The National Register. — London, England, 1815-12-03 00:00:00

so....or...rwrorrveselartirrnsolvliXet; Fig.lllslr'.llNlllll.WWFM°..ffjWilffliffililffiWg°ol. DEC. S. dr • ~~~ THE NATIONAL REGISTER• Art. 7. 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 Government. or any other claim whatsoever, not eionveised in the preecdine articles, and which would be admissible according to the terms of the fourth additional article of the Treaty of Paris. tale, and of the prevent Convention. shall be liquidated and fixed, adopting with respect to each claim, the modes of admission, of verification, and of liquidation, which s h i m b e conformable to rheir respective natures, and which shall be defined and fixed by tile mixed Commission mentioned in the following articles, according to the prin ciples laid down in the above articles, These vlairns thus lignidated, shall he paid in inscriptions in the (treat Rnok at the rate ii i,,,,, e „, neß ti nne d, and the inscriptions shall bear date, and shall hear in terest from the 23d of 'March nest, incluei%ely. in the cases wherein r.e edicts nr (lei revs constituting the claims abgve-men tioned, shall have assured to the creditors the re-iinhorseinent of the capitals, and otter profitable conditions or (Avowable chances, account shall be had thereof to the hen efil of the elainr.ints. as detailed al , eve, in A rticle 2. Art. P. The amount of the inscriptions a►ising to each creditor from his claims heyiki.ited and allowed; shall be divided by the Commissioners of Deposit, into five crvril portions: the fist of which shall be delivered 411 meiliately after liquidation, the st curia three muhtlis after, and so on %%fig' respect to the other portions, every three months ; the creditors vUI nevertheless, receive the interects of the whok of t h e i r d e b ' , 1 4 , 1 i,tated, and allowed from the 4ed of March 1111 G inclusive, its soon as their resp, tire claims ;hall hart been allowed and atlinit tett. Art O A eapithl, producing an interest of three millions fire hundred thotcrin I hams, commencing from thc , ..' , 2d of Vlarch, MG, shall he inscribed as a 'nod of guarantee, in the Great Bonk of the Public Debt of France. in the name of two er four Commissioners, tlie one half English, and the other half Trench, chosen by their respre' ive Governments, These Commissionrra shall Fe (6%A:the said interest voiti the 22.1 of March Intn, every sin months: they shall hold it in deposit, without hating the power of negotiating it, and they shall farther be bound to plate the amount of it in the Public Funds and to receive the accumulated and compound liner/ft of the same for the profit of the creditors. In case the three millions Five hundred the harms of interest sPail Ise instilicient, there shall be delivered to the Commissioners inscriptions for larger sums, until their amount shall he equal to what may be nceissary In pay all the debts mentioned in the present act. 'I bete additi dial inscriptions. if there shall he any, shall be delivered, beating in. from this same period as Gm taro.: millions five hundred thousand trance, above stipulated, and shall bk administered by the Commissioners, according to t'ie tame principles, so that the claims winch shall remain to be paid, shall be paid wall the same proportion of aeemendated and compound interest. as if the fund of guarantee had been from the tint sufficient, and as soon as all the payments due to the creditors shall hasetteen made, the surtas of the interest fond not employed witl, the propott on of secumniated and compound interest which shall belong thereto, shall, if there be any, he given up to the disposal of the French Go ' all fhent Art. to. In proportion at Or liquidation shall be effected, and as the claims shall be allowed, distinction bring made between the sums representing the capi tals, &nth he sums at icing front the arrears of interest, the Commit-slim of Liquida tion, which shall lic mentioned in the following articles, shall deliver to the Credi lois allowed to he such, two 'Certificates for the value of the whole inscriptions to be made, hearing interest from tl e of March, asld, inclusive ; one of LIMe it e ni. irate, relating to the Capital of the richt, and-the other relating to the arrears, or interest liquidated up to the 24t1 of March, ISIG, exclusively. Art. I I. The certificates ahnve- mentioned shall be delivered over to the Commis * loners holding the annuities in deposit, who shall check the same, in nether that they be irnthediately inscribed into th+!