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London, England, 1815-07-24 00:00:00

AcT OF THE co?.,;GREss OF VIENNA.

The Powers Who siguc•l the . treaty concluded
- at Patis on the 30th of May, 1514..11 wing rU-
assembled at Vienna (c..reeably• to the 32,i1
of that Act, kith the Pi inces.and States io alliance
- with them 0 Coln te the ;disposition‘; of the •aid
treaty,and toad(' to it other.arraiements render
ed necessary by the condit ion, in which Europe was
placed at the conclusion of the last war, desiring
now to Comprise in one common transaction the
different results of their negociations, that they
may be sanctioned by their mutual ratifications,
have authorised their Pleoi pot rot itu iep to collect
into a general instrument, the dispositions. of
}.,;eater and permanent interest, and to join to this •
deed, as integral parts of.the arranements of con-
sgress; the treatiee, conventions', declarations, re-
gulations, and other particular acts, which are
found cited in the present treaty.. And the afore-
said powers having named as plenipotentiaries to
. Congress, viz. (lilere follows the names and
titles of the plenipotentiaries arranged ,in the al-
phabetical order of their courts). Those'of the
Plenipotentiaries who were present at the close of
the negociations, alter having e,Zhibited their finll
powers, which were foimd to be in good and 'tine
form, have agreed to place jn the said instrument,
and to sanction with their counnOn signature the
following articles :

OF THE DUCHY or wAnsAw TO THE RUS-

SIAN FMPIitE.

Ait-ricLE 1. The Dnehyot ‘Varsaw with the.ex-
cept ion of the provinces and districts, Which are
,othernise disvosed of in the follot.ing articles, is
tutittal to the Empire of Russia. It shall be irre-
vocably joined to it by its constitution, to be
pos;essed,hy his Majesty the Emperor of all the
Eussias, 'his heirs and -successors, for ever. His
imperial Majesty is invested with the right of
giving to this state, while it enjoys a distinct ad-
thinistration, any interior exto,i-ion which he
s!.all judge convenient. . He will take along %lith
his other titleS that of Czar, King of Poland,
cpufortnably to the protocol appointed for the ti-
tles attached to his other possessions. The Poles,
subjects respectively of Russia, Austria, and Prus-
sia, shill obtain a represrotation..and nationalin-
stittiiions, regulated after that' inode of political
existence '% hies each cr! the Governments to
which they belong shall judge useful and conve-
nient to give them.

.LIMITS OF THE GRAND, OTICUY OF POSEN.
2.. That part of the Grand Diichy of Warsaw
which his?dajesty the King of Prussia shall pos-
sess-in full sovereignty and property, for hiMself
and his successors, under the title of the Grand
Welly of Posen, shall be compiised within the
following :7- -
In proceeding from the..frontier of. Eastern
Prusiia to the village of -15,euhoff, the new limit
Will follow the frontier of Western Prussia, as it
subsisted: from the year 1772 up to the, Peace of
Tilsit, to the village of Lubitsch,, which-will he.
long ts..) theDnchy of Warsaw_;. from thence there
Shall be di'awn a line, which, leaving Kone-
fanla, Grabonice, and Izytuo to Prtsia, passes
the Vistula near this last' place, on the other side
of the river which falls into the Vistula opposite
Izytnn, to the.ancient boundary of-the district of
•Nitze neaeGross Opoczko, so that'Sluzewo shall
belong to the Duclry, and Pizybrairow, nollceu.
ilez, and Maziejewo to Prossh.L From Gross
'Opoeiko it shall pass Chlewiska, which shall re-
main with Prussia, to the village Przbyslau, and
thence by the villages Ploski, Ohelmico,
\j ilo-
wiczki, Kohilinka, ,Woyezya, °yellow°, to the
city of Powidz. ^ '
From Powidz the line shall be continued by
the city of Spinet:, to the poiltt:bf the confluence
of the rivers Wartha anti Prosna.
From this point' it 5111111 be continued the•
course of than river Prosna, as far as the village of
Noscielnavies, witniu a league of the city of
There leaving to that city (on the left bank of
the Prosna), semi-circular territory, measured
s; the distance between Kosciclnavics and Ka-
shall !Mit to the c.-)4lrte of the
Prosna, anti follow it,:,aseending by the cities
Grabow, Wiczuszow, l3oleslawieo, in order to
terminate near' the village of Ciola, at the trontier
of Silesia, opposite Petachia.

