the first year; on condition of the difference being made up in the subsequent years of the occupation. ART. III. France engages equally to provide for the keeping up of the Fortifications and of the buildings of the Military and Civil Administrations, as well as for the arming and provisioning the Fortresses which, in virtue of the Fifth Article of the Treaty of this day, are to remain as a deposit in the hands of the Allied troops. These respective services, which are to be regulated upon the principles adopted by the French Administration of the War Department, shall be executed upon demand, addressed to the French government by the Commander in Chief of the Allied Troops, with whom some plan shall be agreed upon for ascertaining what may be needful, and concerting the measures necessary to remove all difficulties which may arise, and for accomplishing the object of this stipulation in a manner equally satisfactory to the interests of the respective parties. The French government will take such measures as it shall judge to be the most effectual, for securing the accomplishment of the different services stated in this and in the preceding Article; and will concert to that effect with the Commander in Chief of the Allied Troops. It is, however, well understood, that the Material belonging to the Engineer and Artillery Departments, as well as such Articles of Military Equipment as do not properly belong to those Fortresses, shall be withdrawn from them, and shall be transported to such places as the French government shall think fit, provided those places are situated without the line occupied by the Allied Troops, and without the Districts in which it is agreed not to leave any troops either Allied or French. If any infraction of the above stipulations should come to the knowledge of the Commander in Chief of the Allied Armies, he shall make his representations on the subject to the French government, which engages to do what is right thereupon. The Fortresses above mentioned being, at this moment, unprovided with Garrisons, the French government may place therein, as soon as it shall think fit, the number of troops fixed as ART. IV. In conformity to the Fifth Arti- above, apprizing always before-hand the Comcle of the Principal Treaty, the Military Limander in Chief of the Allied Troops, in to be occupied by the Allied Troops, shall ex- order to avoid any difficulty and delay which tend along the Frontiers which separate the the French troops might experience in their Departments of the Pas de Calais, of the march. North of the Ardennes, of the Meuse, of the Moselle, of the Lower Rhine, and of the Upper Rhine, from the interior of France. It is further agreed, that neither the Allied Troops nor the French Troops, shall occupy (except it be for particular reasons, and by common consent) the Territories and Districts hereafter named, id est. In the Department of the Somme, all the Country north of that River, from Ham, to where it falls into the Sea; in the Department of l'Aisne, the Districts of St. Quentin, Vervins and Laôn; in the Departments of the Marne, those of Rheims, St. Ménéhould, and Vitry; in the Department of the Upper Marne, those of St. Dizier and Joinville; in the Department of the Meurthe, those of Toul, Dieuze, Sarrebourg and Blamont; in the Department of the Vosges, those of St. Diez, Brugères and Remiremont. The District of Lure, in the Department of the Upper Saône; and that of St. Hyppolite in the Department of the Doules. Notwithstanding the occupation, by the Allies, of the portion of territory fixed by the Principal Treaty, and by the present Convention, his Most Christian Majesty may, in the towns situated within the territory occupied, maintain garrisons, the number of which, how ever, shall not exceed what is laid down in the following enumeration: At Calais 1,000 men, Gravelines 500, Bergues 500, St. Omer 1,500, (VOL. XXXII.) ART. V. The Military Command in the whole extent of the Departments which shall remain occupied by the Allied Troops, shall belong to the General in Chief of those troops; it is, however, distinctly understood, that it shall not extend to the Fortresses which the French Troops are to occupy, in virtue of the Fourth Article of the present Convention, nor to a rayon of a Thousand Toises around each of these places. ART. VI. The Civil Administration, the Administration of Justice, and the collection of Taxes and Contributions of all sorts, shall remain in the hands of the agents of his Majesty the King of France. The same shall be the case with respect to the Customs. They shall remain in their present state, and the Commanders of the Allied Troops shall throw no obstacle in the way of the measures to be taken by the officers employed in that service, to prevent frauds: they shall even' give them, in case of need, succour and as sistance. ART. VII. To prevent all abuses which might affect the regulations of the Customs, the Clothing and Equipment, and other necessary articles destined for the Allied Troops, shall not be allowed to enter. except they be furnished with a Certificate of Origin, and in pursuance of a communication to be made by the Commanding Officers of the different corps to the General in Chief (s) 1 of the Allied Army, who will, on his part, cause information to be given thereof to the French government, who will, in consequence thereof, issue the proper orders to their officers employed in the administration of the Customs. ART. VIII. The service of the Gen-d'Armerie being acknowledged as necessary to the maintenance of order and public tranquillity, shall continue, as hitherto, in the Countries occupied by the Allied Troops. ART. IX The Allied Troops, with the exception of those that are to form the Army of Occupation, shall evacuate the territory of France in twenty-one days after the signature of the Principal Treaty. The