364 ANNUAL KEGISTEK, 1816. 



ception of the changes effected by 

 the Treaty of Paris of the 30th 

 May 1814. 



On the side of the Helvetic 

 Confederation, such as they exist- 

 ed on the 1st of January 1792, 

 ■\vitli the exception of the cliange 

 piodnced by the cession, in favour 

 of the canton of Geneva, as speci- 

 fied in the 7th Article herein af- 

 ter inserted. 



On the side of the States of his 

 IMajesty the pjinperor of Austria, 

 such as they existed on the 1st of 

 January 179*2; and tlie Conven- 

 tion concluded between their Ma- 

 jesties the Empress Maria Theresa 

 and the King of Sardinia, on the 

 4lh of October 1751, shall be re- 

 ciprocally confirmed in all its sti- 

 pulations. 



On the side of tiie States of 

 Parma and Placentia,the fiontier, 

 as far as it concerns the ancient 

 States of tlie King of Sardinia, 

 shall continue to be the same as 

 it was on the 1st of January 

 1792. 



The borders of the former 

 States of Genoa, and of the coun- 

 tries called Imperial Fiels, united 

 to the Stales of his Majesty the 

 King of Sardinia, according to 

 the foiliiwing Articles, shall be 

 the same as those which, on the 

 1st of January 1792, separated 

 those coimtries from the States of 

 Parma and Placentia, and from 

 those of Tuscany and Ma>sa. 



'J'Ue isLmd of Capiaja having 

 belonged to the ancient Republic 

 of Genoa, is inc uded in the ces- 

 sion of the States of Genoa to his 

 Majesty the King of Sardinia. 



Art. 2. The iiates winch con- 

 stituted the former republic of 

 Genoa, are united in perpetuity to 



those of his Majesty the King of 

 Sardinia ; to be, like the latter, 

 possessed by him in full sovereign- 

 ty and hereditary property, and 

 to descend, in the male line, in 

 the Older of ]irimogeniture, to the 

 two branches of his house, viz. 

 the Royal Branch, and the Branch 

 of Savoy Carignan. 



Art. 3. The King of Sardinia 

 shall add to his present titles that 

 of Duke of Genoa. 



Art. 4. The Genoese shall en- 

 joy all the rights and privileges 

 specified in the Act, intituled "A. 

 A.* Conditions which are to serve 

 as the bases of the union of the 

 Genoese States to those of his 

 Sardinian Majesty;" and the said 

 Act shall be considered as an in- 

 tegral ])art of the jiresent Treaty, 

 and shall ha\e the same force and 

 validity as if it were textually in- 

 serted in the present article. 



Art. .5. The countries called 

 Imperial Fiefs, formeily ruiited 

 to the ancient Ligvnian Republic, 

 are definitively united to the States 

 of his Majesty the King of Sar- 

 dinia, in the same manner as the 

 rest of the (jencese States ; and 

 the inhabitants of these countries 

 shall enjoy the same rights and 

 privileges as those of the States of 

 Genoa, specified in the preceding 

 article. 



Art. 6 The right that the 

 Powers who signed the Treaty of 

 Paris of tlie 30th of May, 1814, 

 reserved to themselves, by the 3d 

 article of that Treaty, of fortify- 

 ing such points of tiieir States as 

 they might judge proper for their 

 safety, is equally reserved, with- 



125. 



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