[Peace. Alsace-Lorraine.] No. 448.-PROTOCOLS OF CONFERENCES between France and Germany. Frankfort, July-December, 1871. Protocol. No. 1. Choice of Nationality. Domiciled Aliens. Choice of Nationality by Minors. Competent Authority to receive the Declaration in ceded Territories. Power to Natives of Alsace-Lorraine to return to that Country after choice of French Nationality. Freedom of circulation for those who have not yet made their Choice. Question as to their being French or Germans. Pensions. Doctors and Chemists. Ministerial Offices. Diocesan Circumscriptions and Religious Corporations. Amnesty. Exchange of Criminals and Lunatics. Execution of Contracts, Judgments, &c. Wood-cutting in Forests of the State. Judicial Expenses. Judicial Documents. Mortgages. Archives and Documents. Patents of Invention. Frontier Relations. Maintenance and Cleansing of Waterways; Canals; Concessions of Roads and Rivers. Railways of local interest. Transit. Private Debts of the Treasury. Contributions and Requisitions. Frankfort, 6th July, 1871. No. 2. Execution of Judgments. Nationality. Choice by Minors. Freedom of circulation to Alsace-Lorraines who have not yet made their Choice. Renewal of Treaties. Trade Marks. Admission of Produce from Alsace. Registration and Deposit by Booksellers. Restitution of Funds belonging to Communes. Treasury Accounts of ceded Territories. Local Railways. Desaix Monument at Strasburg, &c. Railways sequestered during the War. Frankfort, 13th July, 1871. No. 3. Postal Arrangements. Frankfort, 24th July, 1871. No. 4. Archives and Documents of Railways of the East (de l'Est). Nationality. Liberation of Alsatian Soldiers. Frankfort, 26th July, 1871. No. 5. Stamps of the Mints of Strasburg, Italy, and Colmar. Military Pensions. Arrears of Pensions advanced by France. Amnesty Funds. Renewal of Treaties. Definition of the Word Origi- No. 6. Canal of Salt Works of Dieuze. Local Railways. Private Debts of the Treasury. Amnesty Funds. Debts of Communes and Departments. Archives and Documents. Bank of France. Amnesty. Machinery for verifying Weights and Measures. Securities and Judicial or Administrative Deposits. Plans and Documents of the Railway of the East. Frankfort, 26th September, 1871. [Peace. Alsace-Lorraine.] Protocol. No. 7. Railways sequestered during the War. Definition of the Word Originaires. Preamble adopted after Amendment of Official Title of President of the Republic. Delay for Choice of Nationality. Pensions. Amnesty Funds. Doctors and Chemists. Ministerial Offices. Religious Corporations. Amnesty. Frankfort, 19th October, 1871. No. 8. Pensions. Mutual and Provident Companies. Arrears of Pensions advanced by France. Doctors and Chemists. Ministerial Offices. Amnesty. Mortgages. Diocesan Circumscriptions. Patents of Invention. Debts and Credits of ceded Territories. Demands made since the 2nd March. Mixed Commission. Transit. Private Claims. Bank of France. Frankfort, 2nd November, 1871. No. 9. Mixed Financial Commission. Railways from Audun to Longwy, and from Sierck to Mettrich, from Nancy to Chateau-Salins and Vic, from Avricourt to Cirey. Declarations to be inserted in Final Protocol. Ministerial Offices. Declarations to be inserted in explanatory Protocol. Joint Stock Companies in AlsaceLorraine and in France. Life and Fire Insurance Companies. Frankfort, 4th November, 1871. No. 10. Definition of the Word Originaires. Judicial Expenses. Religious Corporations. Amnesty. Contributions and Demands made since the 2nd March. Bank of France. Frankfort, 7th November, 1871. No. 11. Final Arrangements. Definition of the Word Originaires. Pensions. Ministerial Offices. Diocesan Circumscriptions. Amnesty. Dieuze Canal. Contributions and Requisitions. Local Railways. Transit. Postal. Alsatian Soldiers. Arrears of Pensions advanced by France. Pension Funds, &c. Patents of Invention. Bank of France. Sequestrations on Funds. Sequestered Railways. Explanatory Protocol. Frankfort, 24th November, 1871. No. 12. Definition of the Word Originaires. Railways. Pensions. Postal Arrangements. Bank of France. Patents of Invention. Judicial Frankfort, 28th November, 1871. Expenses. No. 13. Ministerial Offices. Requisitions and Contributions. Railways sequestered during the War. Bank of France. Transit. Postal Arrangements. Patents of Invention. Railway from Nancy to [Peace.] No. 449.-ADDITIONAL CONVENTION to the Treaty of Peace of 10th May, 1871, between France and Germany. Signed at Frankfort, 11th December, 1871. ART. TABLE. Preamble. Reference to Treaty of 10th May, 1871. 1. Choice of Nationality by Natives (Originaires) residing out of the ceded Territories. 2. Civil and Religious Pensions. Military Pensions. 3. Execution of Judgments. Judicial Proceedings. 4. Exchange of Criminals. Exchange of Lunatics. 5. Expenses of Criminal Justice. 6. Judicial Documents. Reports of Sentences. 7. Guarantee of Mortgage Rights. 8. Reciprocal restitution of all Titles, Plans, Surveys, and Documents belonging to Communes of new Territories. 9. Diocesan Circumscriptions crossed by the New Frontier. 10. Patents of Invention. 11. Appointment of Financial Commission. 