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

THE NATIONAL REGISTER:

772

V-1. molly-11,. Ilelate to the 'node of crediting France fur such debts, specially
Ise tired is their ntigin by innitplice tountii,c4 which have ceased to be a Part
of !ranee. and Ivhiett hatchet), ooisterted frolwinscriytiuns (sum the grtat Look
In( the Public bent of Prance.
Vitt 110 Pet nen Government hating refused to recogn'te the claim of the
e‘,.rn own, of the LAM e..iatlttiCs, retliltiVe to the payment of the interest of the
d bt of lnlitstitt, which base not hecn wild for the half years of March and Sep
*ember 1.41., it is agreed tu leave tu the arbtitatiun of Ctfattosisalontra the decision
of v is gat:slims
Ix. .1 he unpaid Interests shall be liquidated of debts secured on the soil of
c I....ri.s•ceded to Fiance by the treaties of tarntio Formlo and of Luuet•illet
ttricrs fir the :34 Arr. of 5 .th May 1614. stipulating that the trench (Intern-
ment shill tCittitt'le,`, the teCtititie, dcptt►ited by public functionaries, hating the
na3esotitt of public motley, in the countrier separated front France.
Xl, The funds deposited by Communes. ti.c. in the coffers of the Government
be restored fie-

I I The Wilds which esis.cd in the Ca4se d'lrictiltureof linHand, and which
hAve been deposited la the Cuisee et. dossrlisssassse, et soy otiß r Usissee, shall be

r I,orrd.
XIII. The Co7OMM-urea of Lieluiditiiin anti Arbitration shall immediately proceed
to ow iit.i.mistitou of the objects specified In Art. 4 to'. of the Treaty of May 3u

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X IV. The eyth Art of the Treaty of a !ay 30, 1814, releasing the Ficnch Govern-
s) tilt, trout thr• Ist of January 1814, from the payment of all pensions. civil, mi
nary. or ecclesiastical is maintained. France will pay the arrears. if any, up to
t 'period

XV. Howllts hatlng arisen upon the 71st Art of the 'meaty of the 30th of May
Ital 4, tom crab's the restitution of the maps of the countries which have ceased to
bAong to Fratire. it it agreed that all the maps of the countries ceded. including
those trhiLlt the Prem.!, Government has caused to ht executed, shall he exactly
Oen gp. kith the copper plates belonging to them, in the space of four weeks
After the exchange of the rittificAtions of the I resent Tre sty. The same shall be
(huge respectiiia the liftilh.fh wept and platys, taken away from the countries oc-
cupied for a time by the dietetic *mita, as it is oil ulatLd in the 9d. paragraph
61 the V* Art eu the skid Treaty.
XVi. All clahn, ro lie delivered in within a year after the ratification of the
Treaty. wider pain of forfeiture of all rights.
XVII. XVI 11. and XIX. relate to the payment of claims, and their luacription
iu she Great

. XV. Am the tat of Jittmary, et %test, a capital producing three millions and att
Iva of iutertst capital dr 51,500 000 /rates de reale) shall be inscribed lo the
crest flunk as a guratitee in the name of two. four, or six CommiaNioners, half
'rebel, hal( ot the Aairs, who will re‘.4.iee the interest ctery six month,.
XX 1 l'eterh to Art. 17.

XXII. to 3 XVI. hehtte to reriornral engagements of the Sovereigns, respecting
the raimottmemeht. to be made to French subjects, &c.
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13,M414 at Prt it:, Nor. 50, Irls. (the signatures )
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Att tidditiottal article states that the house of the Counts of flentheim, and
St,e• ni;trat clams front the Trench Goternment, on several grounds, the sum of
4 7, t• 0 (runes. For this tlAito this house is to receive 800.000 francs in twelve
eq•tal toontith• !memento, And 510,000 frtnvs in inscriptions, in the Great took,
mantes(lurk? at 73.

