The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-08-28
Official Text of the Prcliminaries OF

of August, publishes the following MS
the text of the preliminaries OF peace:
Their Majesties, the Emperor. of
Austria and the King of Prussia, ami
mated with the desire of restoring to
their countries the benefits of peace,
have, with that view. and in order to
fix the preliminaries of peace, named
Plenipotentiaries viz:
His Majesty the Emperor of Aus
tria, Count Aloysius Karolyl and
Baron Adolph Won Brenner Felsach;
And His Majesty tho King of ,Prus-
sia, the President of the Council and
Minister for Foreign Affairs, Ohio,
Count Won Bismarck k-Schonhaussen,
who, after having exchanged their
full powers, found to be in good and
due form, have agreed on the fol-
lowing fundamental acts as bases of
the peace to be concluded without
delay:
ART. 1. With the exception of the
Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom, the
territory of the Austrian monarchy
remains intact. His Majesty the King
OF Prussia engages to withdraw his
troops from the Austrian territories
occupied by them, after peace is con-
cluded, under reserve Of the arrange
ments to be made at the time of the
definite conclusion Of peace for the
guarantee Of the payment of the war
indemnity.
ART. 2. His Majesty the Emperor
OF Austria recognizes the dissolution
of the Germanic Confederation, such
as it has hitherto existed. and gives
his assent to new organization of
Germany, without the participation
OF the Empire of Austria. His Ma
]esty promises equally to recognize
the closer union which will be founded
by His Majesty the King of Prussia,
to the North of the line of the Main,
and declares his consent to the Ger
man States South of that line con-
tractlng union, whose national
bonds with the Confederation of
North Germany will be the object OF
an ulterior understanding between
the two parties.
ART. 3. His Majesty the Emperor
OF Austria transfers to his Majesty
the King of Prussia all the rights
which the Peace of Vienna of Octo-
Der 20, 1864, had recognized in him
over the Duchies of Schlcswig and
Holstein, with this reserve, that the
population of the Northern districts
Of Schleswig will be anew united to
Denmark, if they express the desire
of freely given vote.
ART. 4. His Majesty the Emperor
OF Austria engages to pay to his Ma
jesty the King of Prussia the sum of
40, 600, 900 of thalers, to cover II por-
ton of the expense which the war
has occasloncd to Prussia; but from
this sum is to be deducted the
amount of the indemnity for war ex-
penses which his Majesty the Empe-
ror of Austria has still the right of
exacting from the Duchies of Schles-
wig and Holstein, in virtue of Article
II, Of the treaty of peace of October
70, 1864, before cited, say 5000, 600
OF thalers, besides 5000, 900, as the
equivalent of the expense Of main
tanning the Prussian army, borne by
the countries of Austria occupied bv
that army until the conclusion OF
peace.
ART. 5. Conformably to the desire
expressed by his Majesty the Empc
ror of Austria. his Majesty the King
of Prussia declares himself ready to
leave subsisting, at the time of the
notifications which must take place
in Germany, the territorial condition
Of the Kingdom of Saxony in its
actual extent, reserving to himself,
on the other hand, to regulate in de-
tail, by a special treaty of peace with
his Majesty the King Of Saxonv, the
questions relative to the share of
Saxony in the expenses of the war.
as we'll as the future position of the
Kingdom of Saxony in the Confcle-
ration of the North of Germany.
On the other hand, His Majesty
the Emperor of Austria, promises TO
recognize the new organization which
the King Of Prussia will establish in
the North of Germany, including the
territorial notifications which Will
be the consequence of it,
ART. 6. His Majesty the King of
Prussia engages to decide His Majes-
tty the King Of Italy, his ally, to give
his appreciation to the preliminnrics
of peace, and to the armistice based
on these preliminaries, from the time
that, by Il declaration of His Majesty
the Emperor Of the French. the We
netian Kingdom shall have been put
at the disposal of His Majesty the
King Of Italy.
! ART 7. The ratitications of the pre-