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situated upon the right bank of the Elbe, with the villages of Luneburg situated on the same bank. The part of the duchy upon the left bank remains to the kingdom of Hanover. The states of that part of the duchy which passes under the Prussian government shall preserve their rights and privileges; especially those founded upon the provincial recess of the 15th September 1702, and confirmen uy the King of Great Britain, now reigning, under date of June 21, 1765.

2. The bailiwick of Klötze;

3. The bailiwick of Elbingerode ;

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able to employ the merchants of Embden for the trade they carry on with that port; they shall be at liberty to dispose of their commodities either to the inhabitants of the town or to foreigners, without paying any other duties than those to which the Hanoverian subjects are subjected, and which cannot be raised but by mutual consent.

His Majesty the King of Prussia, on his part, engages to grant to Hanoverian subjects the free navigation of the canal of the Stecknitz. so as not to exact from them any other duties than those which shall be paid by the inhabitants of the Duchy of Lauen

4. The villages of Rudegershagen and burg. His Prussian majesty engages, besides, Gänseteich;

5. The bailiwick of Reckeberg.

His Britannic Majesty, King of Hanover, renounces for himself, his descendants and successors for ever, the provinces and districts specified in the present article, and all the rights which have reference to them.

XXX. His Majesty the King of Prussia, and his Britannic Majesty, King of Hanover, animated with the desire of entirely equalizing the advantages of the commerce of the Ems and of the Port of Embden, and of rendering them common to their respective subjects, have agreed on this head to what follows:

1. The Hanoverian government engages to cause to be executed, at its expence, in the years 1815 and 1816, the works which a commission, composed partly of artists, and to be immediately appointed by Prussia and Hanover, shall deem necessary to render navigable that part of the river of Ems which extends from the Prussian frontier to its mouth, and to keep it, after the execution of such works, always in the same state in which those works shall have placed it for the benefit of navigation.

2. The Prussian subjects shall be allowed to import and export, by the port of Embden, all kinds of provisions, productions and goods, whether natural or artificial, and to keep in the town of Embden, warehouses, wherein to place the said goods for two years, dating from their arrival in the towns, with out their being subject to any other inspection than that to which those of the Hanoverian subjects are liable.

3. The Frussian vessels and merchants of the same nation, shall not pay for navigation, for exportation or importation of merchandize, or for warehousing, any other tolls or duties than those charged upon the Hanoverian subjects. These tolls and duties shall be regulated by agreement between Prussia and Hanover, and no alteration shall be introduced into the Tarif hereafter, but by mutual consent. The privileges and liberties just specified extend equally to those Hanoverian subjects who navigate that part of the river Ems which remains to the King of Prussia.

4. Prussian subjects shall not be compell

to insure these advantages to Hanoverian subjects, should he hereafter cede the Duchy of Lauenburg to another sovereign.

XXXI. His Majesty the King of Prussia and his Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, King of Hanover, mutually agree to three military roads through their respective dominions.

1st. One from Halberstadt, through the country of Hildesheim, to Minden.

2d. A second from the Old March, through Gihorn and Neustadt, to Minden. 3d. A third from Osnabruck, through Ippenbüren and Rheina, to Bentheim. The two first in favour of Prussia and the third in favour of Hanover.

The two governments shall appoint, without delay, a commission to prepare, by common consent, the necessary regulations for the establishment of the said roads.

XXXII. The bailiwick of Meppen, belonging to the Duke of Aremberg, as well as the part of Rheina Wolbeck, belonging to the Duke of Looz-Corswaren, which at this moment are provisionally occupied by the Hanoverian government, shall be placed in such relations with the kingdom of Hanover, as the federative constitution of Germany shall regulate for the mediatised territories.

The Prussian and Hanoverian governments having nevertheless reserved to themselves to agree hereafter, if necessary, to the fixing of another line of frontier with regard to the county belonging to the Duke of Looz Corswaren; the said governments shall charge the commission they may name for fixing the limits of the part of the county of Lingen ceded to Hanover, to deliberate thereupon, and to adjust definitively the frontiers of that part of the county belonging to the Duke of Looz-Corswaren, which, as aforesaid, is to be possessed by the Hanoverian government.

The relations between the Hanoverian government and the county of Bentheim shall remain as regulated by the treaties of mortgage existing between his Britannic Majesty and the Count of Bentheim: and when the rights derived from this treaty shall have expired, the relations of the county of Ben theim towards the kingdom of Hanover shelt

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be such as the federative constitution of Germany shall regulate for the mediatised territories.

