[Boundaries.]

37 and 38. Mixed Proprietors.

39. Property belonging to Communes, &c.

40. Territories exchanged or ceded to change hands within 6 Weeks from the exchange of Ratifications.

41. Archives, Maps, and Documents to be given up within 6 Weeks after the exchange of Ratifications.

42. Militiamen belonging to ceded Territories to be given up.

43. Demarcation of Frontier to begin one month after Ratification of Treaty. 44. Ratifications.

(Translation.*)

Reference to Treaties of 19th April, 1839, and 5th November, 1842.

His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, Grand Duke of Luxemburg, and His Majesty the King of the Belgians, taking into consideration the Treaty of 19th April, 1839 (No. 184), and wishing to regulate and settle everything relating to the delimitation between the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Kingdom of Belgium, have appointed to that effect, in conformity to Article VI of the said Treaty, Commissioners, namely:

His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, Grand Duke of Luxemburg, the Sieurs Paul Eustace René van Hooff, his Aidede-Camp on Extraordinary Service, &c., Guillaume Dominique Alois Kerens de Wolfrath, District Commissioner at Maestricht, &c.; Michel Tock, his Commissioner for the regulation of the Navigation and of the Right of Navigation on the Danube, &c.; François Joseph Charles Marie Wirz, Superior Councillor of Public Works in the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg, &c.; and Etienne de Kruyff, Engineer-in-Chief of the Waterstaat, &c.;

His Majesty the King of the Belgians, the Sieurs André Edouard Jolly, Major-General, Commander of the Province of Antwerp, &c.; Nicolas Berger, President of the Tribunal of First Instance at Arlon, &c.; Jean Baptiste Vifquain, Inspector of Roads and Bridges, &c.; Charles Emmanuel François Joseph Grandgagnage, Director of Direct Taxes, Customs and Excise, and Surveyor in the Province of Liége, &c.; and Viscount Charles Ghislain Guillaume Vilain XIIII, Member of the Chamber of Representatives, &c. ;

Who, after having exchanged their Full Powers, found to be in good and due form, and in conformity with the Supplementary Treaty of 5th November, 1842, have agreed upon the following Articles :

For French version, see "State Papers," vol. xxxv, p. 1202.

Explanation of Article XX of Treaty of 3rd May, 1815, between Austria and Prussia, relative to Privileges of Proprietors of Estates divided by the Frontier.

(ANNEX).-REGULATION relative to the planting of Boundary

Posts.

[Tyrol and Vorarlberg.]

No. 197.-TREATY between Austria and Bavaria respecting the Boundary of Tyrol and Vorarlberg. Signed at Munich, 30th January, 1844.

1. The Boundary to be divided into 3 sections, viz., 1, from Scheibelberg to the River Inn; 2, from the left Bank of the Inn to the River Loch; 3, from the Lech to the Lake of Constance.

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Description of Boundary Line (Section I), from Scheibelberg to the
River Inn.

Description of Boundary Line (Section 2), from the left Bank of the
Inn to the River Lech.

Description of Boundary Line (Section 3), from the Lech to the Lake 12. Constance.

13. Austria renounces all rights over the Hamlets of Spielmannsau with Tranchberg and Biesling or Biesings; Bavaria relinquishes her rights over Pfronten.

14. Boundary in the River Laiblach.

15 and 16. Austria to retain the Sovereignty of part of the District of Jungholz.

17. All exchanges of Land herein agreed to take place on the Ratification of the Treaty.

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25

Previous Rights over ceded Lands reciprocally relinquished; private
Rights reserved; levy of taxes, &c.

26 and 27. Certain Roads to remain common to both Parties.

28 and 29. Fishing in the Laiblach to belong to Bavaria; maintenance of Bridges over that River.

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to Marking the new Line; periodical inspection of Boundary, &c.

40

41. Settlement of disputes.

42. Ratifications.

(Translation.)

His Majesty the Emperor of Austria and His Majesty the King of Bavaria, animated by the same desire of putting an end to the controversies respecting the Boundary between the Principality of Tyrol with Vorarlberg and the Kingdom of Bavaria, and of preventing such Boundary disputes in future, have resolved to have the whole Boundary line, from Scheibelberg, where the

[Tyrol and Vorarlberg.]

Boundaries of Salzburg, Tyrol, and Bavaria meet, to the Lake of Constance (Bodensee), examined by Commissioners, and to have it defined and permanently marked.

His Majesty the Emperor of Austria has therefore appointed his Councillor Daniel Mensi, Ritter von Klarbach, and

His Majesty the King of Bavaria, his Councillor Francis de Paula Auer, as their Commissioners, and these have agreed to the following Treaty:

ARTS. I to XLII. (See Table.)

Munich, 30th January, 1844.

(L.S.) RITTER V. KLARBACH. (L.S.) AUER.

(L.S.) DANIEL MENSI.

[Brunshausen or Stade Toll.]

No. 193. CONVENTION between Austria, Prussia,. Saxony, Hanover, Denmark, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Anhalt-Cothen, Anhalt-Dessau, Anhalt-Bernburg, Lubeck, and Hamburg, relative to the Regulation of the Brunshausen (or Stade) Toll. Signed at Dresden, 13th April,

Preamble. Reference to Vienna Congress Treaty of 9th June, 1815. 1. Brunshausen Toll Regulations.

2. Revision of Tariff by Brunshausen Toll Commission.

3. Hanover to issue further Directions for carrying Regulations into effect.

4. Rights of Elbe-bordering States relative to the Brunshausen Toll.

5. Privilege of Most Favoured Nation to Shipping of Elbe-bordering States. Exceptions granted to Inland Goods in Inland Vessels and Hamburgh Goods in Hamburgh Vessels.

6. Art. XV of Elbe Navigation Act of 23rd June, 1821, cancelled.

7. Ratifications.

SEPARATE ARTICLES.

A. Hanover to prepare Alphabetical List of Goods, and of fixed Weights agreed upon.

B. Duty on Articles not enumerated in the Tariff not to exceed 4 per cent. C. Revision of Brunshausen Toll Tariff every 25 years. Exception of certain Articles. Reduction of Brunshausen Toll in case of diminution of Price.

D. Weight of certain Articles to be ascertained by Cubic Content.

(Translation as laid before Parliament.)

Reference to Vienna Congress Treaty of 9th June, 1815.

In conformity with Articles CVIII to CXVI of the Act of the Congress of Vienna of the 9th June, 1815 (No. 27), the Elbebordering States have caused a negotiation to be opened by the Second Revising Commission of the Elbe Navigation, assembled at Dresden, relative to an improved Regulation, affording greater facilities to Navigation and Trade, of the system and control of the Dues which the Hanoverian Government has to levy under the denomination of the Brunshausen (formerly Stade) Toll, upon such goods as shall arrive from the North Sea, and, ascending the Elbe, shall pass the mouth of the Schwinge; and for this

* The Stade Toll was abolished by a Treaty dated 22nd June, 1861; and the Elbe Duties were abolished by a Treaty dated 22nd June, 1870.