STATE PAPERS. 
aeration has its'sitting atFrankfort 
on the Main; its opening is fixed 
for the Ist of September 1815. 
IX.—The first business of the 
Diet, after its opening, will be 
the formation of the organic re- 
gulations of the confederation, in 
regard to its external, military, 
and internal relations. 
X.—Every Member of the Con- 
federation engages to assist in 
protecting not only all Germany, 
but every separate State of the 
league against any attack, and 
reciprocally to guarantee to each 
other the whole of their posses- 
sions included within the Con- 
federation. 
After war has been once de- 
clared by the Confederation, no 
member can enter into separate 
negotiations with the enemy, nor 
conclude a separate armistice or 
peace. 
Although the members possess 
the right of alliance of every kind, 
yet they bind themselves to enter 
into no treaties hostile to the secu- 
rity of the Confederation, or to 
that of any confederate State. 
The Members of the League 
also bind themselves not to make 
war on each other under any pre- 
text, nor to decide their differ- 
ences by force, but to bring them 
under the consideration and deci- 
sion of the Diet. 
Besides the preceding articles, 
there are a variety of others re- 
lating to the internal regulations 
of Germany, of which the fol- 
lowing are the most interest- 
ing:— 
XIII.—In all the States of the 
Confederation a constitutional as- 
sembly of the States-General shall 
be established. 
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XVI—Diversity of Christian re- 
ligious faith in the States of the 
German Confederation, can occa- 
sion no difference in respect to 
the enjoyment of civil and poli- 
tical rights. 
The Diet will take into consider- 
ation in what way the civil ame- 
lioration of the professors of the 
Jewish religion may best be effect- 
ed, and in particular, how the en- 
joyment of all civil rights in return 
for the performance ofall civil du- 
ties may be most effectually secu- 
red to them in the States of the 
Confederation; in the mean time 
the professors of this faith shall 
coatinue to enjoy the rights al- 
ready extended to them. 
XVIII.—The confederate Prin- 
ces and free cities agree to secure 
to thesubjects of their Confeder- 
ate States the following rights:— 
a. The possession of landed 
property out of the State in which 
they reside, without being sub- 
jected to greater taxes or charges 
than those of the native subjects 
of such State. 
b. The right of free emigra- 
tion from one German Confe- 
derate State to another, which 
shall consent to receive them for 
subjects; and also the right -of 
entering into the civil or mili- 
tary service of any such Con- 
federate State; both rights, how- 
ever, to be enjoyed only in sofar as 
no previous obligation to military 
service in their native country 
shall staud in the way. 
c. The Diet.on its first meet- 
ing shall occupy itself with the 
formation of some uniform re- 
gulations relative to the freedom 
of the press, and the securing of 
the rights of authors and pubs 
lishers against oppression, 
