STATE PAPERS. 
their full powers, found to be in 
good and due form, have signed 
the followizg articles :— 
Article 1. The frontiers of 
France shall be the same as they 
were in the year 1790, save and 
except the modifications on one 
side and onthe other, which are de- 
tailed in the present Article. First, 
on the northern frontiers, the line 
of demarcation shall remain as it 
was fixed by the Treaty of Paris,as 
far as opposite to Quiverian, from 
thence it shall follow the ancient 
limits ofthe Belgian Provinces, of 
the late Bishcpric of Liege, and 
of the Duchy of Bouillon, as they 
existed in the year 1790, leaving 
the territories included within that 
‘line, of Phillipeville and Marien- 
bourg, with the fortresses so call- 
ed, together with the whole of the 
Duchy of Bouillon, without the 
frontiers of France. From Villers 
near‘Orval, upon the confines of 
the Department Des Ardennes, 
and of the Grand Duchy of Lux- 
‘embourg as far as Perle, upon the 
great road leading from Thion- 
ville to Treves, the line shall re- 
main as it was laid down by the 
treaty of Paris. From Perle it 
shall pass by Launsdorff,Walwich, 
Schardorff, Niederveiling, Pelwei- 
ler (all these places with their 
Banlieues or dependencies remain 
ing to France) to Houvre; and 
shallfollow from thence the old 
limits of the district of Sarre- 
bruck, leaving Saarelouis, and the 
course of the Sarre, together with 
the places situated to the right 
of the line above described, and 
their Banliewes or dependencies, 
without the limits of France. 
From the limits of the district of 
Sarrebruck the line of demarca- 
tion shall be the same which at 
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present separates from Germany 
the departments of the Moselle 
and of the Lower Rhine, as far 
as to the Lauter, which river 
shall from thence serve as the 
frontier until it shall fall into the 
Rhine. All the territory on the left 
bank of the Lauter, including the 
fortress of Landau, shall form 
part of Germany 
The town of Weissenburg, how- 
ever, through which that river 
runs, shall remain entirely to 
France, with a rayon on the left 
bank, not exceeding a thousand 
toises, and which shall be more 
particularly determined by the 
Commissioners who shall be 
charged with the approaching 
designation of the boundaries. Se- 
condly, leaving the mouth of the 
Lauter, and continuing along the 
departments of the Lower Rhine, 
the Upper Rhine, the Doubs, and 
the Jura, to the Canton de Vaud, 
the frontiers shall remain as fixed 
by the Treaty of Paris. The Thal- 
weg of the Rhine shall form the 
boundary between France and the 
States of Germany, but the pro- 
perty of the islands shall remain 
in perpetuity, asit shall be fixed by 
a new survey of the course of that 
river, and continue unchanged, 
whatever variation that course 
may undergo in the lapse of time. 
Commissioners shall be named on 
both sides, by the High Contract- 
ing Parties, within the space of 
thrée months, to proceed upon the 
said survey. One half of the bridge 
between Strasbourg and Kehl 
shall belong. to France, and the 
other halfto the Grand Duchy of 
Baden. Thirdly, in order to esta- 
blish a direet communication be- 
twéen thé Canton of Geneva and 
Switzerland, that part of the Pays 