XXXIII. His Britannic Majesty, King of Hanover, in order to meet the wishes of his Prussian Majesty to procure a suitable arrondissement of territory for his serene Highness the Duke of Oldenburg, promises to cede to him a district containing a population of 5,000 inhabitants.

XXXIV. His serene highness the Duke of Holstein-Oldenburg shall assume the title of Grand Duke of Oldenburg.

XXXV. Their serene highnesses the Dukes of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg Strelitz, shall assume the titles of Grand Dukes of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Strelitz.

XXXVI. His Highness the Duke of Saxe Weimar shall assume the title of Grand Duke of Saxe Weimar.

XXXVII. His Majesty the King of Prussia shall cede from the mass of his states, as they have been fixed and recognised by the present treaty, to his royal highness the Grand Duke of Saxe Weimar, districts containing a population of 50,000 inhabitants, Contiguous to, or bordering upon, the principality of Weimar. His Prussian Majesty engages also to cede to his royal highness out of that part of the principality of Fulda which has been given up to him in virtue of the same stipulations, districts containing a population of 27,000 inhabitants. His royal highness the Grand Duke of Weimar shall possess the above districts in full property and sovereignty, and shall unite them in perpetuity to his present states.

XXXVIII. The districts and territories which are to be ceded to his Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar, in virtue of the preceding article, shall be determined by a particular convention; and his Majesty the King of Prussia engages to conclude this convention, and to cause the above districts and territories to be given up to his royal highness, within two months from the date of the exchange of the ratifications of the treaty concluded at Vienna, June 1, 1815, between his Prussian Majesty and his Royal Highness the Grand Duke.

XXXIX. His Majesty the King of Prussia, however, cedes immediately, and promises to give up to his Royal Highness, in the space of a fortnight, reckoning from the signature of the above-mentioned Treaty, the following districts and territories; viz.

The lordship of Blankenhayn, with the reservation of the bailiwick of Wandersleben, belonging to Unter-Gleichen, which is not to be comprised in this cession.

The lower lordship of Kranichfeld, the commanderies of the Teutonic order Zwaetzen, Lehesten, and Liebstedt, with their demesnial revenues, which, constituting a part of the bailiwick of Eckartsberga, are

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inclosed in the territory of Saxe-Weimar, a well as all the other territories inclosed within the principality of Weimar, and be longing to the said bailiwick; the bailiwick of Tautenburg, with the exception of Droizen, Gorschen, Wethalung, Wetterscheid, and Möllschütz, which shall remain to Prussia.

The village of Remssla, as well as the villages of Klein-Brembach and Berlstedt, inclosed within the principality of Weimar, and belonging to the territory of Erfurth.

The property of the villages of Bischoffsroda and Probsteizella, inclosed within the territory of Eisenach; the sovereignty of which already belongs to his Royal Highness the Grand Duke.

The population of these different districts is understood to form part of that of 50,000 souls, secured to his Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar, by article 37, and shall be deducted from it.

XL. The department of Fulda, together with the territories of the neighbouring ancient Noblesse, comprised, at this moment, under the provisional administration of this department. viz; Mansbach, Buchenau, Werda, Lensfeld, excepting, however, the following bailiwicks and territories, viz.; the bailiwicks of Hammelburg, with Thulba and Saleck, Brückenau, with Motten, Saalmünster, with Urzel and Sonnerz; also the part of the bailiwick of Biberstein, which contains the villages of Batten, Brand, Dietges, Findlos, Liebharts, Melperz, OberBernharst, Saifferts, and Thaiden, as well as the domain of Holzkirchen, inclosed in the Grand Duchy of Wurzburg, is ceded to his Majesty the King of Prussia, and he shall be put in possession of it within three weeks from and after the 15th June of this year.

His Prussian Majesty engages to take upon himself, in proportion to that part of the territory which he obtains by the present article, his share of the obligations which all the new possessors of the heretofore grand duchy of Frankfort will have to fulfil, and to transfer such engagements to the princes with whom his majesty may hereafter make exchanges or cessions of these districts and territories of the department of Fulda.

XLI. The domains of the principality of Fulda and of the county of Hanau having been sold to purchasers, who have not as yet made good all their instalments, a commission shall be named by the princes to whom the said domains are transferred, to regulate, in an uniform manner, whatever has any reference to this transaction, and to do justice to the claims of the purchasers of the said domains. This commission shall pay particular attention to the treaty concluded at Frankfort, December 2, 1818, between the allied powers and his Royal Highness the elector of Hesse; and it is laid down as a principle, that in case the

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sale of these domains should not be considered as binding, the purchasers shall receive back the sums already discharged, and they shall not be obliged to quit before such restitution shall have had its full and entire effect.

