the great book of the public debt of France, at the rate above-mentioned, and shall bear interest from the 22d of March next, inclusively. The vessels, ships, cargoes, and other moveable property which shall have been seized and confiscated, either to the profit of France, or to the profit of the subjects of His Most Christian Majesty, in conformity to the laws of war, and the prohibitory decrees, shall not be admitted to the liquidation, nor to Vol. I. Ch. II. 7. The claims of the subjects of His Britannic Majesty, arising front the different loans made by the French Government, or from mortgages upon property sequestered, seized and sold by the said Government, or any other claim whatsoever, not comprised in the preceding Articles, and which would be admissible according to the terms of the fourth Additional Article of the Treaty of Paris of 1814, and of the present Convention, shall be liquidated and fixed, adopting with respect to each claim, the modes of admission, of verification, and of liquidation, which shall be conformable to their respective natures, and which shall be defined and fixed by the mixed Commission mentioned in the following Articles, according to the principles laid down in the above Articles. These claims thus liquidated, shall be paid in inscriptions in the great book at the rate above-mentioned, and the inscriptions shall bear date and shall bear interest from the 22d of March next, inclusively. In the cases wherein the Edicts or Decrees constituting the claims abovementioned shall have assured to the creditors the reimbursement of the capitals, and other profitable conditions or favourable chances, account shall be had thereof to the benefit of the claimants, as detailed above in Art. 2. 8. The amount of the inscriptions arising to each creditor from his claims liquidated and allowed, shall be divided by the Commissioners of deposit, into five equal portions: the first of which shall be delivered immediately after liquidation, the second three months after, and so on with respect to the other portions, every three months; the creditors will nevertheless receive the interests of the whole of their debts liquidated, and allowed from the 22d of March 1816, inclusive, as soon as their respective claims shall have been allowed and admitted. 9. A capital, producing an interest of 3,500,000 francs, commencing from the 22d of March 1816, shall be inscribed as a fund of guarantee, in the great book of the public debt of France, in the name of two or four Commissioners, the one half English and the other half French, chosen by their respective Governments. These Commissioners shall receive the said interest from the 22d of March 1816, every six months; they shall hold it in deposit, without having the power of negotiating it, and they shall further be bound to place the amount of it in the public funds, and to receive the accumulated and compound interest of the same, for the profit of the creditors. In case the 3,500,000 francs of interest shall be insufficient, there shall be delivered to the said Commissioners inscriptions for larger sums, until their amount shall be equal to what may be necessary to pay all the debts mentioned in the present Act. These additional inscriptions, if there shall be any, shall be delivered, bearing interest from the same period as the 3,500,000 francs, above stipulated, and shall be administered by the Commissioners, according to the same principles, so that the claims which shall remain to be paid, shall be paid with the same proportion of accumulated and compound interest, as if the fund of guarantee had been from the first sufficient; and as soon as all the payments due to the creditors shall have been made, the surplus of the interest fund not employed, with the proportion of accumulated and compound interest which shall belong thereto, shall, if there be any, be given up to the disposal of the French Government. 10. In proportion as the liquidation shall be effected, and as the claims shall be allowed, distinction being made between the sums representing the capitals, and the sums arising from the arrears or interest, the commission of liquidation, which shall be mentioned in the following Articles, shall deliver to the creditors, allowed to be such, two Certificates for the value of the whole Inscription to be made, bearing interest from the 22d of March 1816, inclusive; one of the Certificates relating to the capital of the debt, and |