PUBLIC DOCUMENTS. 



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the commanders of the troops will agree upon a neu- 

 tral territory between the armies of both nations. 



Twenty thousand prisoners shall, without delay, 

 be forwarded to Lyons, on condition that they be 

 sent, immediately after their organization, to Algiers, 

 to be employed in this colony. 



ART. XI. Since the commercial treaties with the 

 various states of Germany have been abolished by 

 the war, the French and the German Governments 

 will take as the foundation of their commercial rela- 

 tions the principle of mutual treatment on the foot- 

 ing of the most favored nation. 



In this principle are contained the rights of im- 

 portation and exportation, the universal transit, the 

 formalities on the paying of duties, the admission and 

 treatment of the subjects of both nations, and of the 

 representatives of the same. 



The favors, nevertheless, which one of the powers 

 concluding the treaty has granted, or will grant ? by 

 commercial treaties to other lands, as the following, 

 England, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, 

 Austria, and Russia, are excepted under the above 

 principle. 



The treaties of navigation and the agreement con- 

 cerning the international railroad service, in relation 

 to the formalities on the paying of duties, as -well as 

 the agreement for the mutual protection of property, 

 in intellectual and artistic works, shall be again en- 

 forced. 



Meanwhile, the French Government reserves to 

 itself the right of collecting tonnage and flag-duties 

 from the German ships and their cargo, on the con- 

 clition that these duties do not exceed those collected 

 from the ships and cargoes of the above-mentioned 

 nations. 



ART. XII. All exiled Germans remain in full en- 

 joyment of all property which they have acquired in 

 France. 



Those Germans who have not received from the 

 French laws the demanded authorization to establish 

 themselves in France, shall be reinstated in all their 

 rights, and can, in consequence of the same, take up 

 their abode again on French territory. 



The space of time stipulated by the French laws 

 for the attainment of naturalization will not be con- 

 sidered as interrupted by the state of war for those 

 persons who make use of the aforesaid permission to 

 return to France, within six months after the ex- 

 change of the ratification of this treaty, and the time 

 past between their exile and their return to French 

 soil shall be regarded as if they had never ceased to 

 reside in France. 



The above stipulations are, vice versa, applicable to 

 French subjects who dwell, or wish to dwell, hi Ger- 

 many. 



ART. XIII. The Gorman vessels, which were con- 

 demned before the 2d of March, 1871, by prize- 

 courts, shall be considered as finally condemned. 



Those which were not condemned on the day 

 mentioned shall be restored, with the cargo, so far as 

 it still exists. 



If the restitution of the vessels and cargoes is no 

 longer possible, compensation will be made to the 

 owners for their value, estimated at the selling-price. 



ART. XIV. Both of the treaty powers will carry on 

 in their territory the works commenced for the navi- 

 gation of the Moselle. The common debts of the 

 separated parts of the two Departments Meurthe and 

 Moselle shall be liquidated. 



ART. XV. The high contracting powers mutually 

 engage to extend to tho subjects on both sides the 

 measures which they woulu consider necessary in 

 favor of those belonging to their state, who, in con- 

 sequence of the occurrences of war, were removed 

 from the possibility of appearing at the right time 

 for the prosecution and maintenance of their rights. 



ART. XVI. Both the German and French Govern- 

 ments mutually engage to respect the graves of sol- 

 diers buried in their districts, and to allow them to 

 be kept in order. 



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ART. XVII. The regulation of the incidental points 

 on which an understanding must be obtained, in con- 

 sequence of this treaty and the preliminary treaty, 

 will be the subject ot further negotiations, to take 

 place in Frankfort. 



ART. XVIII. The ratifications of this treaty by 

 His Majesty the German Emperor, on one part, and, 

 on the other part, by the National Assembly and the 

 Chief of the Executive Power of the French Repub- 

 lic, will be exchanged in Frankfort within ten days, 

 or earlier if possible. 



For the attestation of this treaty, the plenipoten- 

 tiaries on both sides have annexed their signatures 

 and seals. 

 Done at FRANKFORT, May 10, 1871. 



VON BISMARCK, 

 AENIM, 

 JULES FAVRE, 

 POUYER-QUERTIER, 

 E. DE GOULARD. 



Additional Articles. 



ARTICLE I. 1. From this time forward until the 

 period appointed for the exchange of the ratifications 

 of this treaty, the French Government will make use 

 of its right of redemption of the concession given to 

 the Eastern Railway Company. The German Gov- 

 ernment will enter upon all rights, which the French 

 Government shall have acquired through the re- 

 demption of the concession, so far as it depends upon 

 the railroads situated in the ceded districts, either 

 finished or in process of building. 



2. In this concession are contained : 



1. All the real estate belonging to the company 

 mentioned, whatever its destiny may be ; for instance, 

 station-buildings, sheds, workshops and storehouses, 

 houses of the railway-guards, etc. 



2. All immovable property belonging to them, as 

 barriers, fences, switches, signals,turn-tables, pumps, 

 hydraulic cranes, stable-engines, etc. 



3. All fuel and stores ot every kind, furniture in 

 the railway-stations, implements in the workshops 

 and railway-stations, etc. 



4. The sums which are due the Eastern Railway 

 Company, such as subventions granted from the cor- 

 porations, or private personages settled in the ceded 

 districts. 



3. The rolling-stock is excluded from this assign- 

 ment. The German Government will restore to the 

 French Government that part of the rolling-stock, 

 together with the appurtenances, that may happen to 

 be found in their possession. 



4. The French Government engages to free the 

 ceded railways, and whatever may belong to them, 

 so far as the German Empire is concerned, of all 

 legitimate claims, which could afterward be raised 

 by a third party, principally the claims of the ob- 

 ligees. It also engages, if necessary, to answer for 

 the German Government in referance to reclamations, 

 which might be raised against the German Govern- 

 ment, by creditors of the roads in question. 



5. .The French Government takes upon itself the 

 reclamations which the Eastern Railway Company 

 could raise against the German Government or its 

 proxies, in respect to the profits of the railroads 

 mentioned, and the use of the objects intimated in 

 2, as well as the rolling-stock. 



The German Government will furnish the French 

 Government, on its demand, all documents and 

 intelligence, which could serve to determine the 

 facts upon which the above-mentioned reclamations 

 would rest. 



6. The German Government will pay the French 

 Government for the cession of the rights of posses- 

 sion, intimated in 1 and 2, and as compensation for 

 the obligation taken upon itself by the French Gov- 

 ernment in 4, the sum of three hundred and twenty- 

 five millions (325,000,000) francs. 



This sum will be deducted from the war indemni- 

 fication stated in Art. VII. 