SALT-MINC:3 OF IPIeLIEZKA
3. Ilis I!'.l;,,!rial; and Royal Apostolic Majesty
sb<ill posses. in full propetty and sovereignty the/
Salt mines as well, as the territory
that belongs to them. •-

AOU NDAIZY BETWEENGALLIFIA AND TUE RUSSIAN

TERIOTOUV

4. The Thelweg of the Vistula shall separate
frinn the territory .of the ftee city of Cra-
co'w.- It will serve, at .the same time, as a boon-
ilary between Gallicta and that part of the formet
Duchy of Warsaw re-united to the states of his
Majesty the Emperor Of all the Russias, as far as
the vicinity hf the city 9f fc-,,,tAiichost. •
From Zawichost to the Bug, the dry frontier
shall be determined by the line described it) the
Treaty of Vienna, 1805, subject to the rectifica-
tions which by mutual agreements may be made

in it. •
The frontier, in nroceeding from the Bug, shall
be re-established betweenl the. two empires as it
existed before the said treaty. •
TOE 'CIRCLE OF TARNOPOL, &C.
TO AUSTRIA.
t): Pis Majesty the Fatlperor of all the Russias
-cedes to his Imperial and Royal Apbst„ii, Ma_
jemy the di,;tricts nhich have been detached Iron)
•. _Eastern Gaiicia, in virtue of the, Treaty of
rnn t, Isom (if the circles ut. Zioozaw, Braezan,'
Tarnopol.,
,tild z„desczyk, and the frontiers shall
be re-establislted on that side as they existed be-
' fore the epoch :of the aforesaid '.!'reaty;
-crAcoW DECLARED FikEE CITY.
6. The:City ()Itramw,•with its territory,'shall
be considered Irencelo.rth as a free,. Independent,
and strictly nentral•cit v, wider the protc•ction of
. Russia, Anstria, aod
LIMITS o'F' THE -r,sera may OF CRACOtV.
7. The tetri;ory of the free city of Cracow shall
•liave 4)! the 'left of the Vis.-
'lila a Vow, which, conmencing at the village Of
Wo!lea, at the phice where a rivulet near that vil-
lage flows into die Vistula, shall ascend this

vulet by 010, i‘oseimm i—ziolce, :,;() that
villages ;Are comprised, wit!sin the trootier of the
free city of. Cracow ; thence passing the villages,
it shall proceed by DLit. SOmos-
row,‘Karnio;vice, which wise be intbaled
in the ,territory of Cracow, t.ojhtmtioitcf there the
limit tviiich srparates the diet of icezeszovire
fi•inn that of Mat co,nniences ; front thence it
shall follOw that limit between the twit said dis-
trieit, to terminate on the frontiers of.Prossiadbi:-
.

GRANTFD TO pormoßzA.
8. His Majesty the Emperor of Austria de-
sirous to contribute itii Itis hart to facilitate the
relations rd- comMerce and i oiul ireighbonrhnod.
between (inMehl and the trad;iig city of Podg-oria,
grants to that city the privileges ot: a 'free coin-
uercial city, in the same extent, as they .tre en-
joyed by• the city of t3mly. Tliis freedom of trade
shall extend to a circumference of 500 wises front
the barriers of. the 'snburbs of ,tile city of Pod-
gorza. As:a consequeuce.of this perthanent co r-
cession which shall nevertheless be understood 0)
extinguish none of the rights of sovereignty be-,
longing to hislmperial and Royal Apostolic Ma-
jesty, Austrian custom-houses Shall not be esta-
blisi)ed but in places beyond the before-Mentioned
demarcation. There shall not, moreover, be
"formed in it any military establishment ‘vhich may
;threaten the neutrality of Cracow, or restrain the
liberty of commerce,' the enjoyment of which his
Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty wishes to
bestow upon the cityand arrondissement of Pod-
gorza.

NEUTRALITY OF ce.Acovr.
9. The Courts of Russia, Austria, and Prussia,
engage to respect, and to cause to be respected
in All tinecoining, the neutrality of the free 'city
of Cracow and its territories : no armed-force
shall enter it upon any pretext whatever. ,
In return it is understood, and expr'essly sti-
pulAted, that there shall not be granted
,irt the
free city of Cracow, or On its terr:-tory, any asy-
lum or protection to refugees, deserters, or cri-
minals pursued by law, belonging to the territo-
ries of one or other of the said high Powers ; and
that, upon a demand being made by the compe-
tent authorities to surrender such individuals, they
shall be arrested and delivered without delay to
the gn3il, which shall beAppolnted to receive them
on the frontiers.

CONSTITUTION, ACADEMY, AND lIISHOPRICK

CNAC4IW.

10. The arrangements that relate to the con-
stitution of the free city of CracOw, its Academy,
its Bishopriek and Chapter, as they are stated in
the 7, 13, 16, and 17th articles of the additional
treaty regarding Cricow,.:shall have the Saine
force and validity as if they had been literally in-
serted in this act.