The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-06-10
LUXEMBOURG.

The Court granted the order.
LUXEMBOURG.
TEXT OF THE TREATY CONCLUDED AT LONDON.
The following is believed to be the correct text
of the Treaty for the Naturalization of Luxem-
bouTg recently concluded at London:-
In The name of the Most Holy and Indivisible
Trinity-His Majesty the King of the Neither
lands, Grand Duke of Luxembourg taking into
tion of the Grand Duchy, owing to the dlssolu-
ton of the ties which attached it to the former
jesties the Emperor of the French, the Emperor
of Austria, the Queen Of England, the King Of
the Belgians, the King of Prussia, and the EN-
peror of all the Russias to assemble their repre-
sentattves at London, in order TO come to an
his Msies4 the KIM Grend ss ~ tbe ne O1
arrangements TO be concluded in the general
interest of peace.
this invitation, have resolved by common
accord to respond to the desire His Majesty, the
King of Italy, has manifested to take part in
deliberation destined to offer q new pledge of
security for the maintenance of the general
In consequence, their Majesties, in concert
with his Majesty the King OF Italy, desiring to
conclude treaty for this purpose, have ap-
pointed as their Plenipotentiaries, that is TO
say
tiaries signed below follow.)
Who, after having exchanged their full
powers, and found them in good and perfect
form, have agreed upon the following art cles:-
!. His Majesty the King of the Netherlands,
Grand Duke of Luxembourg, maintains the ties
House of Orange Nassau by virtue of The trea-
ties that have placed that state under the
Duke, his descendants and successors. :
The rights which the magnates of the House
OF Nassau possess in the succession OF the Grand
maintained. The high contracting parties ac-
cept this present declaration and take note
q The Grand Duchy within the limits deter
April 49, 1889, under the guarantee of the Courts
OF Austria, France, Great Britain, Prussia, and
Russia, shall henceforth constitute perpetu-
ally neutral State. 1t shall be bound to observe
this same neutrality towards all other States.
The high contracting parties engage to re-
spect the principle of neutrality stipulated by
this present article. This principle is and re-
mains placed under the sanction OF The collec-
tive guarantees of the signitary powers to this
present treaty, with the exception of Belgium,
which is itself a neutral State. =
g. The Grand Duchy of LuXem bOurg, being
neutralized in the terms of the preceding arti-
Gle, the maintenance or establishment of strong
places upon its territory becomes needless and
without object. 1t is in consequence agreed by
common accord THAT the town OF Luxembourg.
considered in past tlme, from military point of
view, as a Federal fortress shall cease to be
fortified town,
His Majesty the Grand Duke reserves to him.
self the right of maintaining in that town the
number OF troops necessary to watch over it for
the preservation fgood order.
4. Conformably with the stipulations con-
tanned in articles and 8, his Majesty the King
of Prussia declares that his troops at present
garrisoning the fortress of Luxembourg shall
receive orders to proceed to the evacuation of
the place Immediately after the exchange of
mencement will simultaneously be made with
removing the artillery, munitions, and all OBJ
jects forming part of the appurtehances of the
said strong place. During this operation there
shall only remain the number of troops neceS-
sary to watch over the safety OF the war mate
rial and 10 effect its removal, which shall be
completed with the least possible delay.
5. His Majesty, the Grand Duke, by virtue OF
the rights of sovereignty he exercises over the
town and fortress OF Luxembourg, engages upon
his part TO take the necessary measures for con-
verting the said strong place into an open town.
by means of such demolition as his Majesty
shall judge sufficient to fulfil the intentions
of the high contracting powers expressed in
article 3 OF this present treaty. Tue works re-
qutred for this purpose will commence imme-
diately after the retreat of the garrison. They
shall be carried out with all the circumspection
the interests of the Inhabitants of the town
His Majesty, the King Grand Duke, further
promises that the forJihcations of the town of
LaSembourg shall not in future be ere-esta abllshed
and that no military establishment shall either
| be maintained or created at that place.
6. The signitary Powers to this present treaty
recognize that the dissolution of the Germanic
| the dissolution of the ties that united the
| Duchy of Lmburg collectively with the Grand
! Duchy of Luxembourg to the said Confedera-
| tion, 1t results therefrom that the relations
| treaty OF April 10, 1889, between the Grand
| Duchy and certain territories appertaining to
| the Duchy of Lmburg, have ceased to exist. the
| said territories continuing to form an integral
| part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Z. This present treaty shall be ratified and Its
! within the period of four weeks, or earlier, If
| possible.
| In faith OF which the respective Plenipoten-
| taries have signed the treaty and appended to
| il the seal of their arms.
| Done at London, the llth OF May, 1867
STANLEY. VAN DE WEYER,
APPoNYI, ToRHACo
LA TOUR D. AUVERGNE, SERVA's,
D'AZEGLIo BERNSToRFF,
BENTIRCK, BRUNNoW
| Declaration.
It is we'll understood that Article does not
affe ct the rights of other neutral Powers to pre-
! serve and In case of need TO repair their strong
| places and other means of defense
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