418 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1815. 
Countries, to be united to his do- 
minions. 
His Majesty the King of the 
Low Countries shall receive, more- 
over, out of that part of the French 
contribution which is destined to- 
wards strengthening the line of 
defence of the States bordering 
upon France, the sum of sixty 
millions of francs, which shall be 
laid out in fortifying the frontiers 
of the Low Countries, in confor- 
mity with the plans and regula- 
tions which the Powers shall settle 
in this respect. 
It is besides agreed, that in con- 
sideration of the advantages which 
his Majesty the King of the Low 
Countries will derive from these 
dispositions, both in the increase 
of, and in the means for defend- 
ing his territory; that that pro- 
portion of the pecuniary indem- 
nity payable by France to which 
his said Majesty might lay claim 
shall serve towards putting the 
indemnities of Austria and Prus- 
sia on the level of a just propor- 
tion. 
2. Acquisitions of Prussia.— 
The districts which, by the new 
treaty of France, will be detached 
from the French territory in 
the department of the Sarre and 
the Moselle, including the for- 
tress of Saare-Louis, shall be 
united to the dominions of the 
King of Prussia. 
3. Acquisitions of Austria.— 
The territories which France is 
to cede in the department of the 
Lower Rhine, including the town 
and fortress of Landau, Shall be 
united to those possessions on 
the left bank of the Rhine, which 
devolve to his Imperial and Royal 
Apostolic Majesty by the.final act 
of the Congress of Vienna. His 
Majesty may dispose of his pos- 
sessions on the left bank of the 
Rhine in the territorial arrange- 
ments with Bavaria, and other 
States of the Germanic Confedera- 
tion. 
4, Helvetic Confederation, — 
Versoix, with that part of the Pays 
de Gex which is to be ceded by 
France, shall be united to Switzer- 
land, and form part of the canton 
of Geneva. 
The neutrality of Switzerland 
shall be extended to that terri- 
tory, which is placed north of a 
line to be drawn from Ugina, 
(including that town) to the mouth 
of the Lake of Annecy, and from 
thence to the Lake of Bourget, 
as far as the Rhone, in the same 
manner as it has been extended 
to the provinces of Chablis and 
Faucigny, by the 92nd Article of 
the final Act of the Congress of 
Vienna. 
5. Sardinias—%In order that 
his Majesty the King of Sardi- 
nia may participate, in a just 
proportion, in the advantages re- 
sulting from the present arrange- 
ment with France, it is agreed, 
that the portion of Savoy which 
remained to France in virtue of 
the Treaty of Paris of the 30th of 
May, 1814, shall be re-united to 
the dominions of his said Ma- 
jesty, with the exception of the 
Commune of St. Julian, which 
shall be given up to the Canton of 
Geneva. 
The Cabinets of the Allied 
Courts will use their good offices 
for inducing his Sardinian Ma- 
jesty to cede to the Canton of Ge- 
neva the Communes of Chesne, 
Thonex, and some others neces- 
sary for disengaging the Swiss 
territory of Jassy from the rs oie 
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