STATE PAPERS. 



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10,000 men ; and as the rate of 

 Hi. ^s. per man, paid in London, 

 is insufficient to defray the ex- 

 pense of this additional corps, his 

 Royal Highness the Prince Re- 

 gent, acting in the nan)e and on 

 the behalf of his Majesty the King 

 of the United Kingdom of Great 

 Britain and Ireland, agrees to pay 

 monthly to Hanover such simi as 

 shall he found to cover the actual 

 expense to Hanover of the above- 

 mentioned 1(5,400 men. 



Art. 2. The Commanding Offi- 

 cer of the said army shall give in 

 to the Comptroller of Army Ac- 

 counts with the British army, 

 monthly, an estimate of the ex- 

 jjense incurred, including pay and 

 other allowances to the officers 

 and troops, and contingent ex- 

 penses of all descriptions. The 

 amount of this estimate, which 

 shall exceed the sum of 111. 2s. 

 per man, paid in London for the 

 16,400 men, after having been 

 examined and checked, shall be 

 paid to the Hanoveiian military 

 chest with the ainiy. 



Alt. 3. Hanover shall be at 

 no expense for provisions or hos- 

 pitals for the officers and troops 

 of this corps of U),400 men, and 

 the British Government shall be 

 entitleil to receive the stoppage of 

 eighteen pfennigs per diem, which 

 is usually deducted from the pay 

 of every non-commissioned officer, 

 musician and private, while in 

 hospital. 



Art. 4. All arms, accoutre- 

 ments, cami)-kettles, and other 

 military effects belonging to the 

 said corps, which may be lost, or 

 become unserviceable during the 

 CKistence of this Treaty, shall be 

 replaced at the expense of Great 

 Britain. 



The British Government shall 

 likewise make good to individuals 

 the amount of their personal 

 losses, to which they may be en- 

 titled according to the regulations 

 of the Hanoverian army, such 

 losses being first investigated, 

 ascertained, and ceitified by a 

 Board of Hanoverian Officers, 

 whose proceedings, and the regu- 

 lations by which they are govern- 

 ed, are to be submitted to the 

 Comptroller of Army Accoimts. 



(No. 5.) — Hesse (Grand Duke.) 



Treaty of Subsidy between Great 

 Britain and Hesse, signed at Pa- 

 ris, \5thJiily 1815. 



Art. 1. His Britannic Majesty 

 engages to pay to his Royal High- 

 ness the Grand Duke of Hesse a 

 subsidy of 111. ^s. per man, for 

 the service of the year ending on 

 the 1st April 1816, to the number 

 of 8,000 men ; this subsidy shall 

 be paid in London at the end of 

 each month, by monthly instal- 

 ments, to the person duly autho- 

 rised to receive the same on the 

 part of his Royal Highness the 

 Gi'and Duke of Hesse, and the 

 first payment is to be made upon 

 the exchange of the ratifications 

 of this Treaty. 



In case peace should take place 

 or be signed between the Allied 

 Powers and France before the ex- 

 piration of the said year, the sub- 

 sidy shall be paid up to the end of 

 the month in which the Definitive 

 Treaty shall have been signed ; 

 and his Britannic Majesty pro- 

 mises, in addition, to pay to his 

 Royal Highness the (irand Duke 

 of Hesi^c the subsidy of one month, 

 to cover the expenses of the re- 

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