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Allegiance to His Majesty the King. They, including the Governor, must conscientiously observe the Constitution of the Principality which they must expressly promise to maintain. The Governor, on taking the Oath, will have to swear to be faithful and obedient to His Serene Highness the Prince with regard to the Rights reserved to the latter by Articles IV and IX of this Treaty.

Public Servants of Principalities to be employed in Prussia, or

Pensioned.

ART. VIII. The Public Servants of the Principalities at present in office, in so far as their services are no longer necessary in the Principalities in consequence of the new organisation, or in so far as they are not employed in the administration of the Princely Domains (Article X), shall be employed in Prussia, retaining their ranks and incomes, and account being taken of the length of their services. Those who do not choose or who cannot be employed in this manner will be Pensioned in accordance with the State Service Law of Waldeck, or put on half-pay. In appointing and pensioning these Public Servants, Prussia will take existing circumstances into account as much as possible.

Representation of the Country Abroad by the Prince.

ART. IX. The Representation of the Country Abroad still retained by the Prince, will be exercised by him through and under the responsibility of the Governor. The expenses will be paid, as formerly, out of the Treasury of the Country.

Administration of Domanial Property.

ART. X. The Administration of the Domanial Property described in the Compact of 16th July, 1853, &c., will not be affected by the present Treaty, and remains in the hands of His Serene Highness the Prince. No contribution is to be made from the Domains for the expenses of the State on the one hand, nor, on the other, can there be a joint use of the State appointments by the administration of the Domains.

Duration of Treaty.

ART. XI. The present Agreement will come into operation. from 1st January, 1868, for a period of 10 years, and on the expiration of that period it will be considered as prolonged for 10

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years more, unless notice to the contrary be given by one or the other of the Parties at least a year before.

Ratifications.

ART. XII. The present Agreement is to be ratified, and the Ratifications exchanged at Berlin within 4 weeks, subject to the assent of the Representative Bodies of both Countries.

In witness whereof the Plenipotentiaries have signed and sealed this Treaty.

Berlin, 18th July, 1867.

(L.S.) BERNHARD KONIG.

(L.S.) CHARLES WILLIAM VON STOCKHAUSEN. (L.S.) LEWIS KLAPP.

[Boundary:]

No. 409.-FINAL BOUNDARY ACT between Austria and Italy. Venice, 22nd December, 1867.

Reference to Treaty of 3rd October, 1866.

1. Civil Rights of private persons, communes, and corporate bodies, over lands on either side of the Boundary Line not to be interfered with. Boundary from Lake of Garda to Port of Buso.

2. Settlement of Disputes respecting the Boundary Line.

3. In Boundary Waters the Midstream forms the Separating Line, as a general rule.

4. On Public Roads the axis of the Road forms the Separating Line. Roads to be freely used by both Parties.

5. Road along the Torrent of Indrio from Prepotto to Melina, and the communication along the Torrent of Pontebbana to be free to both Parties.

6. No works to be constructed along the course of Boundary Waters for regulating them, for Navigation, or Floating of Timber, without the consent of both Parties.

7. Further arrangements to be made respecting Floating of Timber.

8. State Boundary Line as laid down by the Italiano-Illyrian Commission in 1841, to form the Boundary of private or communal Property, unless otherwise decided or agreed to.

9. Bridges recognised as at present existing across the Torrents of Cesilla, Pontebbana, Indrio, and the Canale del Taglio; maintenance and use thereof.

10. Maintenance of Boundary-marks.

11. Expenses of determining the Boundary Line.

12. Execution of the present Act.

13. Act not to be valid till Ratified by the two Sovereigns.

Ratifications.

(Translation.)

Reference to Treaty of 3rd October, 1866.

ARTICLE IV of the Treaty concluded at Vienna on the 3rd of October, 1866 (No. 392), between His Majesty the King of Italy and His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, the Ratifications of which Treaty were exchanged on the 12th of the same month, provides in order to the Teritorial Cessions therein agreed upon, that:

"The Frontier of the ceded Territory is determined by the actual administrative Limits of the Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom."

