STATE PAPERS. 
province of Alsace, with all its 
rights and dependencies, together 
with the arrears of the said rights 
and revenues, which might remain 
due, renouncing all demands upon 
the republic thereto relating, and 
for every other cause anterior to 
the present treaty. 
6. His serene highness the mar- 
grave of Baden also cedes for him- 
self and his successors, all the 
islands of the Rhine which may 
beiong to him, all the rights to 
which he may pretend upon the 
said islands, as likewise upon the 
course and the different branches 
of that river; especially the rights 
of tolls, high jurisdiction, direct 
lordship, civil or criminal justice, 
-or police. 
There shall not be included, un-= 
der the denomination of the different 
arms of the Rhine, the small 
branches, and the dead or stagnant 
waters left in conSequence of the 
inundations of the ancient course 
of the river, and known to the 
watermen by the names of Alt- 
-wasser, Alt Rhine, or Old Rhine. 
7. Each of the contracting par- 
ties shall be at liberty to finish the 
work of the dykes, which may be 
thought necessary for the preser- 
vation of ‘his territory; but this 
is to be done so as not to injure the 
country on the opposite bank. All 
disputes which may arise from this 
object, as also from the establish- 
‘ment and preservation of the tow- 
ing path, shall be decided by juri- 
dical means, between the respective 
governments. 
8. His serene highness engages 
to leave, or cause to be left, on the 
right bank of the Rhine, a space 
of thirty-six feet broad, to serve” 
as a towing-road in the navigable 
parts, or in those which may be- 
come so. Thisroad shall be cleared 
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of every thing that may injure its 
usage. It is, however, agreed, that 
the houses which stand on the 
ground which it is to take up, or 
which would be necesSary for con- 
tinuing it, shail not be demolished 
without paying a just and previous 
indemnity to the owner. 
9. The punishment of offences 
relative to navigation, which may 
be committed on the said towing- 
road, shall belong to the French 
republic. 
10, The portions of that road, 
as likewise the islands on that 
river, which belonged by special 
right to his serene highness, or 
which were possessed by ecclesias- 
tical bodies or commonalties, are 
ceded, without reserve, to the ree 
public. The lay or private com- 
munities shall continue to enjoy, 
under the sovereignty of the repub- 
lic, the portions which were in 
their possession. It is however 
agreed, that the said sovereignty 
shall not be exercised over houses 
depending on tbe margraviate, 
which may be deemed necessary 
for continuing the towing-way, 
but only on their sites, after they 
shall have been demolished in exe- 
cution of Art. 8. 
11. The navigation of the: river 
shall be free for the citizens and 
the subjects of both contracting 
parties. 
12. The tolls gathered on that 
part of the river Rbine which 
flows between the dominions of the 
contracting parties are abolished 
for ever. There shall be none 
established hereafter on the natural 
bed of the river. 
13. The stipulations contained 
in the preceding treaties between 
France on the one part, and_ his 
serene highness the margrave of 
Baden, or the emperor and the 
empire, 