territories which, according to that Treaty, are to be ceded to the Allies, as well as the Fortresses of Landau and Sarre-Louis, shall be delivered up by the French Authorities and troops, in ten days from the date of the signature of the Treaty. Those places shall be given up in the state in which they were on the 20th of September last. Commissioners shall be named on both sides, to ascertain and declare that state; and to deliver and receive respectively the Artillery, the Military Stores, Plans, Models, and Archives belonging as well to the said places, as to the different Districts ceded by France accordingly to the Treaty of this day. Commissioners shall also be named to examine and ascertain the state of those places still occupied by the French troops, and which, according to the Fifth Article of the Principal Treaty, are to be held in deposit, for a certain time, by the Allies. These places shall also be delivered up to the Allied Troops in ten days from the date of the signature of the Treaty. Commissioners shall also be named by the French Government, on one part, and by the General commanding in Chief, the Allied Troops destined to remain in France, on the other; also by the General commanding the Allied Troops which are at present in possession of the Fortresses of Avesnes, Landrecy, Maubeuge, Rocroy, Givet, Montmedy, Longwy, Mezières, and Sedan, to ascertain and declare the state of those places, and of the Military Stores, Maps, Plans, Models, &c. which they shall contain at the moment which shall be considered as that of the occupation, in virtue of the Treaty. The Allied Powers engage to restore, at the expiration of the temporary occupation, all the places named in the Fifth Article of the Principal Treaty, in the state in which they shall have been found at the time of that occupation, save and except the Damages which may have been caused by time, and which the French Government should not have provided against by the necessary repairs. Done at Paris, this 20th day of November, 1815. No. V.—ADDITIONAL ARTICLE to the Military Convention, signed at Paris the 20th of November 1815. The High Contracting Parties having agreed, by Article 5, of the Treaty of this day, to occupy for a certain period, with an Allied Army, Military Positions in France, and being desirous of anticipating all that might hazard the order and discipline which it is so important to maintain in that army, it is determined upon by the present Additional Article, that every Deserter, who, from either of the corps of the said army, should go over to the French side, shall immediately be arrested by the French Authorities, and delivered up to the nearest Commander of the Allied Troops, in like manner as all Deserters from the French Troops, who might come over towards the Allied Army, shall be immediately delivered up to the nearest French Commandant. The tenor of this Article is to apply equally to such Deserters from either side who may have forsaken their colours previously to the signature of the Treaty; the same to be without delay restored and delivered up to the respective corps to which they may belong. The present additional Article shall have the same force and validity as if it were inserted, word for word, in the Military Convention of this day. In faith whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed it, and have affixed thereunto the seals of their arms. Done at Paris, the 20th Nov. 1815. (Signed) (L. S.) Castlereagh, (L. S.) Wellington. (Signed) (L. S.) Richelieu, No. VI. TARIF annexed to the Convention relative to the occupation of a military line in France by an Allied Army. NOTE from the Allied Ministers to the Duke de Richelieu, on the nature and extent of the Powers, attached to the command of the Duke of Wellington; Paris, Nov. 20th, 1815. The Allied Sovereigns having entrusted Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington with the command in chief of that portion of their troops which, by Art. V. of the Treaty concluded this day with France, is to remain in that country for a certain number of years, the undersigned Ministers of the Cabinets, &c. &c. &c. think it advisable to come to an understanding with his Excellency the Duke de Richlieu upon the nature and extent of the powers attached to this command. Although chiefly led to the adoption of this measure by motives of consideration for the security and welfare of their own subjects, and far from having the intention of employing their troops in the maintenance of the police or interior administration of France, or of interfering with or shackling the free exercise of the royal authority in that country, 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. (Signed) Castlereagh. Hardenberg. Metternich. the Allied Sovereigns have, nevertheless, in consideration of the high interest which induces them to strengthen the authority of the legitimate Sovereign promised to his Most Christian Majesty, to support him with their arms against all revolutionary convulsion, tending to overturn by force the state of things actually established, and which would thus threaten anew the tranquillity of Europe. But not forgetting that under the variety of shapes in which the revolutionary spirit might still show itself in France there might be doubts as to what cases might require the interference of a foreign force, and being well aware of the difficulty of giving precise instructions, applicable to each particular case, the Allied Sovereigns have thought it most advisable to confide to the known prudence and discretion of the Duke of Wellington, the determination of the time and mode in which it would be proper to employ the troops under his orders, in a full confidence that he will in no case act without having previously concerted his measures with his Majesty the King of France, and that he will acquaint, as soon as possible, the Allied Sovereigns with the motives which have engaged him to take his determinations. And, as in order to assist the Duke of Wellington, in the choice of his dispositions, it will be important that he should be accurately informed of the events which take place in France, the ministers of the four Allied Courts accredited to his Most Christian Majesty have received orders to keep up jointly a regular correspondence with his grace, and to be at the same time the regular channel of communication between the French government and the Commander in Chief of the Allied troops, for the purpose of forwarding to the French government those communications which the Duke of Wellington may have to address to it, and also transmit to the Field Marshal those views and applications which the Court of France might wish he should receive. 