[Westphalia, Mayence, &c.] Works of Kreuznach, with the exception of their present director, the Prussian Commissioner. Salt from Works of Kreuznach to be free from Duty. Salt prepared in Salt Works of Hesse-Darmstadt to be considered as Foreign Salt in Prussia. Price of Salt to be fixed. Engagement of Prussia not to erect new Salt Works. Stores of Wood and Charcoal to be paid by Hesse-Darmstadt. ART. XXII. The Salt from the Salt Works of Kreuznach shall not be subject to any tax or duty whatever, either on its preparation or exportation. Wood and Charcoal, and other Articles required for manufacturing the Salt, or constructing and repairing the Salt Works, are equally exempt from any import duty. But these Privileges and Immunities shall not extend to the personal imposts on those individuals employed in making the Salt or superintending the Salt Works, who are Prussian subjects. The inhabitants of the Salt Works, not originally Prussian subjects, shall be subject to the same laws, and considered in the same relation, as other foreigners domiciliated in the Prussian Monarchy. The Salt prepared in the Salt Works ceded to His Royal Highness the Grand Duke, shall be considered, in the Prussian States, as Foreign Salt, and as such shall be subject to all the duties and regulations, which now or hereafter may exist in the kingdom of Prussia, respecting Foreign Salt. With a view to prevent the difference between the prices of Salt in the Hessian and Prussian States, on the left bank of the Rhine, from encouraging the fraudulent importation of Salt from the Salt Works of Kreuznach into the Grand Duchy of the Lower Rhine, the Grand Ducal Government shall agree with the Prussian Authorities in fixing a price, which shall be renewed every ten years. They shall also determine upon the measures necessary to prevent smuggling, as well with regard to the exportation of Salt as to the importation of the materials required in its manufacture, or for constructing or repairing the Salt works. His Prussian Majesty engages not to establish any new Salt Work in the Banlieu of Kreuznach that can injure the working of those ceded to His Royal Highness the Grand Duke, whether as relating to the Salt Springs or to the Waters of the Nahe. The stores of Wood and Charcoal found in the magazines on the day of the transfer, shall remain to the Prussian Government, to [Westphalia, Mayence, &c.] be ceded to the Grand Ducal Administration: and if the Prussian Government should not have paid for them, the Grand Ducal Administration shall fulfil the contracts made by the said Government for those articles; and in the contrary case, the Administration shall repay the Prussian Government the prime cost of the said stores within the space of 6 months. The stores of Salt shall be at the disposal of the Prussian Government. Passage and Floatage of Wood and Charcoal for Salt Works of Kreuznach. ART. XXIII. The Grand Ducal Government of Hesse shall have a right to convey the necessary quantities of Wood and Charcoal for supplying the Salt works of Kreuznach, through the Prussian States, without experiencing any restraint with regard thereto, and shall only pay the ordinary Duties for Passage and Floatage; at the same time attending to the existing ordinances and regulations of the Police. The Floatage Duties for those Articles on the Nahe shall not be augmented beyond the present Tariff. His Majesty the Emperor of Austria and His Majesty the King of Prussia engage to use their persevering intervention, for the purpose of procuring for the Grand Ducal Government of Hesse similar facilities for conveying and Floating Wood and Charcoal through the Bavarian States, from Kaiserlautern to Kreuznach. Military Road through States of Hesse-Darmstadt. ART. XXIV. His Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Hesse consents that Prussia shall have a military road through His States, for troops passing from Erfurt by Eisenach, Hersfeld, Giessen and Wetzlar to Coblentz, and that those which come from, or are destined to Mayence, shall take the road of Coblentz by Bingen. Special Conventions to regulate Military Roads. The Convention to be concluded in the course of three months relative to these objects, shall be regulated according to that which shall be agreed to, with regard to the Prussian military roads through the States of the King of Hanover and of the Elector of Hesse. The same Convention shall regulate the billet stations (places d'étapes) on those roads. [Westphalia, Mayence, &c.] It is agreed