(;rett.t Doak of the Nb,lic Debt of France, to the debit of the deposit fond, and to the credit of thu new creditors, ac knowledged as such, bearer/ of the said certificates, care being taken to dist in,;uish the perpetual from the life annuities. And the said creditors shall be authorised, ham the day of the deftnitive liquidation of their claims, to receive for their profit. soft the said, Commissioners, the interests which are due to them, together. with th- a , :eum ulated.afid compound interests, it there he any, as well as such partial:o of the capital as shall have been paid, according to what has been regulated by the precerting Art. 12. A ftirther delay shall be allowed, after the signature of the present Con. serdion, to the subjects of his Britannic sty. who shall have claims noun the irencli Government. for t' e matters specified in the present act, in order iliast they way 'uring forward their claimrs, and pro uce their titles. This dvlay shall he extended to three months for the creditors residing in Europe six months for 'twit as tare is the Western e plonks, sod twelve monttui for such as are r.`ides t in the Eavt `lndies, or in other countries equally distant. After the eft piroi i nf these periods', the said subjrcts of his Britannic Majesty thall•no loner Lave the benefit of the ptese4t Art.:). Irt order to proceed in the lignidatieut and allowance of the claims met. ti wed in the preceding ankles, there shalt be formed a Cosnotission, composed.! t French and two English Commissioners, who shall be nominated and appeiatc4 by their uspectivc Got•erntnents. These Commissioners, after they shall hrhae *Vowed and admitsckthe titl es to C.e shall proceed., according to the principles poirated:civt. to the allowance, hluidation and determination of the sums which shall k due to each creditor. In proportion as the claims shall be allowed and ascertained. they shall deliver to the creditors the two certificates thentionge in, the :oth article. one for the capi t 41, the other fur the interests. Art. ks. A Corom,issioot} of ,1 rtsitrators stosll-at the same timt be named, composed of four inemberr, two of 'whom emit bF named by Ow pritish Goverisracw4 A:0 twu by tike Ifteaclt Crotetnuten;. 773 If it shall be necessary to call apron dse Arbitrators, its rue of lilt rqualti), 4 .otes on any . poinr, the four niyises of the A•bilnotors. EttigliVis and Frvrich. shall be pit into an urn, and the one of Ihc four iilluge nettle shall be drawn first sh 43 be the arbitrator of the particular :alit upon which there s all have been such equality of votcs. Each of the CoJemisfrianert of Liquidatinit shall, in his turn take from the urn the ticket which is to pOt out the arbitrator. A timers tart.*) Stall he T21:1.1e of this operation. tend !hall be annexed to the one which shall be dream up for the liquidation aid aetei Mltuition of the Particular claim. Ira vacancy shall take face, either in the rommissiiNts of Liquidatide, nr that of Arbitration, the Government Which ought to gu•svid'e for the noiti;itattitia of a new member, shall proceed to that nomination without delay. in order that thcta o Commissiotis may *.ways remaiivas tar as possib e comp rte. If one of the Consinissioners ul Liquidation that he alitent,. he stoat' Pe replaced, dories?, his absence, by one of the at hitrbtors of this nation t and as in that ease there will be bit one arbitrator ut that nation, tite two arbitrators of the other nation shall also be reduced to CAC by ibt. And if one of the arbitrators shoo 4 absent himself, the satne operation shalt take istare, in order to reduce to one tlo two arhittsstofs of tt•e other nation. It is generally understood, that in order to obviate all manner of delay in this business, the lilaidat ion and adjildicatioii ,halt not be suspended , provided there shalt be ivesenv. 