Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-09-06
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oA.cial Text of the Preliminaries of

~ Peace.
The Gazette, of Vienna, Of the Sd Of
August, publishes the following as the text
of the preliminaries of peace:
Their Majesties, the Emperor of Austris
and the King of Prussia, animated 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 Austria,
Count Aloysius Karolyl and Baron Adolph
Won Brenner Felsach -.
Ard His Majesty the King of Prussia,
the President of the Council and Minister
for Foreign Affairs, Ohio, Count Bismarck.
Schonhaussen, who, after having exchanged
their full powers, found to be in good and
due form, have agreed on the following fun.
damental acts as bases of peace to be con-
cluded without delay:
Article l. 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
concluded, under reserve of the arragements
to be made at the time Of the definite con
clusion 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
Germanie Confederation, such as it has
hitherto existed, and gives Germany, with
out the participation Of the Empire of Aus,
tria. His Majesty promises equally to re-
cognise the closer union which will be
founded by His Majesty the King Of Prus-
sia, to the North of the line of the Main,
and declares his consent to the German
States South of that line contracting uni.
on, whose national bonds with the Confed'
Grafton of North Germany will be the object
of an ulterior understanding between the
two parties.
Art. 8. His Majesty the Emperor Of
Austria transfers to His Majesty the King
of Prussia all the rights which the Peace of
Vienna of October 20, 1864, had recognized
in him over the Duchies of Schleswig and
Holstein, with this reserve, that the popu-
lation of the Northern districts of Schles-
wig will be anew united to Denmark, if they
express the desire of a freely given vote.
Art. 4. His Majesty the Emperor Of
Austria engages to pay to his Majesty the
King of Prussia the sum of 0,000, 900 Of
Thalers, to cover portion of the expenses
which the war has occasioned to Prussia
but from this sum is to be deducted the
amount of the indemnity for war expenses
which his Majesty the Emperor of Austria
has still the right of exacting from the
Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein, in vir'
ture of Article IL, of the treaty of peace Of
October 20, 1864, before cited, say l5,OOO,'
900 of thalsrs, besides 100000, as the
equivalent of the expenses of maintaining
the Prussian army, borne by the countries
of Austris occupied by that army until the
conclusion of peace.
Art. S. Conformably to the desire ex'
pressed by his Majesty the Emperor of Aus,
tria, his Majesty the King of Prussia de-
clares himself ready to leave substituting,
at the time of the notifications which must
take place in Germany, the territorial CON
dition of tue Kingdom of Saxopy in its &C
tual extent, reserviug to himself, on the
other hand, to regulate in detail, by spe
cial treaty of peace with his Majesty the
King of saxony, the questions relative tc
the share of Saxony in the expenses of the
war, as we'll as the future position of ths
Kingdom of Saxony in the Confederation
Of the North Of Germany.
On the other hand, His Majesty the EN-
peror of Austria, promises to recognize ths
new organization which the King of Prus
sis will establish in the North Of Germany
including the territorial notifications whicf
will be the consequence of it.
ART. 6. His Majesty the King Of Prus
sis engages to decide His Majesty the King
of Italy, his ally, to give his appreciation tt
the preliminaries of peace, and to the armis
sice based on these preliminaries, from the
time that, by declaration of His Majesty
the Emperor of the French, the Venetian
Kingdom shall have been put at the dispo
sal of His Majesty the King of Italy
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