ment of their armies, 
STATE PAPERS. 
rest of five per cent. per annum 
from the date of the Bons au 
Porteur falling due, upon all such 
Bons, the payment of which may 
have been delayed by the act of 
France. 
14. When the first six hundred 
millions of francs shall have been 
paid, the Allies, in order to ac- 
celerate the entire liberation of 
France, will accept, should it be 
agreeable to the French Govern- 
ment, the fund mentioned in the 
8th Article at the market price of 
that day, to such an amount as 
will be equal to the remainder 
due of the seven hundred mil- 
lions. 
France will only have to fur- 
nish the difference, should any 
exist. 
15. Should this plan not be 
convenient to France, the hun- 
dred millions of frances, which 
would remain due, may be dis- 
charged in the manner pointed 
out in the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th 
Articles; and after the complete 
payment of the seven hundred 
millions, the inscriptions’ stipu- 
lated for in the 8th Article shall 
be_returned to France. 
16. The French Government 
engages to execute, indepen- 
dently of the pecuniary indemnity 
stipulated by the present Conven- 
tion,jall the engagements stipu- 
lated for in the special Conven- 
tions concluded with the different 
powers and their Co-Allies, re- 
lative to the cloathing and equip- 
and en- 
gages for the exact deliverance 
and payment of the Bors and Man- 
dats arising from the said Con- 
-ventions, in as far as they shall 
mot have been already discharged 
at the time of the signature of the 
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principal Treaty, and of the pre- 
sent Convention. 
Done at Paris this 20th day of 
November, in the year of our 
Lord, 1815. 
(Signed) (L.S.) CastLerracH. 
L.S.) WeELiineron. 
(Signed) (L.S.) Ricwexrev. 
Extract of a Protocol for regulating 
the Dispositions relative to the 
Territories and Places ceded by 
France, by Articles 1,2, and 3, 
of Treaty. 
The Ministers of the Imperial 
and Royal Courts of Austria, of . 
Russia, of Great Britain, and of 
Prussia, having taken into con- 
sideration the measures become 
necessary by those arrangements 
with France which are to termi- 
nate the present war, have agreed 
to lay down in the present Pro- 
tocol, the dispositions relative to 
the territorial cessions to be made 
by France, and to the contribu- 
tions destined for strengthening 
the line of defence of the bor- 
dering States. 
Art. 1.—Kingdom of the Low 
Countrics—Considering that his 
Majesty the King of the Low 
Countries ought to participate in 
a just’ proportion in the advantages 
resulting from the present ‘ar- 
rangement with France, and con- 
sidering the state of his- frontiers 
on the side of that country, it is 
agreed, that the districts» which 
formed part of the Belgic Pro- 
vinces, of the Bishopric of Liege, 
and of the Duchy of Bouillon, as 
well as the towns of Phillippeville 
and Marienbourg, with their ter- 
ritories, which France is to cede 
to the Allies, shall be assigned 'to 
his Majesty the King of the Low 
QE Countries, 