'sod in activity, ooe Cntittnts i:onor and one itstiiirater.ef each nation, the principle of esittilify between the Cerninissioners and the Arbklrators of she two being always psi:Noted and re.estatiliiheit if nectisaik, by lot. • . . . Wileitever either of the Co ntracting Powers shn I proceed to the nomination 1-7 new Commissioners of Liquidation, of Deposit, or ut Arbitration. the said Cum. - tnistioners slia I be ohlig. d prceious y in their efiteriii.t upon their fuhctions, tO tru.ke the oath, ant of the forms detai id in toe to.tuvein; attictra. • Ar. 15. The Commissioners of LirptidaCort, the Commissioners of Dennatt, and the Arbitrators alt tog:flier MAC oath , in presence of the Anitissa. l r t.l s s Britatioic Alajestv„ and between the tianci• of the K..i cr nC t e t a!1 off ranee, to proceed ju•tly and faitliful.y. to have no preference either for tare reedier.? or La , the debtor. and to act in all their proceedings accultbna to the ssipailatioas Treaty of P.tri, of the Shah of Nlay, 1,;r4 and of dar Ts tali..., and Consent invei wlth• Franc signed this day, and more particularly as:co:dill to those of the prtienl Convention. The Commissioners of liottilation and the arbitrators stuel he authorised m nit v wifneso s, whent.ver the } shit ljusise t:t nessttry, and to mainline th...tuf..v 'r. the tfgtml form'. upon au isEnts relative to the d fermi c /mots whielt form t -lel object of this Convention. Art. 16. When the 3.•00,;00 francs of interest, mentioned in She pth art ic'e, Ih.ot have het a inscribed in the name of the Cornriti,siunets who are to lab d that P' llll lit deposit, and on the first demand which shah be 91tft'Aitte by the 1 re , e Govern m ant. los Britannic Majesty silvan give the necessary ordea s to carry intro execution the restoration of the French Co onies as stipai ated by the Tre. $y of Pitris of the sorb of May, pilot, comprehending Alai Unique aoti Cuaila mope, wit chi t have been since occupied by the Lititith forces. The inscription above• Mentioned shah be made b •fure the Ist of January next, ai the weir. Art. 17. The prisoners of war, (Avers, and soldiers, both naval and rullitary ov of any other description, taken doting the hostilities which hare hardy iv: Beira shall on both sides be immediately restored to their respective count rice. under the e same conditions which are ipeci6ed In the Convention of th,e ISI' sad in the Treaty of the 30rti May of the !Sake year; and the British Government renounces all claim to any sums ur indemnities wlittsuever, which might belong to it Prolix the surplus arising front the maintenance Mg said prisontrs of war, subject nevertheless to the condition specified in the Ids additional Artiele of beet Treaty of Paris. of the Seth of Mar, I+l4. Dated at Purls, the sloth day n Nuiember. 1 (•tigned) (L. S.) CA 'II.,IIRI'.AGH. S.) stli iMe lON. • ;;igrtedi`, (L. r'3.; ADDrEIGNAL ARTICT The claim of the subjects of his Britannic Maiesty, fonnded on a de:islun n e his Most Christian Majesty relative to the Ilritish merchandise intend c.ct into. Bourdoust, in conformity to the tail of customs published in the abute•otelitioned citY ‘ sby his Royal Highness th,e 1.1.11;e d'Angouleme, on the g th of March, Isis. shall he awl violet, according to the principles and Rut cskiect declared ua the above-mentioned decision of his Mo-t Christian Majesty. The Commission instituted by the Isth Article of the Contention of this day, is difeCteo la proceed itornediAely to the liquidation of the .114 claim, and to ;gas; the dates of its payment to be made its money. The decipitiallthich sh ,R be made by the Conunissioness , shall be executed' kn. raedia,tely. according mitt toren nmi tenor. The present additional Article shalt have the same force and effect as i 6 it were inaerted word for wool in the Convention signed this day. relative to the nation and liquidation of the Online of the subjects of his Britsattic 111..jen 1 against the Government of France. witites3 whereof the respective ,Pleniptvi. 'AMU.) &Oxen the seals o( their arms. D o s s at 1 , 4 44, the i'otis n ag of Neettalibtr„ I (-igne) (-igned) CALTI.EIItgASW. litelittlElL, L. b.) *;i:LIAN4FI.O44,-. have signed it, and t awl 7 I • I I I M. J