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ments contained in a provisional act 
concluded at Berlin, on the 15th of 
September, 1791, by their respec- 
tive ministers, to serve as the essen- 
tial basis of the future contract of 
marriage of their Royal Hignesses; 
and desiring also to provide for the 
entire and complete execution of 
the said engagements, have named 
and authorised for that salutary pur- 
pose their respective commissaries, 
viz. his Majesty the King of Great 
Britain, Sir Morton Eden, Knight 
of the Order of the Bath, and his 
Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipo- 
tentiary tohis Prussian Majesty, and 
his’Majesty the King of Prussia, his 
Ministers of State, of War, and of 
the Cabinet, Charles William Count 
de Finckenstein, Frederick William 
Count de Schulenburg, Knights of 
the Order of the Black Eagle, and 
Philip Charles Barond’Alvensleben, 
Knight of the Order of St. John ; 
who, by virtue of their respective 
full powers reciprocally communi- 
cated and exchanged, after having 
discussed all the necessary points, 
have agreed on the following ar- 
ticles : 
Article I. His Majesty the King 
of Prussia gives to the Princess his 
daughter a portion of one hundred 
thousand crowns in Frederics d'or, 
viz. Forty thousand crowns, as be- 
ing the usual portion of the: Prin- 
cesses of the House of Prussia, and 
sixty thousand crowns as parapher- 
nalia. In case the Princess should 
happen to die before her husband, 
without leaving issue, boththe sums, 
as well for the portion as for the pa- 
raphernalia, shall revertto the King 
and his successors, in as far as her 
2eyal Highness shall not have dis- 
posed of the latter; but the pro- 
duce thereof shall belong to his 
Royal Highness her husband surviv- 
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ing. His Majesty has besides pro- 
vided her Royal Highness with a 
trousseau suitable to her birth and 
rank, 
Article II, Her Royal Highness 
the Princess renounces, and by the 
act signed the 29th of September, 
1791, has renounced, conformably 
to the usage and family compact of 
the House of Prussia and Branden- 
burg, in favour of the male succes- 
sion, all right of inheritance arising 
from the said house, in the same 
manner, in the same terms, with 
the same reservations, and the same 
validity of engagements as the Prin- 
cesses of Prussia and Brandenburg 
have on their marriage done to this 
time. And his Majesty the King 
of Great Britain, in his own name, 
and in that of his son the Duke of 
York, confirms this renunciation 
in the most express and solemn 
manner. 
Article III. His Royal Highness 
the Duke of York having promised 
to give to the Princess his wife, as 
the gift on the day after the mar- 
riage, called by the name of Mor- 
gengabe, the sum of six thousand 
poundssterling,the interest of which 
was to be paid fromthe 15th of Sep- 
tember 1791, and to make part ot 
the sum fixed for pin-money, and 
for the annual expences of her 
Royal Highness, without her Royal 
Highness having however any pow- 
er of disposing of the capital during 
the life of her husband. His Majes- 
ty the King of Great Britain con- 
firms this engagement. 
Article 1V. His Royal Highness 
the Duke of York having promised 
to pay annually, and during the 
whole time of her marriage, to her 
Royal Highness, for her pin-mo- 
ney and daily expences, known by 
the name of Kleider, Hand, and 
Sprelgelder, 