XLII. The town and territory of Wetzlar passes, in all property and sovereignty, to his Majesty the King of Prussia.

XLIII. The following mediatised districts, viz; the possessions which the princes of Salm-Salm, and Salm Kyrbourg, the counts called the Rheinmund-Wildgrafen, and the Duke of Croy, obtained by the principal rescript of the extraordinary deputation of the Empire, of the 25th February 1803, in the old circle of Westphalia, as well as the lordships of Anholt and Gehmen, the possessions of the Duke of Looz-Corzwaren, which are in the same situation (in so far as they are not placed under the Hanoverian government), the county of Steinfurt, belonging to the Count of Bentheim-Bentheim, the county of Recklingshausen, belonging to the Duke of Aremberg, the lordships of Rheda, Gutersloh, and Gronau, belonging to the Count of Bentheim-Tecklenburg, the county of Rittberg, belonging to the Prince of Kaunitz, the lordships of Neustadt and Gimborn, belonging to the Count of Walmoden, and the lordship of Homburg, belonging to the Princes of Saxe-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, shall be placed in such relations with the Prussian monarchy as the federative constitution of Germany shall regulate for the mediatised territories.

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The possessions of the ancient and immediate nobility within the Prussian territory, and particularly the lordship of Wildenberg, in the grand Duchy of Berg, and the barony of Schauen, in the principality of Halbertadt, shall belong to the Prussian monarchy. XLIV. His majesty the King of Bavaria shall possess, for himself, his heirs and successors, in full property and sovereignty, the grand Duchy of Wurtzburg, as it was held by his Imperial Highness the Archduke Ferdinand of Austria, and the principality of Aschaffenburg, such as it constituted part of the grand Duchy of Frankfort, under the denomination of department of Aschaffenburg.

XLV. With respect to the rights and prerogatives, and the maintenance of the Prince Primate as an ancient ecclesiastical prince, it is determined;

1st. That he shall be treated in a manner analogous to the articles of the rescript, which, in 1803, regulated the situation of the secularized Princes, and to the practice observed with regard to them.

2dly. He shall receive for this purpose, dating from June 1, 1814, the sum of 100,000 florins, by payments of three months, in good specie, at the rate of 24 florins to the mark, as an annuity.

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vinces or districts of the Grand Duchy of Frankfort pass, in proportion to the part which each of them shall possess.

3dly. The advances made by the Prince Primate, from his private purse, to the general chest of the principality of Fulda, such as they have been liquidated and proved, shall be refunded to him, his heirs, or exe

cutors.

This expenditure shall be defrayed in proportions by the sovereigns who shall possess the provinces and districts composing the principality of Fulda.

4thly. The furniture and other objects which may be proved to belong to the private property of the Prince Primate, shall be restored to him.

5thly. The officers of the Grand Duchy of Frankfort, as well civil and ecclesiastical as military and diplomatic, shall be treated conformably to the principles of the 59th article of the Protocol of the Empire, dated the 25th February 1903, and from the 1st of June the pensions shall be proportionably paid by the sovereigns who enter on the possession of the states which formed the said grand duchy since the 1st of June 1914.

6thly. A commission shall be established without delay, composed of members appointed by the said sovereigns to regulate

whatever relates to the execution of the dis

positions comprised in this article.

7thly. It is understood, that in virtue of this arrangement, any claim that might be advanced against the Prince Primate, in his character of grand Duke of Frankfort, shall be annulled, and that he shall not be molested on account of any reclamation of this nature.

XLVI. The city of Frankfort, with its territory, such as it was in 1903, is declared free, and shall constitute a part of the Germanic League. Its institutions shall be founded upon the principle of a perfect equality of rights for the different sects of the Christian religion. This equality of rights shall extend to all civil and political rights, and shall be observed in all matters of government and administration. The disputes which may arise, whether in regard to the establishment of the constitution, or in regard to its maintenance, shall be referred to the Germanic diet, and can only be decided by the same.

XLVII. His Royal Highness the grand Duke of Hesse, in exchange for the Duchy of Westphalia, ceded to his majesty the King of Prussia, obtains a territory on the left bank of the Rhine, in the ancient department of Mont Tonnerie, comprising a population of 140,000 inhabitants. His royal highness shall possess this territory in full sovereignty and property. He shall likewise obtain the property of that part of the salt mines of Kreuznach which is situated on the left bank of the Nahe, but the sovereignty of them shall remain to Prussia.