No. V.—WIISIDTAItY CONVENTION.
Couch:the; in conformity to the Ninth article of the principal Treaty,
retail-1, to the Examinot;on and liquittation 41 the' Mimi; of the
.Sahji-ets of Ilia Britannic .1144lesty against the Go:•crnu,cnt of
1 rtince

.jlrt. 1. Tile sofects of La* liritannic ,4ajecty, baring claims upon the 'colas
cricnnallikt. vihn, to enntrayerktino of the Second Atitick of !tic Treaty of Com-
roerre of VMS and .ince tkie Ist of tc 17fid, naNe cutiered on that account,
11 the notleiations or Sequestrations decreed in France, shall in conformity to
rti•• rooroli Acti Article of the Treaty, tof t..tris of tic year IPI themielvfs,
ti, it Twos, or at:ireis, subjects of his Ilritiannic ifdlesty, he indemnified mud
iin. wl eo their shall !nee been admitted as legitimate. and when the
ninon' of them shall hate been ascectaiord, according to the tot ma and under
rc.nciitinns bele:after stipulated.

Att. a The sottieets of his Ilritanyth Alafesty,hokters tierrrostent Pier!: under
t' e I rt•nelt Gctrerlignent, and who on that account hart, since the tit of January
179.1, shift red by the comb-cations or sequestrations decreed in Pcatice, 61,4 u them.
fe:Vej, tht ir heirs or ilSfiglia. 'objects of Ina Rritaurtie Illojesty, be inactilitod in the
eiit Look of the consolidated Debt of Fsauce. for an a ~,,, unt of the StoclF they
prior to the Laws and Detrees of acqueatration, or of Confiscation above-

In the eases fu wliitti the Edit is or Ps'crers conntitiiting the shove mentioned
/task abseil IraPc udded thereto irtuhtable conditions, or fismirable chances. ac-
taunt i!iall be had thereof in favour of the Creditors, and iu addition, founded
upon a just evainathin of such advantages, :mall be made to the amount of the
a i.ek to be inscribt d.

The hew innlipt iota shalt bear date and brat interest from the 424 March turn.
too ti subjects of his Dritannit: Maj sty who, by receiving their mortifies •e a,.
tliis A, alter the 9th of September, 179 i, hate submitted themselves!, by their n«n
ace-, to she ►ow, exis log upon thin subject, are exempted Wm the above-trait
'tiot.en diapositives.

