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that prefents obftacles to wishes fo falutary. His Majesty the King of Sardinia fhall remain neuter with regard to England and to the other powers ftill at war with the French republic.

III. The French republic and his Sardinian Majefty guarantee reciprocally, by all the means in their power, their respective poffeffions which they now hold in Europe during the existence of the prefent alliance. The two powers fhall unite their forces against the common enemy externally, and fhall give no aid, directly or indirectly, to the internal enemies of either.

IV. The contingent of troops which his Majesty the King of Sardinia fhall furnish immediately in confequence of the present treaty, fhall be 8000 infantry and 1000 cavalry, and forty pieces of cannon. In cafe the two powers fhall think it neceffary to augment this contingent, fuch augmentation shall be concerted and regulated by commiffioners invefted with full powers to that effect by the Executive Directory and his Majefty the King of Sardinia.

V. The contingent of troops and artillery fhall be ready and affembled at Novarra, viz. 500 cavalry, 4000 infantry, and twelve field-pieces, by the 30th of Germinal current (April 19), and the remainder in a fortnight after.

This contingent fhall be maintained at the expense of his Majefty the King of Sardinia, and shall receive orders from the commander in chief of the French army in Italy.

: A separate convention settled in concert with the commander in chief of the French army, fhall regulate the nature of the fervice of this contingent.

VI. The troops which form this contingent, fhall participate, in proportion to the number which may be under arms, in the contributions which fhall be levied from the conquered countries; reckoning from the day of the union of the contingent to the army of the republic.

VII. The French republic promifes to procure to his Majesty the King of Sardinia, at the period of a general or continental peace, all the advantages which circumstances may permit him

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--VIII. Neither of the contracting powers fhall conclude a separate peace with the common enemy, and no armistice shall be agreed to by the French republic, in which his Sardinian Majesty is not included.

- IX. All the contributions impofed on the ftates of his Sardinian Majesty which are not yet paid up, fhall cease to be de. manded immediately after the exchange of the ratifications of the prefent treaty.

X. The furnishings which from the fame period fhall be made in the states of his Majefty the King of Sardinia to the French troops, or to prifoners of war, and alfo thofe which may have

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already been made in virtue of private contracts, and which have not yet been paid for by the French republic, fhall be returned in kind to the troops forming the contingent of his Sardinian Majefty: and if the amount of the furnishings fhould exceed the wants of the contingent, the overplus fhall be repaid in fpecie.

XI. The two contracting parties fhall immediately appoint commiffioners charged to negotiate in their name a treaty of commerce agreeably to the bafis ftipulated in article VII. of the treaty of peace concluded at Paris between the French republic and the King of Sardinia.-Meanwhile the pofts and all other commercial relations shall be re-established without delay in the fame manner as they were before the war.

XII. The ratifications of the present treaty of alliance shall be exchanged at Paris in the shortest delay possible.

Done and figned at Turin on the 16th of Germinal (April 5), 5th year of the French republic.

(Signed)

H. CLARKE.
CLEMENT DAMIAN.

The Executive Directory ratify and fign the prefent treaty of alliance with his Majesty the King of Sardinia, negotiated in the name of the French republic by Henry James Clarke, general of divifion, appointed by an order of the Executive Directory on the 13th Ventofe laft, and charged with inftructions to the above effect.

Done at the national palace on the 22d Germinal, 5th year of the French republic.

Treaty of the Union of the Republic of Mulhaufen to the French Republic.

THE Executive Directory of the French republic being affured

that the magiftrates, councils, citizens, and inhabitants of the republic of Mulhaufen have expreffed a defire to be united to the French republic, and to be incorporated with the great nation, and willing to give to the most ancient ally of France the last proof of her generous friendship, have appointed Citizen John Ulric Metzger, member of the central administration of the department of the Upper Rhine, commiffioner of government, to afcertain their wishes for fuch union, and to ftipulate the mode and conditions of the fame; for which purpofe the magiftrates, &c. of the republic of Mulhaufen have nominated to treat and ftipulate in their name, Meffrs. Jean Hofer, burgomafter, Joshua Hofer, fyndic, Paul Hagenin, Jeremiah Koechlin, both members of the great council, James Koechlin, one of the four affiftants to the great council, and Sebaftian Sperlin, all of the town of Mulhau

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fen, and equally and fully charged and authorized to ftipulate for the inhabitants of Illzach and Modenheim, which form the republic and dependency of Mulhaufen. The French commiffioner having, by the authentic documents fubjoined, verified the free expreffion of their wishes for the union, the commiffioner and deputies, after producing and exchanging their full powers, agreed on the following articles:

1. The French republic accepts the wifh of the citizens of the republic of Mulhaufen, and that of the inhabitants of the commune of Illzach, and its appendage of Modenheim, both forming a dependency of Mulhaufen, and declares the faid citizens and inhabitants Frenchmen born.

II. The French government, as a mark of attachment to its ancient allies, confents to prolong their state of neutrality, and confequently exempts them from all real and perfonal requifitions, and from the quartering of foldiers, during the prefent war, and until the period of general peace.

III. Those citizens and inhabitants of Mulhaufen, &c. who may be inclined to remove with all their effects into Switzerland, or elsewhere, thall be allowed one year from the ratification of this treaty, to prepare for their departure, and three years to accomplish the fale and liquidation of their property and debts.

