STATE 
shall be tried by their peers. Their 
fortune shall not in any event be 
confiscated, but the reyenues may, 
during the ‘life- time of the criminal, 
be sequestrated. 
Art. XXIX. The confederate 
states shall contribute to the pay- 
ment of the debts of their circle, as 
well for their old as their new pos- 
sessions. ‘The debts of the circle of 
Suabia shall be put to the account 
of the kings of Bavaria and Wir- 
temberg, the grand duke of Baden, 
_ the princes of Hohenzollern, Hech- 
ingen, and Siegmaringen, the prince 
of Lichtenstein, and prince of Leven, 
in proportion to their respective 
possessions in Suabia. 
Art. XXX. The proper debts 
of a prince or count who falls under 
the sovereignty of another state 
shall be defrayed by the said state, 
conjointly with the now reigning 
prince,in the proportion of the reve- 
nues which that state shall acquire, 
and of the part which by the present 
treaty is allotted to attach to the 
attributes of the present sovereigns. 
Art. XXXI. The present reign- 
ing princes or counts may determine 
the place of their residence where 
- they will. Where they reside in 
the dominions of a member or ally 
of the confederation, or in any of 
the possessions which they hold out 
of the territory of the confederation, 
they may draw their rents or capi- 
tals without paying any tax what- 
ever upon them. 
Art. XXXII, Those persons 
who hold places in the administra. 
tion of the countries which hereby 
come under the sovereignty of the 
confederates, and who shall not be 
retained by the new sovereign, shall 
receive a pension according to the 
situation they have held. 
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Art. XXXIII. The members of 
military or religious orders who 
shall lose their incomes, or whose 
common property shall be secularis- 
ed, shall receive during life a yearly 
stipend proportioned to their former 
income, their dignity, and their age, 
and which shall be secured upon 
the goods of the revenues, of which 
they were in the enjoyment. 
Art. XXXIV. The confederates 
renounce reciprocally, for them- 
selves and their posterity, all claims 
which they might have upon the 
possessions of other members of the 
confederation, the eventual right of 
succession alone excepted, and this 
only in the event of the family hay- 
ing died out, which now is in pos- 
session of the territories, and objects 
to which such a right might be ad- 
vanced, 
Art. XXXV. Between the em- 
peror of the French and the confee 
derated states, federatively and in- 
dividually, there shall bean alliance, 
by virtue of which every continental 
war in which one or either parties 
shall be engaged shall be common to 
all, 
Art. XXXVI. In the event of 
any foreign or neighbouring power 
making preparations for war, ~ the - 
contracting parties, in order to pre 
vent surprise, shall, upon the requi- 
sition of the minister of one of them 
at the assembly of the league in 
Frankfort, arm also. And_as the 
contingent of the allies is subdivided 
into four parts, the assembly shall 
decide how many of those shall be 
called into activity. The armament 
however, shall only take place upon 
the invitation of the emperor to each 
of the contracting parties. 
Art. XX XVII. His majesty the 
king of Bavaria binds himself to 
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