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fortify Augsburg and Lindau; in 
the first of these places to form ‘and 
maintain artillery establishments, 
and in the second, to keep a quan- 
tity of muskets aud ammunition 
sufficient fora reserve, as well as a 
baking establishment at Augsburg, 
sufficient to supply the armies with- 
out stop in the event of war. 
Art. XXXVIIL. The contingent 
of each is determined as follows :— 
France 200,000 
Bavaria ~ 30,000 
Wirtemberg 12,000 
Baden 3,000 
Berg §,000 
Darmstadt 4,000 
* Nassau, Hohenzollern, 
and others 4,000 
Art. XXXIX. The contracting 
parties will admit of the accession 
of other German princes and states, 
, in all cases where their union with 
the confederation may be found 
consistent with the general interest. 
Art. XL. The ratification of 
the present treaty shall be exchang- 
ed between the contracting parties, 
on the 25th of July, at Munich. 
‘ 
Resignation of the Office of Emperor 
of Germany, by Francis, Emperor 
of Austria. — Dated at Vienna, 
August 6, 1806. 
We, Francis Second, &c. 
~ Since the peace of Presburg, all 
®ur attention and all our care have 
been employed to fulfil, with scru- 
pulous fidelity, all the engagements 
contracted by that treaty, to pre- 
serve to our subjects the happiness 
of peace, to consolidate every where 
the amicable relations happily re- 
established, waiting to discover whe- 
ther the changes caused by the 
peace, would permit us to perform 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1806. » 
our important duties, as chief of the 
German empire, conformably to 
the capitulation of election. 
The consequences, however, 
which ensued from some articles of 
the treaty of Presburg, immediately 
after its publication, and which 
still exist, and those events generally 
known, which have since taken 
place in the Germanic empire, have 
convinced us, that it will be impos- 
sible, under these circumstances, to 
continue the obligations contracted 
by the capitulation of election, and: . 
even, if, in reflecting on the politi- 
cal relations, it were possible to 
imagine a change of aflairs, the con- 
vention of the 12th of July, signed 
at Paris, and ratified by the con- 
tracting parties, relative to an en- 
tire separation of several considera- 
ble states of the empire, and their 
peculiar confederation, has entirely 
destroyed every such hope. 
Being thus convinced of the im- 
possibility of being any longer ena- 
bled to fulfil the duties of our impe- 
rial functions, we owe it to our 
principles and to our duty, to re- 
nounce a crown which was only 
valuable in our eyes, whilst we were 
able to enjoy the confidence of the 
electors, princes, and other states 
of the Germanic empire, and to 
perform the duties which were im- 
posed upon us. We declare, there. 
fore, by these presents, that we, 
considering as dissolved the ties 
which have hitherto attached us to 
the states of the Germanic empire, 
that we, considering as extinguished 
by the confederation of the states 
of the Rhine, the charge in chief of © 
the empire ; and that we, consider- 
ing ourselves thus acquitted of all 
our duties towards the Germanic 
empire, do resign the imperial 
crown, and theimperial ore 
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