[Navigation of the Pruth.]

No. 436.-REGULATIONS agreed upon between the Commissioners of Austria, Russia, and Roumania, for the Navigation and Police of the River Pruth. Signed at

27th January

Bucharest, 8th February 1871.

Preamble. Reference to Convention of 15th December, 1866.

to Regulations for Vessels crossing or Passing each other.

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to

Special Arrangements relative to the Works of Improvement to be undertaken in the Pruth.

TITLE III.

Application on the Pruth of the Customs Laws of the Riverain States.

TITLE IV.

Officers to superintend the Police of the Navigation, and levying of
Taxes on the Pruth.

TITLE V

Contraventions.

Chapter I.

85. Final Arrangement.

[Navigation of the Pruth.]

(Translation.)

Reference to Convention of 5th December, 1866.

THE Mixed Commission of the Pruth:

3rd

15th

In execution of Article XXVI of the Convention signed at Bucharest on the December, 1866 (No. 401), between the Commissioners of Austro-Hungary, Russia, and Roumania, declaring that the Navigation of the Pruth should be settled by a Regulation of Navigation and Police, prepared by the said Mixed Commission and approved by the 3 Signatory Governments; Conclude the following Regulations :

ARTS. I to LXXXIV (see Table).

Final Arrangement.

ART. LXXXV. The present Regulation may be modified, when necessary, by the permanent Mixed Commission.

Done at Bucharest, the

27th January
8th February'

1871.

POTTENBURG.
D'OFFENBERG.
P. DONICE.

[Armistice.]

No. 437.-ADDITIONAL CONVENTION between France and the Germanic Confederation for extending the Armistice to the Departments of the Doubs, the Jura, the Côte d'Or, and before the Fortress of Belfort. Signed at Versailles, 15th February, 1871.

Preamble. Reference to Convention of 28th January, 1871.

1. Surrender of Fortress of Belfort with War Material. Garrison to leave with Honours of War. Cominanders of Belfort and of besieging Army to Settle Details.

2. German Prisoners in Belfort to be set at Liberty.

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& Line of Demarcation between the French and German Armies.

4.

5. Departments of the Jura, Doubs, and Côte d'Or to be included in Armistice Convention of 28th January, 1871.

(Translation.)

Reference to Convention of 28th January, 1871.

THE Undersigned, furnished with Powers in virtue of which they concluded the Convention of 28th January, 1871 (No. 434); considering that by the said Convention it was reserved to a subsequent understanding to terminate the Military Operations in the Departments of the Doubs, Jura, Côte d'Or, and before Belfort, and to trace the Line of Demarcation between the German occupation and the positions of the French Army, commencing at Quarré-les-Tombes, in the Department of the Yonne, have concluded the following Additional Convention :

ARTS. I to V (see Table).

Done at Versailles, 15th February, 1871.

(L.S.) JULES FAVRE. (L.S.) v. BISMARCK.

[Conventions for the suspension of Hostilities, and for the surrender of the Fortress of Belfort, were signed at Belfort on the 13th and 16th February, 1871.]

[Peace. Alsace and Lorraine.]

No. 438.-PRELIMINARY TREATY OF PEACE between France and Germany. Signed at Versailles, 26th February, 1871.*

1. Renunciations by France in favour of Germany. Line of New Frontier between France and Germany. International Boundary Commission to be appointed. Duties of Commissioners. Map of Frontier. Alteration in Boundary Map. France to retain Town and Forts of Belfort.

2. Indemnity to be paid by France. Time of Payment of Indemnity. 3. Evacuation of French Territory by German Troops. Gradual Evacuation according to Payments made. Conditions for Payment of the last 3 Billions of Indemnity.

4. Maintenance of German Troops of Occupation.

5. Provisions to be made in favour of Inhabitants of ceded Territories. 6. Prisoners of War.

7. Negotiations for Definitive Treaty of Peace.

8. Administration of Occupied Departments to be made over to French Authorities. Taxes in Occupied Departments to be levied by and for the use of the French Government.

9. German Military Authority not to extend to unoccupied Territory. 10. Ratifications.

Accession of Bavaria and Wurtemberg.

(Translation.†)

BETWEEN the Chancellor of the Germanic Empire, Count Otto de Bismarck-Schönhausen, furnished with Full Powers from His Majesty the Emperor of Germany, King of Prussia; the Minister of State and of Foreign Affairs of His Majesty the King of Bavaria, Count Otto de Bray - Steinburg; the Minister for Foreign Affairs of His Majesty the King of Wurtemberg, Baron Auguste de Wächter; the Minister of State, President of the Council of Ministers of His Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Baden, Monsieur Jules Jolly, representing the Germanic Empire, on the one part; and on the other part, the Chief of the Executive Power of the French Republic, Monsieur Thiers, and the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Monsieur Jules Favre, representing France; the Full Powers of the two Contracting Parties having been found in good and due form, the following has been agreed upon, to serve as a Preliminary Bases to the Definitive Peace to be concluded hereafter.

*Acceded to by Baden, Bavaria, and Wurtemberg on the same day. For French Version, see "State Papers," vol. lxi.

[Peace. Alsace and Lorraine.]

Renunciations by France in favour of Germany.

ART. I. France renounces in favour of the German Empire all her Rights and Titles over the Territories situated on the East of the Frontier hereafter described.

Line of new Frontier between France and Germany.

The Line of Demarcation begins at the North-west Frontier of the Canton of Cattenom, towards the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg, follows on the South the Western Frontiers of the Cantons of Cattenom and Thionville, passes by the Canton of Briey, along the Western Frontiers of the Communes of Montjois-la-Montagne and Roncourt, as well as the Eastern Frontiers of the Communes of Marie-aux-Chênes, St. Ail, Habonville, reaches the Frontier of the Canton de Gooze, which it crosses along the Communal Frontiers of Vionville, Bouxières, and Onville, follows the South-west Frontier, south of the District of Metz, the Western Frontier of the District of Chateau-Salins, as far as the Commune of Pettoncourt, taking in the Western and Southern Frontiers thereof to follow the Crest of the Mountains between Seille and Moncel, as far as the Frontier of the District of Sarreburg, to the South of Garde. The demarcation afterwards coincides with the Frontier of that District as far as the Commune of Tanconville, reaching the Frontier to the North thereof, from thence it follows the Crest of the Mountains between the Sources of the White Sarre and Vezouze, as far as the Frontier of that Canton of Schirmeck, skirts the Western Frontier of that Canton, includes the Communes of Saales, Bourg-Bruche, Colroy-la-Roche, Plaine, Ranrupt, Saulxures, and St. Blaise-la-Roche of the Canton of Saales, and coincides with the Western Frontier of the Departments of the Lower Rhine and the Upper Rhine as far as the Cantons of Belfort, the Southern Frontier of which it leaves not far from Vourvenans, to cross the Canton of Delle at the Southern Limits of the Communes of Bourogne and Froide Fontaine, and to reach the Swiss Frontier skirting the Eastern Frontiers of the Communes of Jonchery and Delle.

International Boundary Commission to be appointed.

The German Empire shall possess these Territories in perpetuity in all Sovereignty and Property. An International Commission, composed of an equal number of Representatives of the two High Contracting Parties, shall be appointed immediately See Definitive Treaty of Peace of 10th May, 1871, Art. I.