A tour through Holland : $b along the right and left banks of the Rhine, to the south of Germany, in the summer and autumn of 1806Carr, John, Sir
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A tour through Holland : $b along the right and left banks of the Rhine, to the south of Germany, in the summer and autumn of 1806
Carr, John, Sir
Netherlands -- Description and travel; Rhine River Valley -- Description and travel
5. The Elector of Baden, the Duke of Berg, and the Landgrave of Hesse
Darmstadt, shall take the titles of grand Dukes, and enjoy the rights,
honours, and prerogatives belonging to the kingly dignity. Their rank
and precedence shall be in the same order as mentioned in Article I.
The chief of the houses of Nassau shall take the title of Duke, and
the Count of Leyen that of Prince.
6. The affairs of the confederation shall be discussed in a congress
of the union (Diète), whose place of sitting shall be in Francfort,
and the congress shall be divided into two colleges, the kings and the
princes.
7. The members of the league must be independent of every foreign
power. They cannot, in any wise, enter into any other service, but
that of the states of the confederation, and its allies. Those who
have been hitherto in the service of a foreign power, and choose to
adhere to it, shall abdicate their principality in favour of one of
their children.
8. Should any of the said princes be disposed to alienate the whole or
any part of his sovereignty, he can only do it in favour of the
confederates.
9. All disputes, which may arise among the members of the league,
shall be settled in the assembly at Francfort.
10. In this the Prince Primate shall preside, and when it shall
happen, that the two colleges have to deliberate upon any subject, he
shall then preside in the college of Kings, and the Duke of Nassau in
that of the Princes.
11. The time, when the congress of the league, or either of the
colleges, shall have particularly to assemble, the manner of the
convocation, the subjects upon which they may have to deliberate, the
manner of forming their conclusions, and putting them in execution,
shall be determined in a fundamental statute, which the Prince Primate
shall give in proposition, within a month after the notification
presented at Ratisbon. This statute shall be approved of by the
confederated states; this statute shall also regulate the respective
rank of the members of the college of princes.
12. The Emperor shall be proclaimed protector of the confederation. On
the demise of the Primate, he shall, in such quality, as often name
the successor.
13. His Majesty the King of Bavaria cedes to the King of Wirtemberg,
the Lordship of Wisensteig, and renounces the rights which he might
have upon Weiblingen, on account of Burgan.
14. His Majesty the King of Wirtemberg makes over to the Grand Duke of
Berg, the country of Bondorff, Brenlingen, and Villingen, the part of
the territory of the latter city which lies on the right bank of the
Brigoetz, and the city of Tuttlingen, with the manor of the same name
belonging to it, on the right bank of the Danube.
15. The grand Duke of Baden cedes to the King of Wirtemberg, the city
and territory of Biebrach, with their dependencies.
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