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countries which cease to belong to 

 France, or contracted for their in- 

 ternal administration, shall remain 

 a charge on these sanae countries. 

 An account shall in consequence 

 be kept for the French government, 

 commencing with the 22nd Decem- 

 ber, 1813, of such of those debts 

 as have been converted into in- 

 scriptions in the great book of the 

 public debt of France. The titles 

 of all such as have not been pre- 

 pared for the inscription, nor have 

 been yet inscribed, shall be given 

 up to the governments of the re- 

 spective countries. Statements of 

 all these debts shall be drawn up 

 by a mixed commission. 



Art. XXII. The French Govern- 

 ment, on its side, shall remain 

 charged with the repayment of all 

 the sums paid by the subjects of 

 the above-mentioned countries into 

 the French chests, whether under 

 the head of cautionments, deposits, 

 or consignments. In like manner 

 French subjects, servants of the 

 said countries, who have paid sums 

 under the head of cautionments, 

 deposits, or consignments, into 

 their respective treasuries, shall be 

 faithfully reimbursed. 



Art. XXIII. The titulars of places 

 subjected to cautionments, who 

 have not the handling of the mo- 

 ney, shall be repaid with interest, 

 until the full payment at Paris, by 

 fifths and annually, commencing 

 from the date of the present 

 treaty. 



With regard to those who are 

 accountable, the payment shall 

 take place, at the latest, six months 

 after the presentation of their ac- 

 counts, the case of malversation 

 alone excepted. A copy of the 

 last account shall be transmitted to 

 the Government of their country 



to serve it for information and as 

 a starting point. 



Art. XXIV. The judicial depo- 

 sits and consignments made into 

 the chest of the sinking fund in ex- 

 ecution of the law of the 28th 

 Nivose, year 13th (18th of January, 

 1815), and which belong to the in- 

 habitants of countries which France 

 ceases to possess, shall be restored, 

 within a year, dating from the ex- 

 change of the ratifications of the 

 present treaty, into the hands of 

 the authorities of the said countries, 

 with the exception of such de- 

 posits and consignments as French 

 subjects are interested in ; in which 

 case they shall remain in the chest 

 of the sinking fund, not to be re- 

 stored but on proofs resulting from 

 the decisions of the competent au- 

 thorities. 



Art. XXV. The funds deposited 

 by the communes and public estab- 

 lishments in the chest of service 

 and in the chest of the sinking 

 fund, or in any other government 

 chest, shall be repaid to them by 

 fifths from year to year, reckoning 

 from the date of the present treaty, 

 with the deduction of advances 

 which shall have been made to 

 them, and saving the regular 

 claims made upon these funds by 

 creditors of the said communes and 

 public establishments. 



Art. XXVI. Dating from the 

 1st of January, 1814. the French 

 Government ceases to be charged 

 with the payment of any pension, 

 civil, military, or ecclesiastical, 

 pension or retirement, or half-pay, 

 to any individual, who is no longer 

 a French subject. 



Art. XXVII. The national do- 

 mains acquired for a valuable con- 

 sideration by French subjects in the 

 ci-devant departments of Belgium, 