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 (Signed) Capo D'Istria. Rasoumoffsky. Wessenberg. No.VII.-CONVENTION between Great Britain and France, concluded in conformity to the Ninth Article of the Principal Treaty, relative to the Examination and Liquidation of the Claims of the Subjects of his Britannic Majesty against the Government of France. ART. I. The subjects of his Britannic Majesty, having Claims upon the French Government, who, in contravention of the Second Article of the Treaty of Commerce of 1786, 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. ART. II. The subjects of his Britannic Majesty, holders of permanent Stock under the French Government, and who on that account have, since the first of January 1793, suffered by the Confiscations or Sequestrations decreed in France, shall themselves, their heirs or assigns, subjects of his Britan nic Majesty, be inscribed in the Great Book of the consolidated Debt of France, for an amount of Stock equal to the amount of the Stock they possessed prior to the Laws and Decrees of Sequestration or of Confiscation above mentioned. In the cases in which the Edicts or Decrees constituting the abovementioned 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 evaluation 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 22nd 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 exempted from the above-mentioned dispositions. ART. III. 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 Seques tration, 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 22nd of March, 1816. Prior to the delivery of the new Inscriptions, the claimants shall be bound to produce certificates, according to the usual form, 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. ART. IV. Such arrears of the Perpetual and Life Annuities as shall have been liquidated and allowed, and as shall be due up to the 22nd of March next exclusively, save the cases of exemption 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 22nd of March, 1816, inclusively. ART. V. 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 authorized to make all search, which they shall judge necessary to arrive at such information, 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 Articies 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 the fourth Article for the inspection of the arrears of the annuities; and the Inscriptions shall bear date and shall bear interest from the 22nd 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 22nd 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 22nd of March next inclusively. ART. VI. 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. 2ndly, 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 authorized 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 perio:ls 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 22nd of March next inclusively.-The arrears liquidated and allowed, due upon the said capital from the period at which the claimant an deprived of the possession of his or her moves able property, shall be calculated at the rate of March 1816, every six months; they shal of three per cent. per annum, without deduc-hold it in deposit, without having the power tion, and the whole amount of the said arrears up to the 22nd 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 22nd 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 the payments mentioned in the present Article: ART. VII. The claims of the subjects of his Britannic Majesty, arising from 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 22nd 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 Article II. ART. VIII. 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. ART. IX. 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 negociating 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. ART. X. 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 the other relating to the arrears, or interest liquidated up to the 22d of March 1816 exclusively. ART. XI. The certificates above mentioned shall be delivered over to the Commissioners holding the annuities in deposit, who shall check the same, in order that they be immediately inscribed into the Great Book of the Public Debt of France, to the debit of the deposit fund, and to the credit of the new creditors, acknowledged as such, bearers of the said certificates, care being taken to distin guish the Perpetual from the Life Annuities. And the said creditors shall be authorised from the day of the definitive liquidation of their claims, to receive, for their profit, from the said Commissioners the interests which are due to them, together with the accumulated and compound interests, if there be any, as well as such portion of the capital as shall have been paid, according to what has been regulated by the preceding Articles. ART. XII. A further delay shall be allowed, after the signature of the present Convention, to the subjects of his Britannic Majesty, who shall have claims upon the French Government, for the matters specified in the present |