Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1814-08-06

shall be prosecuted. disturbed or trou,ledi in
person or property. under any pretex,, or
on account of his political cnnduc. or o,5.n-
| IONS, or bis attachment whether te either %!
the contracting parties or 10 the governments
which have ceased to exis', or for any o.
Their reason. except for debts contracted
with individuals, or for acts posterior to the
| present treaty.
IL. In all the countries which change
masters, either in virtue of the present. trea.
ty, or of any succe ading arrangements. there
shall be granted to the inhabitants, native
and foreign, of whatever condition and ma.
| ton they may be, a space of SIX years, Count.
| ing from the exchange of notifications. to
dispose, if they shall think it expedient, of
| their property acquired either before the
war. or during its actual continuance, and
to retire into whatever country thps saall
| choose.
| is. The allied powers wishing to give TO
his Most Christian Majesty new testimos
ny OF their desire to do away as far as in
them lies, the consequences of that epoch of
misery SO happily terminated by the present
peace, renounce in the whole such sums as
the government may claim of France on ac>
| count of all contracts. supplies or advances
whatsoever made to the French government
in the different wars which have taken place
since 1892
On his part, his Most Christian Majesty
| renounces all claim which he might form a !.
gainst the allied powers upon the same foun.
dations. In execution of this article, the
| high contracting parties engage to deliver
| TO each other all securities, obligations and
documents which relate to the claims they
| have reciprocally relinquished.
10. The French government engages to
cause to be liquidated and paid all such O.
| Their sums as shall be found due in coun ries
out of its territory, in virtue of contracts, or
other formal engagements heretofore made,
between individuals or private establish
nents, and the French authorities, as we'll
tor supplies, as In virtue of legal obliga-
tons.
| 20. The high contracting powers shall an !.
point, Immediately after the exchange of ra.
tiications of>the present treaty. commis.
sioners to regulate and superintend the exc.
| cution OF all the provisions contained in the
18th q 10Th articles. These commissioners
shall attend to the examination of the claims
| mentioned 10 the preceding article, the liz
quotation OF the sums claimed, and the mode
In which the French government shall pro-
pose 10 discharge them. They shall also be
charged with the delivery of toe securities,
Obligations and documents relative to the
claim, which the high contracting parties
mutually reiipquisb. so that the ratification
OF the rssii,-ef their labor shall complete
this reciprocal PRONUNCIATION.
81. Debts specially charged in their origin
upon the countries which cease to belong to
| France, or contracted for their interior ID.
ministration shall remain a charge upon
these same countries. Consequently such of
those debts AS since the 22d day of Decem.
Der, 1873, have been converted into inscrip
ton in the great book of the public debt of
France, shall be accounted for to the French
government.
The securities of all those, which have
been prepared for inscription and have not
yet been Inscribed shall be delivered to the
governments Of the respective countries
The accounts of all these debts shall be pre-
pared and determined by joint commits
| sion.
%. The French government shall remain
charged on its part with the reimbursement
| of all sums paid by the subjects OF the above
mentioned Countries, into the French funds,
| whether by way of security, deposit or con
| signafon.s So also French subjects, SER
watts OF the said countries, who have paid
| sums by way of security, deposit or consg
nation. to their treasures respectively, shall
be faithfully reimbursed.
%. The titularies OF places held in pledge
| who have not the receipt of the revenues,
| shall be reimbursed with interest until the
full payment at Paris, by one fifth every
year, reckoning from the date Of this Urea
| ty.
With respect to those. who are accounta
BILE, this reimbursement shall comm nee al
the farthest six months after hepresen,a a.
ton of their accounts, the case of malver,a
ton only excepted. A copy Of the last &C
count snail be given to the governments Of
their country, to serve it for an index and a
point OF departure.
"a. The Judicial deposits and consignati-
ons made into the " caisse d'amorffsse nient''
in execution of the law of % Nivose, year
10, 18 Jan. 1867 and which belong to in
habitants of countries which France ceases
topossess, shall be placed within the term of
one year, couating from the exchange of ra
,ihcations OF the present treaty, in the hands
J Of the authorities of the said countries, ex,
cepting such of those deposits and consigna.
tions as interest French subjects, in which
| case they shall remain in the " caisse d'a,
! mortissemeut" not to be restored but upon
the liberation resulting from the decisions oil
! competent authorities.
25. The funds deposited by the communes
ard public establishments in the " caisse dc
scrvice"t and in the I" caisse d'amortlsse.
ment,"t or in any other fund of the govern
meDt. shall be reimbursed to them by fifth,
from year to year, Counting from the date o.
the present treaty. deducting the advance
which shall have been made to them, ant
saving the regular ohttositionsS made upos
these funds by the C editors of the salt
communes, and of the said public establish