STATE PAPERS OMITTED. 
or by the political arrangements 
that may result from it. 
With regard to the latter part 
of the note of the Plenipoten- 
tiaries of France, the undersigned 
reserve themselves for a serious 
explanation in the next conference 
which they will have the honour 
of proposing to the Plenipoten- 
tiaries of France. 
(Signed ) 
RAsuMOFFSKY, 
Caro p’IsTRIA, 
WEISSENBERG, 
Humbo pr, 
METTERNICH, 
HARDENBERG, 
CASTLEREAGH. 
Protocol respecting the Partition 
of the Seven Hundred Millions 
to be paid by France to the Allied 
Powers, and which Protocol is 
to be instead of a Special Con- 
vention on that Subject. 
The undersigned Plenipoten- 
tiaries, agreeing to fix the prin- 
ciples of the partition of the sums 
to be paid by France, in virtue of 
the Treaty of Paris, of the 20th 
of November, 1815, among their 
respective Courts and the other 
allied States ; and taking into con- 
sideration, that it appears to be 
superfluous to conclude a special 
convention on the subject of this 
agreement, have resolved to set 
forth in the present Protocol every 
thing that relates to this object, 
and to regard this Protocol as 
having the same force and effect 
as a special and formal convention, 
in virtue of their full powers and 
instructions from their respective 
Courts. 
Art, F. The Allied Powers, con- 
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vinced of the necessity of securing 
the tranquillity of the countries 
bordering on France by the for- 
tification of some of the most 
threatened points, destine for 
this purpose a part of the sums 
which France has to pay, whilst 
they appropriate the remainder 
of those sums for general par- 
tition, as indemnities. The sums 
destined for the erection of these 
fortresses, shall form the fourth 
part of the total which France 
has to pay; but as the cession of 
the fortress of Saar Louis, a 
measure equally founded on mo- 
tives of general security, renders 
the erection of new fortifications 
on the side where that fortress is 
situated, superfluous ; and as the 
sums for the above purpose were 
estimated by the Commission ap~ 
pointed by the Council of Mi- 
nisters, at fifty millions, therefore 
this fortress, in the amount of 
the sums destined for fortifications, 
shall be reckoned at fifty millions, 
in such way that the above-men- 
tioned fourth shall not be deducted 
from the actual 700 millions pro- 
mised by France, bat from 750 
millions, thus including the ces- 
sion of Saar-Louis. ] 
In conformity to this regulation, 
the sum destined for the erection 
of fortresses is fixed at 1874 mil- 
lions, viz. at 1373 millions of ac- 
tual money, and 50 millions in- 
cluded in the valued cession of the 
fortress of Saar-Louis. 
Art. II. In the partition of these 
1372 millions, among the States 
bordering on France, the under- 
signed Ministers take into con- 
sideration partly, the more or less 
urgent wants of these States to 
establish new fortresses, the more 
or less considerable expense in 
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