344 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1797. 
Republic, which Republic fhall pof- 
feis them in entire fovereignty, 
with all the territorial effeéts be- 
longing to them. 
VII. His Majefty the Emperor 
and King acknowledges the Cifal- 
pine Republic as an independent 
power. This Republic compre- 
hends the ¢i-devaut Auftrian Lom- 
bardy, the Bergamafque, the Bref- 
fan, the Cremafque, the city and 
fortrefs of Mantua, Pefchiera, that 
part of the ¢i-devazt Venetian ftates 
which is to the weft and fouth of 
the line pointed out in Article VI, 
for the frontier of the ftates of his 
Majefty the Emperor in Italy ; the 
Modenois, the principality of Maf- 
fa and Carara, and the three lega- 
tions of Bologna, Ferrara, and Ro- 
magna, 
IX. In all the countries ceded, 
acquired, or exchanged by the pre- 
fent treaty, there fhall. be granted 
to all the inhabitants and proprie- 
tors of every fort a removal of the 
{equeftrations laid upon their pro- 
perty, effects, and revenues, on ac- 
count of the war between his Im- 
perial and Royal Majefty and the 
French Republic, and they fhall not 
be difturbed, with refpeét to it, in 
their efivats or perfons. Thofe who 
may with to quit, for the future, the 
faid countries, fhall be obliged to 
make a declaration to that effec 
three months after the publication 
of the faid treaty. They fhall then 
have the term of three years to fell 
their effects, moveable or immove- 
‘able, or to difpofe of them at their 
pleafure. 
X. Debts for which the foil of 
the countries ceded, acquired, or 
exchanged by this treaty fhall be 
mortgaged, are the debts of thofe to 
whom the countries remain. 
~X{. The navigation of thofe parts 
of the rivers and canals which ferve 
as limits between the territories of 
his Majefty and thofe of the Cifal- 
pine Republic fhall be free, fo that 
neither party can eftablifh any toll, 
or maintain any veffel armed for 
war; but this article does not ex- 
clude the precautions neceflary to 
the fafety of the fortrefs of Porto- 
Legnago. 
XII. All fales and alienations 
made, and all engagements con- 
tracted, either by the cities or by 
the government, or by the civil and 
adminiftrative authorities, of the 
gi-devant Venetian countries, for 
the maintenance of the German 
and French armies, up to the date 
of the figning of the prefent trea- 
ty, fhall be confirmed and regard- 
ed as valid. 
XJIE. The titles and archives of 
the different countries ceded or ex- 
changed by the prefent treaty, fhall 
be delivered within three months 
from the exchange of the ratifica- 
tions, to the powers which have 
acquired the property of them. 
The plans and charts of the for-’ 
treffes, cities, and countries, which 
the contracting parties acquire by 
the prefent treaty, fhall be alfo 
faithfully delivered to them. The 
military papers and regifters taken 
in the prefent war, fhall be deliver- 
ed to the Etat-Majors of the refpect- 
ive armies. 
XIV. The two contracting par- 
ties, equally animated with the de- 
fire of removing whatfoever might 
injure the good intelligence happily 
eflablifhed between them, engage 
themfelves, in the moft folemn 
manner, to contribute every thing 
in their power to maintain the in- 
terior tranquillity of their refpect- 
ive ftates. 
XV. A treaty of commerce fhall 
be fpeedily concluded upon an 
equitable bafis, and fuch as fhall af- 
fure 
