368 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1816. 



Confederation, and the Prince, *f'of the Netherlands renounces, in 



King of the Netherlands, sliall 

 form a part of the system of tliis 

 Confedeiation, as Grand Duke of 

 Luxemburg, with all the Prero- 

 gatives and privileges which the 

 other German Princes might 

 enjoy. 



The Town of Luxemburg, in 

 a military point of view, shall be 

 considered as a fortress belong- 

 ing to the Confederation. The 

 Grand Duke shall, however, re- 

 tain the ()ower of appointing the 

 Governor and Military Command- 

 ant of this fortress, subject to 

 the approbation of the executive 

 power of the Confederation, and 

 under such other conditions as it 

 may be judged necessary to e.s- 

 tablish, in conformity to the fu- 

 ture constitution of the said Con- 

 federation. 



Art. 4. The Grand Duchy of 

 Luxemburg shall consist of all 

 the tei ritory situated between the 

 kingdom of the Netherlands, such 

 as it has been designated by Article 

 2 ; France, the Moselle, as far as 

 the Mouth of the iSare ; the couise 

 of the Sare, as far as the junc- 

 tion of the Our ; and the couise 

 of this la^.t ii\er, as far as the 

 limits of the former French can- 

 ton of St. Vith, which is not to 

 belong to the Grand Duchy of 

 Luxemburg. 



Disputes having arisen with 

 regard to the property of the 

 Duchy of Bouillon, his Majesty 

 the King of the Netherlands, 

 Grand Duke of L\ixenibnrg, en- 

 gages to restore the part of the 

 i)uchy, which is comprised in the 

 line of frontier abovementioned, 

 to that party whose claims shall 

 be legally continued. 



Art. 5. His Majesty the King- 



perpetuity for himself, his heirs 

 and successors, in favour of his 

 Majesty the King of Prussia, the 

 sovereign possessions which the 

 House of Nassau -Orange held in 

 Germany, namely, the princi- 

 palities of Dillenbiirg, Dietz, 

 Siegen, and Hadamar, together 

 with the lordships of Bielstein, 

 such as those possessions liave 

 been definitively arranged between 

 the two branches of the House 

 of Nassau, by the Treaty con- 

 cluded at the Hague the 14th 

 July, 1814. His Majesty equally 

 renounces all claim to the prin- 

 cipality of Fulda, and to the 

 other districts and territories 

 which had been secured to him 

 by the I'ith Article of the prin- 

 cipal Recess, of the extraordinary 

 deputation of the empire on the 

 25 th February, 1803. 



Art. 6. The right and order of 

 succession established between 

 the two branches of the House of 

 Nassau, by the Act of 1/83, 

 called Nassauischer Erb-Verein, 

 is confirmed and transferred from 

 the f.jui' ])rincipalities of Orange- 

 Nassau to the Grand Duchy of 

 Luxemburg. 



Art. /. His Majesty the King 

 of the Netherlands, uniting imder 

 his sovereignty the countries de- 

 signated in the second and fourth 

 Articles, enters into all the rights, 

 and takes upon himself all the 

 charges, and all tlie stipulated 

 engagements, relative to the pro- 

 vinces and districts detached from 

 France by the Treaty of Peace 

 concluded at Paris the 30tii of 

 May, 1814. 



Art. 8. His Majesty the King 

 of the Netherlands having recog- 

 nised and sanctioned, under the 



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