7 STATE 
Baden, his cabinet. minister the 
baron of Reitzenstein ; his imperial 
highness the duke of Berg, baron 
Von: Schele; the landgrave of 
- Hesse-Darmstadt, his ambassador 
extraordinary, baron Von Pappen- 
heim ; the princes of Nassau-Weil- 
burg, and Usingea, baron Von Ga- 
gern ; the princes of Hohenzollern- 
Hechingen, and Siegmaringen, ma- 
jor Von Fischer; the prince of 
Isenburg, Birstein, his privy-coun- 
sellor, M. Von Grentze ; the duke of 
Ahremberg, and the count of Leyen, 
Mr. Durand St. André; who have 
agreed upon the following articles. 
Art. I. The states of the contract- 
ing princes (enumerated as in the 
preamble,) shall be for ever sepz- 
_ rated from the Germanic body, and 
united, by a particular confedera- 
tion, under the designation of .‘* the 
confederated states of the empire.” 
Art. I. All the laws of the em- 
pire, by which they have been 
hitherto bound, shall be in future 
null and without force, with the 
exception of the statutes relative to 
_ debts determined in the recess of the 
deputation of 1803, and in the pa- 
_ ragraph upon the navigation, to be 
funded upon the shipping tolls, 
which statutes shall remain in full 
_ vigour and execution. 
_ Art. WI. Each of the contract. 
ing princes renounces such of his 
titles as refer to his connection with 
the German empire, and they will, 
on the first of August, declare their 
_ entire separation from it. 
Art. LV. The elector arch-chan- 
_cellor shall take the title of prince 
primate and most eminent highness. 
(given in French, altesse eminentis~ 
_sime) which title shall convey no 
_ prerogative derogatory to the entire 
sovereignty which every one of the 
_ contracting princes shall enjoy. 
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Art. V. The elector of Baden, 
the duke of Berg, and the landgrave 
of Hesse-Darmstadt shall take the 
title of grand dukes, and enjoy the 
rights, honours, and prerogatives 
belonging to the kingly dignity. 
Their rank and precedence shal) be 
in the same order as they are men- 
tioned in Art, I. The chief of the 
Houses of Nassau shall take the title 
of duke, and the count of Leyen 
that of prince. 
Art. VI. The affairs of the con- 
federation shall be discussed in a 
congress of the union (Diéte) whose 
place of sitting shall be in Frank. 
fort, and the congress shall be di- 
vided into two colleges, the kings 
and the princes. 
Art. VII. The members of the 
league must be independent of every 
foreign power. They cannot, in 
any wise, enter into any other ser- 
vice, but that of the states of the 
confederation and its allies. Those 
who have been hitherto in the ser- 
vice of a foreign power, and chuse 
to adhere to it, shall abdicate their 
principality in favour of one of 
their children. : 
Art. VIII. Should any of the 
said princes be disposed to alienate 
the whole or any part of his sove- 
reignty, he can only do it in favour 
of the confederates. 
Art. IX. All disputes which 
may arise anong the members of 
the league shall be ;settled in the 
assembly at Frankfort. 
Art..X. In this the prince pri- 
mate shail preside, and when it shall 
happen that the two colleges have 
to deliberate upon any subject, he 
shall then preside in the college of 
kings, and the duke of Nassau in 
that of the princes. 
Art. XI. The time when the con- 
gress of the league, or either of the 
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