12. Articles free from Export and Import Duties to facilitate the farming of Lands and Forests on Neighbouring Frontiers. 13. Recognition by German Government of Concessions of Roads, Canals, and Mines granted by French Government and Authorities in ceded Territories. Financial Mixed Commission to take Charge of Accounts of Works on both sides of the Frontier. 14. Payment by Germany of Expenses of Canals of the Sarre, Dieuse, and Colmar. Payment of Annuities to Old Subscribers of the Canal of the Rhone to the Rhine. Financial Mixed Commission to undertake the Accounts. Mixed Commission relative to Canals from the Rhone to the Rhine, and from the Marne to the Rhine. 15. Appointment of Mixed Commissions for Maintenance of Frontier Water ways. 16. Railways. 17. Customs Offices on Railways. 18. Renewal of Treaties and Conventions between France and German States existing before the War. Exceptions. Treaties provisionally applicable to Alsace-Lorraine. 19. Ratifications. Closing Protocol. 1. French Soldiers and Sailors to be liberated on making a Declaration of their Choice for German Nationality. 2. Reimbursement to France of Pensions paid by the French Treasury since the 2nd March, 1871. 3. Liquidation of Pension, Provident and other Funds in case one or more of their Members make Choice of French Nationality. 6. Reimbursement of Funds belonging to Communes of ceded Territories deposited in the Coffers of Colmar, Strasburg, and Metz. 7. Reimbursement of Securities. 8. Recovery of Debts by French Government. 9. Liquidation by Branch Establishments of the Bank of France in the ceded Territories. Liquidator to complete his operations within 3 months after the Ratification of the Additional Convention. Withdrawal of Sequestration of Moneys belonging to Bank of France, and Restitution in Coin. Ratifications. Protocol of Signature. French Reservations relative to the Right of Felling Timber in the Forests of the States granted during the War on French Territory by German Civil and Military Authorities. Declaration of German Plenipotentiaries relative to the Railway from Nancy to ChateauSalins and Vic. Procès-Verbal of the Exchange of the Ratifications. Delivery of Adhesions of German States to Article XVIII of the Additional Convention of 11th December, 1871, relative to the renewal of Treaties. Declaration of German Ambassador relative to Copyright Conventions and Treaties of Navigation. (Translation.) Reference to Treaty of 10th May, 1871. THE President of the French Republic, on the one part, and His Majesty the Emperor of Germany on the other part, having determined, in conformity with Article XVII of the Treaty of Peace concluded at Frankfort on the 10th May, 1871 (No. 446), to negotiate an Additional Convention to that Treaty, have to that effect appointed as their Plenipotentiaries, namely: The President of the French Republic, M. Marc Thomas Eugène de Goulard, Member of the National Assembly, and M. Alexandre Johann Henry de Clercq, Minister Plenipotentiary of the First Class; and His Majesty the Emperor of Germany, M. Weber, Councillor of State of His Majesty the King of Bavaria, and Count Uxkull, Intimate Councillor of Legation of His Majesty the King of Wurtemberg; Who, after having communicated to each other their Full [Peace.] Powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon the following Articles : ARTS. I to VIII. (See Table.) Diocesan Circumscriptions crossed by the New Frontier. ART. IX. Until the conclusion of the arrangements alluded to in the first paragraph of Article VI of the Treaty of Peace of 10th May, 1871 (No. 446), it is agreed that the Bishops established in the Dioceses crossed by the New Frontier shall preserve, in their entirety, the spiritual authority actually vested in them, and shall remain free to provide for the religious necessities of the populations committed to their charge. ARTS. X to XIII. (See Table.) Payment by Germany of Expenses of Canals of the Sarre, Dieuse, and Colmar. ART. XIV. The Canal of the Sarre, the Canal of the Salt Works of Dieuse, and the junction of Colmar, which forms the communication between that town and the Rhine, being entirely included within the Territories ceded to Germany, the latter takes upon herself the payment of the expenses of those 3 canals remaining due. The Annuities still due on the sum advanced to the French State by the Town of Colmar, and by the manufacturers of the East, shall, dating from 1871, be payable by the German Government. Payment of Annuities to Old Subscribers of the Canal of the Rhone to the Rhine. The Canal of the Rhone to the Rhine being crossed by the New Frontier, it has been agreed that the 12 Annuities remaining to be paid to the old Subscribers on the purchase of their shares shall be divided between the High Contracting Parties in the proportion of the extent reverting to each of the two Countries. Financial Mixed Commission to undertake the Accounts. The Commission mentioned in Article XI shall be entrusted with the Accounts of the above mentioned Canals, as well as the liquidation of the Accounts relative to the canalisation of the Moselle, and of the common interests of the separate parts of the Departments of the Meurthe and the Moselle. |