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IV. All the lands and effects of the town, thofe within its own district, and those which it poffeffes in the diftrict of Illzach, and which are under the management of its magistrate and his agents, thofe allotted to the hofpital, public buildings, and those appropriated to public functionaries, mills, commons, arable lands, meadows, paftures, forefts, whether within or without the boundaries of the territory of Mulhaufen, and all rents or quit-rents which may be due to the commune, the hofpital, or any other corporation or foundation of Mulhaufenin general terms, all that constituted the patrimony of the faid republic, and which was known under the general name of com mon property, fhall belong in full right and without any diminu tion to the commune of Mulhaufen.

V. The buildings, goods moveable and immoveable, and fums of money, forming the appanage of the fix corporations called tribes (Zunfte), fhall alfo be regarded as common property.

VI. The forefts, buildings, and lands, belonging to the Teutonic order of Malta, as well as the poffeffions of the chapter of Arlecheim, and the abbey of Lucelles, within the territory of Mulhaufen, fhall become the property of the commune.

VII. Whatever meafures the republic of Mulhaufen may have taken, previous to the exchange of the ratification of these pre

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fents, relative to the various fpecies of property mentioned in the 4th, 5th, and 6th articles, fhall be executed according to their form and tenour.

VIII. The buildings, capitals, rents, lands, forests, commons, and hemp-fields, ceded by the town of Mulhaufen to the inhabitants of Illzach and Modenheim, fhall belong to them in full property, without any exception, and they fhall be free to difpofe of them as they fhall judge moft fuitable to their own interest.

IX. To encourage the neglected agriculture of the communes of Mulhaufen and its dependencies, the French government declares, that all the rents and duties levied on the lands and other immoveables of the citizens of Mulhaufen, and their dependencies, for the behoof of the orders mentioned previously, and which would fall in to the nation, fhall be abolished without any indemnity-and the lawful poffeffors of fuch eftates fhall be exempt from any compensation, and continue to enjoy them in perfect property.

X. The tribunal of commerce of the republic of Mulhaufen fhall be continued, and organized according to the laws of the French republic. There fhall be two notaryships in the town of Molhaufen-the one exercised by the ancient Greffier Tabellion, and the other by one of the citizens à hommes: the titles, documents, and original writings of the chancery, fhall be depofited in the archives, which fhall be under the care of an officer, to be paid by the commune. To facilitate commercial relations, there fhall be established an office for poft-horses; the poft-office for letters fhall be continued. The government will establish a direct communication with Bafle, Colmar, and Belford; and to facilitate the dispatch of business, there will be appointed a stamp and register office. The period of their commencing business will be fixed by the government, as well as that of the payment of perfunal and real contributions; and as there is at prefent no regifter of lands, nor matriculation book, the citizens of Mulhaufen having been exempt from contributions, a commiffion will be appointed to complete the register and matriculation, and to make preliminary arrangements for fixing and affeffing the contributions.

XI. To encourage the commerce and induftry of Mulhaufen, and to fupport the credit of the merchants who carry on trade with foreign capitals, the French government declares, that it means to preferve to the capitalists and its Swifs and other foreign depen dencies, the fame rights and the fame fyftem of legislation which exifted before the union of the republic of Mulhaufen to France. In confequence, all deeds, whether hypothecary or under fign manual, difpofitions, teftaments, legacies, and all acts anterior

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to the ratification of this treaty, fhall be executed according to the ftatutory laws of the town of Mulhaufen.

XII. The republic of Mulhaufen renounces all its connexions with the Helvetic body; it depofits in the bofom of the French republic its right to independent fovereignty, and authorizes the French government to notify to the Helvetic cantons, in the most amicable manner, that their ancient allies will form an integral part of a people no lefs dear to them, and united to whom they will not ceafe to be in a state of intimate relation with their ancient friends.

XIII. The ratification of the prefent treaty fhall be exchanged within one month from the date of fignature.

Done at Mulhaufen, on the 9th Pluviofe, 6th year.

The above treaty was ratified by the Councils on the 11th Ventofe (ift March) 1798.

Additional Convention to the Treaty of Peace figned on the 7th August 1796, between the French Republic and the Duke of Wurtemberg.

1. THE French republic fhall require and infift on the fecularization of the district of Oberkirch, belonging to the late bishopric of Strafburgh, the abbey of Zweifalten, and the principality and prebendary of Ellwangen.

11. The Duke engages to pay what he is perfonally indebted to the inhabitants of the countries ceded by him, and within five years to replace the capitals which have been paid into his private treafury, and for which he has conftituted rents.

III. The Duke engages, by his vote in the diet, to accede to the following propofitions: 1. The ceffion of the left bank of the Rhine, the islands and course of that river. 2. The emancipation of the Italian ftates from the bonds of feudality. 3. The fecularization of the ecclefiaftical principalities which are neceffary for the indemnification of the fecular princes.

IV. He engages in all future wars between France and any other power, to obferve the ftricteft neutrality, and neither to contribute a contingent nor any other affistance.

V. The French troops, in all wars commenced against France, fhall enter the territories of the Duke, remain in them, and poffefs themselves of fuch military pofts as fhall be neceffary for their operations.

VI. A full amnefty fhall be granted to all perfons who may have been arrested or profecuted on account of political opi

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VII. The diplomatic agent of the French republic fhall de

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