362 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1813. 



bills of credit for the benefit of 

 their majesties the emperor of 

 all the RusSiils, and the king of 

 Prussia, for the sum of two mil- 

 lions and a half sterling, or of fif- 

 teen milHons Prussian thalers, of 

 the denomination and weight of 

 1764 ; and of this sum there shall 

 be furnished monthly one million 

 of Prussian thalers, until three 

 months after the signature of a ge- 

 neral peace, in case that it should 

 take place before the whole of the 

 said sum shall be put in circula- 

 tion. 



The value of each bill shall be 

 specified therein simultaneously in 

 Prussian thalers, and in Spanish 

 dollars, at the rate of one dollar 

 for a thaler and a half. 



The formula shall be the same 

 as that which is annexed to the 

 present instrument. The manu- 

 focture of these bills shall be exe- 

 cuted exclusively by the British 

 government as soon as possible ; 

 they shall be guaranteed by law, 

 and reimbursement thereof shall 

 be made in specie, to take place one 

 month after the ratification of a 

 general peace. 



II. Two-thirds of the sum so 

 issued each month shall be fui--' 

 nished to his majest}'^ the emperor 

 of all the Russias, for the service 

 of his army ; and the other third 

 to his majesty the king of Prussia, 

 for the service of his armj'. This 

 issue shall be computed from the 

 3rd (15th) of June of the cur- 

 rent year; so that his Britannic 

 majesty engages to place at the 

 disposal of their majesties, the 

 emperor and king, for the first 

 instalment, as many millions of 

 tlialers as there shall have been 

 months elapsed since the 3rd (15th) 

 of June last ; and thereafter a mil- 



lion each month, until the issue of 

 the fifteen millions of thalers, here- 

 in before specified, shall be com- 

 pleted. 



III. These bills of credit shall 

 be issued by miUions of thalers, 

 separatelj' classed and numbered 

 according to the date of their is- 

 sue, and each million shall be di- 

 vided into series, subdivided into, 

 numbers, in such manner that the 

 bills will exhibit the date of the 

 month in which they shall have 

 been issued, the specification of the 

 million of which they form a part, 

 and that of the series to which 

 they belong, as well as their num- 

 bers in that series. 



No bills shall be manufactured 

 of a lower amount than one hun- 

 dred Prussian thalers. 



IV. Commissioners shall be 

 named on the part of the high con- 

 tracting parties upon the continent, 

 who shall be charged to direct the 

 circulation of the said paper, in 

 conformity with the principles es- 

 tablished by the present conven- 

 tion : these commissioners shall be 

 chosen, in preference, from the 

 commercial class ; they shall be di- 

 rected to concert together upon 

 all the measures which they may 

 think useful for the credit of the 

 paper in question : and the Rus- 

 sian and Prussian commissioners 

 to whom the above-mentioned bills 

 shall be furnished, will be particu- 

 larly careful that the issue thereof 

 shall be regulated so as to prevent 

 their falling into discredit. 



V. These bills of credit shall not 

 bear interest, but a general office 

 shall be opened in such towns of 

 the North of Get many, as the Bri- 

 tish government, with the concur- 

 rence of the courts of Russia and 

 Prussia, shall point out for that 



