[Peace. Alsace and Lorraine.] of the Prisoners as can be discharged. As for those who shall not have completed their term of service, they shall be sent beyond the Loire. It is understood that the Army of Paris and Versailles, after the re-establishment of the authority of the French Government at Paris, and until the Evacuation of the Forts by German Troops, shall not exceed 80,000 men. Until that Evacuation, the French Government shall not concentrate Troops on the Right Bank of the Loire, but it shall provide Garrisons in the Towns within that circuit, according to the necessities for the maintenance of Public Order and Peace. As the Evacuation shall proceed, the Commanders of Regiments shall agree together as to a Neutral Circuit between the Armies of the two Nations. 20,000 Prisoners shall be sent without delay to Lyons on condition that they are immediately sent to Algiers, after their organisation, to be employed in that Colony. Commerce and Navigation. Most Favoured Nation Treatment. ART. XI. The Treaties of Commerce with the different States of Germany having been annulled by the War, the French Government and the German Government will adopt as the basis of their Commercial Relations the system of reciprocal Treatment on the footing of the Most favoured Nation. Are included therein Import and Export Duties, Transit Dues, Customs Formalities, the admission and treatment of both Nations as well as their Agents. Shall nevertheless be excepted from the above Rule the favours which one of the Contracting Parties has granted or may grant, by Treaties of Commerce, to other States than the following Great Britain, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, Russia. Renewal of Navigation, Railway, and Copyright Treaties, &c. The Treaties of Navigation as well as the Convention relative to the International Service of Railways in its relation with the Cantons, and the Convention for the reciprocal Guarantee of Literary Works, shall be renewed. Reservations of French Government. The French Government nevertheless reserves to itself the right of levying Tonnage and Shipping Duties (Droit de Pavillon) [Peace. Alsace and Lorraine.] on German Vessels and their Cargoes, under the reservation that those Duties shall not be higher than those imposed on Vessels and Cargoes of the above-mentioned Nations. Rights of Germans expelled from France. ART. XII. All expelled Germans shall preserve the full and entire enjoyment of all Property which they may have acquired in France. Such Germans who had obtained the authority required by French Laws to establish their Domicile in France shall be reinstated in all their Rights, and may consequently again establish their Domicile in French Territory. Naturalisation. The delay stipulated by French Laws to obtain Naturalisation shall be considered as not having been interrupted by the state of War for persons who shall take advantage of the above-mentioned facility of returning to France within 6 months after the exchange of the Ratifications of this Treaty, and the time which has elapsed between their expulsion and their return to the French Territory shall be taken into account, as if they had never ceased to reside in France. The above conditions shall be applicable in perfect reciprocity to the French Subjects residing, or wishing to reside, in Germany. Restoration of Maritime Prizes. ART. XIII. German Vessels condemned by Prize Courts before the 2nd March, 1871, shall be considered as definitively condemned. Those not condemned at the above-mentioned date shall be restored with the Cargoes in so far as it still exists. If the restoration of the Vessels and Cargo is no more possible, their value, fixed according to the price of the sale, shall be restored to their Owners. Canalisation of the Moselle. ART. XIV. Each of the two Parties shall continue on his Territory the Works undertaken for the Canalisation of the Moselle. The Common Interests of the separate parts of two Departments of the Meurthe and the Moselle shall be liquidated. [Peace. Alsace and Lorraine.] National Treatment to respective Subjects on account of events arising out of the War. ART. XV. The High Contracting Parties mutually engage to extend to their respective Subjects the measures which they may consider necessary to adopt in favour of those of their Subjects who, in consequence of the events of the War, may have been prevented arriving in time for the safety or the preservation of their Rights. Cemeteries. ART. XVI. The two Governments, French and German, reciprocally engage to respect and preserve the Tombs of Soldiers buried in their respective Territories. Additional Stipulations reserved for further Negotiations. ART. XVII. The Regulation of additional Stipulations upon which an understanding is to be come to in consequence of this Treaty and the Preliminary Treaty, will be the object of further Negotiations which shall take place at Frankfort.* Ratifications.t ART. XVIII. The Ratification of the present Treaty by the National Assembly and by the Chief of the Executive of the French Republic, on the one part, and on the other by the Emperor of Germany, shall be exchanged at Frankfort, in the delay of 10 days, or sooner if possible. In faith whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed it and affixed thereto the Seal of their Arms. Done at Frankfort, 10th May, 1871. (L.S.) JULES FAVRE. (L.S.) POUYER-QUERTIER. (L.S.) BISMARCK. (L.S.) ARNIM. (L.S.) DE GOULARD. ADDITIONAL ARTICLES. FRANKFORT, 10TH MAY, 1871. ART. I. Purchase of Railways of the East and GuillaumeLuxemburg. ART. II. Purchase by Prussia of Rights and Property on Swiss Territory of Railways of the East. *See Additional Convention of 12th October, 1871. + Ratifications exchanged at Frankfort, 20th May, 1871, |