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XLVIII. The landgrave of Homburg is reinstated in his possessions, revenues, rights, and political relations, of which he was deprived in consequence of the confederation of the Rhine.

XLIX. In the ci-devant department of the Sarre, on the frontiers of the states of his majesty the King of Prussia, there is reserved a district, containing a population of 69,000 souls, to be disposed of in the following manner: the Duke of Saxe Coburg and the Duke of Oldenburg shall obtain each a territory comprising 20,000 inhabitants. The Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and the landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, each a territory comprising 10,000 inhabitants; and the Count of Pappenheim a territory comprising 9,000 inhabitants.

The territory of the Count of Pappenheim shall be under the sovereignty of his Prussian majesty.

L. The acquisitions assigned by the preceding article to the Dukes of Saxe-Coburg, Oldenburg, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and the landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, not being contiguous to their respective states, their Majesties the Emperor of Austria, the Emperor of all the Russias, and the kings of Great Britain and Prussia, promise to employ

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their good offices, at the close of the present war, or as soon as circumstances shall permit, in order to procure for the said princes, either by exchanges or any other arrangements, the advantages that they are disposed to insure to them; and that the administration of the said districts may be rendered less complicated, it is agreed that they shall be provisionally under the Prussian administration for the benefit of the new proprietors.

LI. All the territories and possessions, as well on the left bank of the Rhine, in the old departments of the Sarre and MontTonnere, as in the former departments of Fulda and Frankfort, or inclosed in the adjacent countries, placed at the disposal of the allied powers, by the treaty of Paris of the 30th May 1814, and not disposed of by other articles of the present treaty, shall pass in full sovereignty and property, under the government of his majesty the Emperor of Austria.

LII. The principality of Isenburg is placed under the sovereignty of his imperial and royal apostoliek Majesty, and shall belong to him, under such limitations as the federative constitution of Germany shall regulate for the mediatised States.

NEW ACTS,

(To be continued.)

PASSED IN THE THIRD SESSION OF THE FIFTH PARLIAMENT OF THE UNITED

KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.—55 GEO. III. (1815.) [The figure which follows the date of each Act, denotes the number of sheets of which it consists: each sheet is sold for THREE-PENCE.]

CLIII. An Act for granting certain Rates on the Postage of Letters to and from Great Britain, the Cape of Good Hope, the Mauritius, and the East Indies; and for making certain Regulations respecting the Postage of Ship Letters, and of Letters in Great Britain. July

11.-4.

The Postmaster-General may establish packets and mails for the East Indies and other parts above mentioned, for the conveyance of letters from and to England at the following rates: Single letter, 3s. 6d. ; double, 75.; treble, 10s. 6d.; for every ounce weight, 14s.; and so in proportion above that weight; newspapers at the rate of 3d. per ounce, provided they be sent in covers, open at the sides or ends. A mail to be made up monthly for India. Goods allowed to be carried in the packets (except tea), if of the burden of 350 tons and upwards. Commanders of packets delaying to sail after receiving the mail, or wilfully deviating from their course, to be liable to a penalty of 500l. After the establishment, if three months elapse without dispatching a public mail, any person may carry letters without being subject to the penalties of

this act.

CLIV. An Act for fixing the Rates of Subsistence to be paid to Innkeepers and

others on quartering Soldiers. July 11.-1.

The allowance fixed for the diet of noncommissioned officers and privates after the 14th July, 1815, is 15 d. per diem, for which the innholder is to furnish one meal, viz. a hot dinner if required, to consist of 1 lb. of meat, 1 lb. of bread, 1 lb. of potatoes, or other vegetables, two pints of small beer, with vinegar, salt, and pepper. For horses quartered, 1s. 2d. per diem to be paid for hay and straw. Persons paying money to soldiers on march in lieu of furnishing diet, liable to be fined.

CLV. An Act to continue until the 5th day of July, 1816, the temporary fourth part of the Duties payable in Scotland upon Distillers' Wash, Spirits, and Licences, imposed by an Act of the 54th Year of his present Majesty; and for enabling his Majesty by Order in Council, to modify the Operations of the imposed. July 11.-1. said Act, or reduce the Duties thereby

CLVI. An Act to amend the Laws relative to the Transportation of Offenders; to continue in force until the 1st day of May, 1816. July 11.—2.