The same Article adds that:

"A Military Commission, appointed by the two Contracting.

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Powers, shall be entrusted with the execution of the tracing on the spot within the shortest possible delay."

In pursuance of this last stipulation, their Royal and Imperial Majesties have appointed as Commissioners,

His Majesty the King of Italy, Count Charles Felix Nicolis di Robilant, Major-General, &c., Baron Adrian Nicholas Mazza, Major on the Staff, &c., and Alexander de Charbonneau, Knight, his Orderly Officer, &c.;

His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, Julius Mauger von Kirchsberg, Major-General, &c., Eugene Kopfinger von Trebbienan, Colonel of Infantry, &c., and Emanuel Korwin, Knight, &c.;

Who, having assembled at Venice, after they had exchanged their Full Powers, and found them in good and due form, constituted themselves an International Commission, under the Presidency of Major-General Count di Robilant.

Major de Charbonneau was nominated to act as Secretary. The Commission at once proceeded to consider the mode of performing its task, and agreed to the following conclusions:

That the Frontier of the ceded Territory within the Limits indicated by Article IV of the Treaty of 3rd October, 1866 (No. 392), ought to be considered in general as sufficiently determined by the existing Termini and Boundary marks, good part of which had not been altered for a long time.

That the practice followed by the Austrian Government, of having partial revisions of the Boundaries at stated periods, had largely contributed to render them more certain, by removing from time to time the doubts which had arisen.

That in following out this principle, and by the existence of the special assessment books of the Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom and of the contiguous Provinces, the Territorial separation of the one from the others had always been in progress of confirmation in fact and in practice.

That therefore a new and general revision of the Frontier under the circumstances above mentioned would not have yielded an advantage proportionate to the expense, whether the intention had been to make a topographical sketch, or only to draw up a complete description of it, on which account the stipulation of the second paragraph of Article IV of the Treaty of 3rd October, 1866 (No. 392), might be considered as sufficiently fulfilled, if the Commission undertook to pay special attention to those points

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only where doubt existed respecting the precise track of the Frontier, as well as to those others where some operation might be necessary to render the State separation more manifest.

In order to obtain the most precise information respecting the points of both classes, the Italian Commission applied to the political Boundary Authorities, requesting them to call for the particulars required from the Communes interested therein. It also applied to the Financial Authorities in order to procure information from them respecting those points where it may be expedient to denote the Boundary by new or more apparent marks, for the greater convenience and security of the service.

The result of these measures, and others taken at the same time, by the Austrian Commissioners with their own Political Authorities, as well as information obtained from several sources, led the Commission to examine specially the tracts separately indicated below, with respect to which there might be reason to doubt:

1. The part of the Frontier between the left bank of the Lake of Garda and the signal of the Bocchetta, on the heights of Mount Baldo.

2. In the Territories of the Communes of Arsiè and Grigno, the divisional line in the region called the Scaffe Rosse, left undecided on account of a long standing question;

3. The tract of Frontier next the Commune of Ampezzo, to decide to which party the wood called Antipetto di San Marco belonged.

4. The tract of Boundary between Monte Maggiore and the sources of the Indrio, to arrange about the Provisional Boundary line decreed by the Austrian Government in the year 1841.

5. Finally, the tract from the meeting of the Rivulet Ausa with the Canal Medadola, up to the Port of Buso.

The Minutes of the Commission, and their extracts, a copy of which is annexed to this Act, show the arrangements and resolutions of the Commission on each of the points indicated.

With respect to the other points of the Boundary hereafter described, it was found necessary to do something to such of the existing termini and marks as were not sufficiently clear, or could no longer be found, as well as to set up new ones for the better determination of the track, viz. :

(a.) On the Lake of Garda it was found to be convenient that a very visible and plain mark should be set up at the point of the