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felves 1eft. r:d to the enjoyment of 
their rights, every kind of privilege 
and exclufive eftablifhment which 
breaks the unity of the ftate is ne- 
ceflarily annulled. 
VI. The provifional gavernment 
fhall be entrufted to an executive 
committee, who fhall be compefed 
of twenty-two members, over which 
the reigning doge fhall prefide, and 
which {hall be inftalled upon the 
14th of the prefent month of June, 
26th Prairial, the 5th year of the 
French Republic. 
VII. The citizens who fhall be 
called upon to compofe the provi- 
fienal government of the Genoefe 
Republic, are not at liberty to re- 
fufe the office without being regard- 
ed as indifferent to the welfare of 
the country, and condemned to a 
fine of two thoufand crowns. 
VIII. When the provifional go- 
vernment fhall be formed, it fhall 
determine the neceffary regulations 
for the forms of its deliberations ; 
it fhall appoint, within a week af- 
ter its inftallation, the committee 
of legiflation, empowered to frame 
the conftitution. 
IX. The provifional government 
fhall fix the juft indemnification due 
to the French who were pillaged 
upon the 3d and 4th Prairial. 
X. The French Republic, defi- 
rous of giving a proof of the inte- 
reft which it takes in the happinefs 
of the Genoefe people ; defirous of 
feeing them united, and free from 
factions, grants an amnefty to all 
the Genoefe againft whom it has 
grounds of complaint,. cither on 
account of the tranfactions of the 
$d and 4th Prairial, or on account 
of the different events which took 
place in the imperial fiefs. The 
provifional government fhall em- 
ploy its utmoft endeavours to ex- 
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tinguifh all factions, to unite all the 
citizens, and to convince them of 
the neceflity of rallying round pub- 
lic liberty, and fhall therefore grant 
a general amnefty. 
XI. The French Republic fhall 
grant its protection to the Genoefe 
Republic, and even the affiftance of 
its armies to facilitate, if neceflary, 
the execution of the above articles, 
and to maintain the integrity of the 
territory of the Genoefe Republic. 
Treaty of Peace and Friendfhip between 
the French Republic and [er Moft 
Faithful Majefty the Queen of Portu- 
gt. 
THE French Republic and Her 
Moft Faithful Majefty the Queen 
of Portugal, defirous of re-eftablith- 
ing the bonds of commerce and 
friendfhip which exifted between 
the two powers before the prefent 
war, have given full powers to enter 
into negotiations for that purpofe, 
viz. the Executive Directory, in the 
name of the French Republic, to 
citizen Charles Delacroix ; and Her 
Very Faithful Majefty to M.le Che- 
valier d’Aranjo Dazevedo, of her 
faid Majefty’s council, Gentleman 
of her Houfehold, Knight of the 
Order of Chrift, and her Envoy Ex- 
traordinary and Minifter Plenipo- 
tentiary to the Batavian Republic; 
who, after having exchanged their 
refpective powers, have concluded 
the prefent treaty of peace. 
Article I. There fhall be peace, 
friendfhip, and good underftanding 
between the French Republic and 
Her Moft Faithful Majeity the 
Queen of Portugal. 
II. All hoftinties fall ceafe, as 
well by land as by fea, reckoning 
from the exchange of the ratifica- 
tions of the prefent treaty, viz. in 
fifteen 
