ITALY. 



411 



will immediately withdraw beyond the fron- 



ihed. 



'I'll i- government of his majesty the King of Italy 



u-a a portion of tin- d<-l>t appertaining to the 



Ties ceded by the present tnaty, and which in 



at 85,000,000 of florins, Austrian convention 



'' in eleven successive instalment! 



\\itliin tnemy months, in the manner and form 



!ie.l in tin- next additional article. 



te Lombardo- Venetian, with its assets of 



i ml its liabilities of 60,000,000 florins. 



pastes entirely into the hands of the government of 



las majesty the King of Italy. The government of 



the Kin^ of Italy succeeds to the rights and engagc- 



iin^ from the contracts regularly entered 



, the Austrian administration in the interest 



uf the ceded territory. 



Tli'- Austrian (Jovernment is bound to reimburse 



all the sums paid into the Austrian treasury as de- 



- of caution money by Lombardo-Venetian sub- 



i ommuncs, public establishments, and religious 



ions. 



'i he Italian government will be bound in like man- 

 ner with respect to sums paid by Austrian subjects 

 and corporations into the Monte Lombardo-Venetian. 

 The government of his majesty the King of Italy 

 :iizes and confirms the railway concessions 

 il by the Austrian government in the ceded 

 ry in all their stipulations and their periods of 

 duration. From the day upon which the ratifications 

 of the present treaty are exchanged, the Italian gov- 

 ernment assumes all the rights and charges of the 

 Austrian government in respect of the above-men- 

 tioned concessions on the railway lines in the ceded 

 ry. Until new and ulterior arrangements are 

 made, tne total receipts of the two railway systems 

 north and south of the Alps are admitted for the lines 

 1 in the ceded territory, as the estimate of 

 gross revenue upon which is based the estimate for 

 the kilometrh guaranty of thirty miles. 

 _ A special convention between the contracting par- 

 ah participation of the railway company in- 

 terested, without reservation as to time, and leaving 

 full liberty to all parties, will regulate the mode of 

 MMnting the two railway systems north and south 

 of the Alps. 



Lombardo-Venetian subjects domiciled upon the 

 ceded territory will enjoy, during one year, after 

 previous declaration before the competent authority, 

 lull and entire liberty to export their movable prop- 

 erty free of duty, and to withdraw with their families 

 to the states of his Imperial Royal Apostolic Ma- 

 in which case they will preserve their Austrian 

 citizenship. They will be at liberty to retain their 

 lauded property upoii Lombardo-Venetian terri- 

 tory. 



The same right will belong to natives of Vcnctia 

 living in the other provinces of the Austrian empire. 

 Those who avail themselves of these stipulations 

 shall in no way be molested in their persona or their 

 property situated in the respective states on account 

 of their option. 



The above period of one year is extended to two 

 years in the case of subjects, natives of the ceded 

 territory, who at the time of the ratification of the 

 present treaty may live out of the territory of the 

 Austrian monarchy. Natives of the ceded territory 

 who are in the Austrian army will immediately be 

 discharged from service and sent to their homes. 



It is understood that those among them who de- 

 clare their wish to remain in the imperial sen-ice will 

 not on that account be molested either in their per- 

 sons or property. The same guaranties are assured 

 to the civil functionaries, natives of the ceded tcrri- 

 trry, who shall have manifested their intention of 

 conuntdna in the offices which they hold in the Aus- 

 trian service. 



The regular civil and military pensions chargeable 

 upon the Lombardo-Venetian treasuries remain pay- 

 able to those entitled to them, and eventually to their 



widows and children, and will be paid in future by 



tin- Italian guvi-num-nt. 4 



'I In' archives containing titles to property, the ad- 

 ministrative and judicial documents concerning tin- 

 ceded territory, and the objects of art appertaining 

 to the same existing among the archives or the Aus- 

 trian empire, will be handed over to the commis- 

 sioners of his majesty the King of Italy as soon as 

 possible. 



All the treaties and conventions previously con- 

 cluded between his majesty the King of Italy and 

 his majesty the Emperor of Austria will be confirmed 

 in all that is not annulled by the present treaty. 

 Nevertheless, the two contracting parties engage 

 themselves to submit those treaties and conventions 

 in the course of the year to a general revision, in 

 order to introduce in the same by common accord 

 those modifications which may be considered bene- 

 ficial in the interest of the two countries. Naviga- 

 tion upon the Lake of Oarda is free, subject to the 

 particular regulations of the ports and the littoral 

 police. 



A convention to regulate the necessary measures 

 for preventing and repressing contraband trade will 

 be concluded between Austria and Italy within a year 

 from the date upon which the ratifications of the 

 present treaty are exchanged. Meanwhile, the con- 

 vention concluded on the !i2d of November, 1851, be- 

 tween Sardinia and Austria, will remain in force. 



The Italian government raises the sequestration 

 upon all the private property of the Italian ex-princes, 

 without prejudice, however, to the rights of the state, 

 and the right of the third portion over the property 

 in question. In order to contribute in the best man- 

 ner possible to the restoration of peace, his majesty 

 the King of Italy and his majesty the Emperor of 

 Austria declare and promise, both'in their respective 

 territories and in the restituted or ceded countries, 

 that no person compromised during the late events 

 in the Peninsula, to whatever class or condition be- 

 longing, shall be prosecuted, molested, or disturbed, 

 either personally or in their property, on account of 

 their conduct or their political opinions. 



In accordance with the above treaty, a popu- 

 lar vote took place in Venetia in October on 

 the question of annexation to Italy. The re- 

 sult showed a remarkable unanimity, 641,758 

 votes being cast in favor of, and only sixty-nine 

 against annexation. On November 4th the 

 king, surrounded by the princes, the ministers, 

 the dignitaries of the state, and the president 

 of the Chamber of Deputies, received the Vene- 

 tian deputation, which communicated to his 

 majesty the result of the plebiicitum. After 

 the ceremony the national guard, the troops, 

 and the various corporate bodies defiled before 

 his majesty amid loud cheers from the assembled 

 multitude. General Menabrea delivered a 

 speech to the king on placing in his mni 

 hands the iron crown of Lombardy, Upon re- 

 ceiving the rebult of the plebiscitum from the 

 Venetian deputation, King Victor Emmanuel 

 said: "This day is the proudest of my life. 

 Eighteen years ago my father proclaimed from 

 thin city the war of independence, and to-day 

 you bring to me the manifestations of the popu- 

 lar will in the Venetian provinces, which, united 

 with Italy, declare my father's wish to bo 

 accomplished. Yon confirm by this solemn act 

 what Venetia did up to 1848, and has main- 

 tained up to the present day with admirable 

 constancy and abnegation. I therefore pay a 

 grateful tribute to those generous patriots* who 