1 EC. 3

Art. 3. Such of the subjects of his Britannic Majesty, or their heirs of assigns.
.'objects of his Beitannic Ilk-testy, as possessed Life Annuities from the French Goa
vernment Wore the decrees of confiscation or sequestration., shall o moony be in
acrilsvd upon the Ghat Bunk of Life Aurruitic s of France, for the same soon of Life
Annuities as they eujoyed in 1703. Such of the subjects of his Britannic :Majesty
however; as have changed the nature of their clairros, by receiving their annuities
at a third, and thou by their own act have solo:lit ted themselves to the laws existing
open this subject, shill be excepted from the above dispositions.
The new inscripfons shall bear date, and bear interest from 20d of March, 16t&
Prior to the delivery of the stew inscriptions, the claimants shall be bonnet to
produce eertificates, 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 abuse-mentioned subjects of his Britannic Majesty
possessing life annuities in the names of persons who are dead, they shall be hound
to produce certificates of demise in the usual forms. stating the period of the de,
cease, and in that cue the annuities shall be paid up to such period.
Art. 4 Such arrears of the perpetual and life annuities a. shall have bectl liqel-
dated and allowed, and at shall be due up to the 211 of March next exclusive!),
save the cases of exemption specified in the Second and Third Articles, shall be
inscribed in the Great Hook of the Public Debt of Fraore, at the rate which shall
he the medium price betweo n per and the current mat Act price of the day, at the
date of the signature of the present Treaty. The inreriptions shall bear date and
bear interest from the 224 of March 1815, inclusively.
Art. 3. In order to determine the capital due on immoveable property which
belonged tu,swbjects of his Britannic Majesty, to their heirs or assigns, equally
subjects of his Britannic Majesty. and which was sequestrated, confiscated and
sold, the followlog process shall he had :
The said 'objects of his Britannic Majesty shall be obliged to produce Ist e the
11 deed of purchase proving their proprietorship. 2dly, the acts pros ing the facts of
the sequestration, and of the confiscation against themselves, their ancestors of
assignors, &Objects of hisirritannic 2litiesty. In default, however, of all proofs
in writing. considering the circumstances under whit h the confiscations and se.
qtocatrations took plate. and those which have since arisen, such other proofs shall
he admitted as the commissioners of Liquidation hereafter mentioned shall judg
gpfficient in heat thereof.
The Frcoch Government further engages to faciltate by every means, the pro-
duction of all titles and proofs serving to substantiate the claims to which the
present article refer., and the Commissioners shall be authorised to make all
search. which they shill judge necessary to arrive at such information, and to ob.,
tain the production of such titles and proofs ; they shall also bc empowered to
examine upon oath, in case of need, such persons employcli in the rthtlic offices,
as may hare it in their power to point them out, or to furnish them.
Ti.e talue of the said immoveable property shall be determined and fixed by the
Production of an extract of the " Matrice,' of the " Holes, 'of the " Conti-Volition
foocierr,' for the year Idgl, and at she rate of twenty times the revenue men-
tioned in the said" Boles.'
If the " hlatricet' should no longer exist, and that it should therefore be im-
possible to produce the extracts, the istairnanes shall be authorised to furnish sub
other proofs as shall be admitted by the Commission of Liquidation mention-31 in
the following Articles.
The capital thus lopoidpted and allowed shall be inscribed upon the Great Book
of the Public Debt of Prance, at the rate which tas been fixed at the Fourth
Ar-
tick for the inspection of the arrears of the/ annuities ) and the inscriptions shalt
bear date and shall bear intermit from the 22r1 of March next inclusively.
The arrears due upon the said capital from the period of its sequestration, shall
be calculated at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum, without deduction, and the
whole ainoont of those sir p to the :2d of March next exchttively, shall be
inscribed he the Great Book of the Public Debt of France. at the rate above men.
tionedt and shaU bear int front the 52.11 day of March next, inclusively.
Art. G. 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 ha France
has been sequestered, confiscated, and sold, or to their heirs or assigns, subjects
of his Britannic Majesty, the follooing process shall be had.
The claimants she 11 be obliged to produce : Ist, the proces verbal containing the
inventory of the moveable effects seized or sequestered. udly, The proces verb.tl
of the saliof the said eft sets, or in default proofs in writing, such other proof as
the respective Commissioners of the two Powers shall judge sufficient in lieu there-
of. according to the principles established In the preceding article: the French Go.
vernment engaging in this respect to give the same fncilities, anti the Commis-
*loners are authorised to make tire same search, and to take the same measurer,
as have been detailed in the foregoing article, with respect to immoveable pro-
' pery. The amount of the stock arising from the seizures and sales Al the move.
able property shall be thus determined; regard being always had to those perloots
during which paper money was in cirtulatiem, and to the fixtitioom augmentation of
prices resulting therefrom.
The capital liquidated and allowed shall be inscribed imon the Great Book of :he
Public Debt of France, at the rate which has been geed by the preceding &Witless
and the Inscriptions shall bear date, and shall bear interest from the lid March

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The arrears liquidated and allowed, dur oral the said Carrie'sl from the period at
which the claimant wits dentived of the Frossesiitin of, his or her moveable property,
shall be calculated at the rate of three per cent. per annum, without deduction,
end the whole amount of the said arrears tip to the 112 id March neat, exclusively.
shall be inscribed upon the Great Boob of the Public Debt of France. at the rate
atrove•mentloned, and shell bear interest from the 2:d March next, inelasivoly.

The vessels. 'laps, carres and other moveable properiy which shall have been
seized and confiscated, either to the profit, of Prance. or to the profit of the sata.
j.•cts of his Most Christian Majesty, in conformity to the laws of war and the pro-
liihitory decrees. 51kall not he admitted to the liquidation, nor to the payassoto

il•trtioned in the prebentattkie.

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