that the regulation of billet stations for the Austrian troops destined to form a part of the garrison of Mayence, shall be reserved for a Separate Convention between the respective Governments. His Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Hesse also consents that Bavaria shall have a military road through His States, for troops passing from the Bavarian Provinces on the right bank of the Rhine to those recently acquired on the left bank of that river. All that relates to billet stations, the maintenance and transport of troops, and other objects of Administration, shall be regulated by a Separate Convention between His Majesty the King of Bavaria and His Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Hesse, Transfer of ceded Districts and Territories. ART. XXV. The transfer of the Districts and Territories, mutually ceded and transferred, by Articles I., II., III., IV., V., VII., and VIII. of the present Treaty, shall be made on the 7th of July in the present year, by means of Procès Verbaux which shall be drawn up at Frankfort, and signed by the Plenipotentiaries of the several Princes, under whose Sovereignty these Districts shall pass. Actual possession of these districts shall be given immediately after signing the Procès Verbaux. Transfer of Salt Works of Kreuznach. The transfer of the Salt works of Kreuznach and its dependencies shall be made in like manner, and the Grand Ducal Authorities shall receive these Salt works with the same titles, rights, and pretensions, relative to the property in the said Salt works, as well as with the same tools and utensils used in working them, as were transferred to the Prussian Government. These Salt works shall commence working, on account of His Royal Highness, on the 1st day of July of this year. Guarantee of Sovereignty of States to Hesse-Darmstadt. ART. XXVI. His Majesty the Emperor of Austria and His Majesty the King of Prussia Guarantee to His Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Hesse, the full and entire Sovereignty of His States, as well as the Integrity of His possessions, in the state described in the present Treaty. [Westphalia, Mayence, &c.] Ratifications. ART. XXVII. The present Treaty shall be ratified, and the Ratifications exchanged at Frankfort within the space of six weeks, or sooner if possible. In testimony whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have hereunto affixed their Signatures and the Seals of their Arms. Done at Frankfort on the Mayne, the 30th of June, 1816. (L. S.) WESSENBERG. (L.S.) HARNIER. (L.S.) LE BARON DE HUMBOLDT. (L. S.) LE BARON DE MÜNCH. [Westphalia, Mayence, &c.] No. 59.-TREATY between Great Britain and HesseDarmstadt. Signed at Frankfort, 30th June, 1816. [This Treaty formed Annex III. to the General Treaty of Frankfort of 20th July, 1819.] (Translation as laid before Parliament.*) In the Name of the Most Holy and Undivided Trinity. HIS MAJESTY the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland anxious to evince His entire participation in the Territorial Arrangements discussed, agreed upon, and determined by common consent, in the Conferences at Frankfort on the Mayne, between His Plenipotentiary and the Plenipotentiaries of their Imperial and Royal Majesties the Emperor of Austria, the Emperor of Russia, His Majesty the King of Prussia, and His Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Hesse; and desiring at the same time to give a fresh proof of His friendship for His Royal Highness, by the furtherance of His wish that a Treaty should be immediately signed with His said Royal Highness, conformably to the arrangements in question; His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and His Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Hesse, have to this effect named for Plenipotentiaries, viz: His said Majesty, the Right Honourable Richard le Poer Trench, Earl of Clancarty, Viscount Dunlo, Baron Kilconnel, Baron Trench of Garbally of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, &c. And His Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Hesse, the Sieur Henry William Charles de Harnier, His Royal Highness's Privy Councillor, His Envoy Extraordinary at the Royal Court of Bavaria, and His Minister Plenipotentiary at the Diet of the Germanic Confederation. And the Sieur Henry Baron de Münch of Bellinghausen, His Privy Councillor and Director of the Chamber of Finance of the Province of Hesse. For French version, see "State Papers," vol. vii., p. 39. † 23rd November, 1813. See Appendix. |