The act repeals that of 24 Gen. III. It empowers his Majesty to appoint the place

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to which convicts shall be transported; and authorizes the court in which they were tried, to order them to be transferred to the use of any person who shall contract for the due performance of such transportation. The court may appoint justices to make such contracts. His Majesty may order the removal of male prisoners reprieved during pleasure, or under sentence of transportation, to any part of England and Wales. The time of imprisonment to be deemed part of the term of transportation.

CLVII. An Act for the better examination of Witnesses in the Courts of Equity in Ireland; and for empowering the Courts of Law and Equity in Ireland to grant Commissions for taking Affidavits in all parts of Great Britain. July 11.-1.

ČLVIII. An Act to enable Grand Juries to present additional sums for Constables in Ireland, and for the secure conveyance of Prisoners. July 11.

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CLIX. An Act to amend several Acts relating to Hackney Coaches; for authorizing the licensing of an additional number of Hackney Chariots; and for licensing Carriages drawn by one horse. July 11-2.

So much of the act 54 Geo. III. c. 147, as relates to the delivering of tickets, is repealed. Two hundred more hackney chariots may be licensed. The driver of a hackney chariot not compellable to take more than three persons (not being children in arms) in the inside, and a servant on the outside; but if he actually carry any greater number, he may demand for every additional person 1s. over and above his regular fare; or if he carry such additional person into the country and back, he may demand is. for going, and 1s. for returning. The commissioners of hackney coaches are empowered to license carriages with two wheels drawn by one horse, the drivers of which shall be entitled to two-thirds of the fares established for coaches, and shall not be compellable to carry more than two persons.-So much of the act 48 Geo. III. c. 87, as relates to additional fares when driven into the country, is repealed. Any coach or chariot hired in London, Westminster, or Southwark, and discharged off the stones, after seven in the evening, between Michaelmas and Ladyday, shall be entitled to the full rate or fare allowed by the recited act to the nearest stone's end, or to any standing for coaches beyond any regular continuation of carriageway pavement where such coach or chariot shall have been hired, at the option of the person discharging; and in case it shall be driven into the country and discharged in the day-time, the driver may demand for the return to the nearest stones' end, 6d. for every mile above four miles; but no allow

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ance for return shall be made for any less distance. Drivers of coaches in which property may be left, to carry the same to the hackney coach office within four days, under a penalty not exceeding 201. Persons claiming such property to the satisfaction of the commissioners to have it returned on paying all the expences incurred; but if not so claimed within a year, to be previously ad· vertised and then sold, and the balance, after deducting expenses, to be paid to the driver by whom it was deposited. No agreement to pay more than the established fare to be binding. Drivers exacting more than the regular fare shall return the overplus paid, and be liable to a penalty not exceeding 5. to be levied by distress upon their goods and chattels. Penalty of 51. on coachmen leaving their coaches unattended. Drivers may not refuse a fare, although they may have been out twelve hours. commissioners or justices may summon on complaint, owners, drivers, assistants, or watermen before them, and fine them for insolent or abusive language, or obstructing police officers, in any sum up to 107. and in default of payment, commit them to prison for a time not exceeding two months.

The

CLX. An Act for the Encouragement of Seamen, and the more effectual Manning of his Majesty's Navy during the present War. July 11 -8.

CLXI. An Act to amend and render more effectual an Act of the 524 year of his present Majesty, to amend and regulate the Assessment and Collection of the Assessed Taxes, and of the Rates and Duties on Profits arising on Property, Professions, Trades, and Offices, in that part of Great Britain called Scotland. July 11.--1.

Collector to have an allowance of 14d. in the pound, on the money collected from April 1, 1813. Sub collectors to have 3d. Where no sub-collectors are appointed, the collector to receive an additional allowance of 1d., making together 3d in the pound.

CLXII. An Act to repeal the Excise Duties and Drawbacks on Epsom Salt. July 11-1.

CLXIII. An Act to regulate the issuing of Licences to allow Open Boats to proceed to Foreign Parts, and for revoking the same when necessary. July 11.-1.

CLXIV. An Act to exonerate in cer tain cases Foreign Spirits imported dur ing the Suspension of the Spirit Inter course between Great Britain and Ire land, from the additional Duty imposed thereon. July 11.-1.

CLXV. An Act to defray the Charge of the Pay, Clothing, and Contingent Expenses, of the Disembodied Militia, in Great Britain, and of the Miners of

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