“ The contingencies, either in troops or money, which will be necessary for the due execution of those guarantees, are to be furnished by the respective cantons in the following proportions.
[Here follows the quota, &c. which it is proposed each canton shall furnish.]
3. There shall exist no longer in Switzerland provincial subjects, nor any species of privilege, either local, hereditary, personal or appertaining to families.
4. Every Swiss citizen shall have the liberty of removing his residence from one canton to another, and freely to exercise his industry in any. ”

“ The present act, the result of long conferences between wise men and friends of virtue, appears to us to contain those dispositions which are most proper to ensure the peace and happiness of Switzerland. ”

“ As soon as they shall be executed, the French troops shall be withdrawn.
We recognize Helvetia, constituted conformably to the present act, as an independent power.
We guarantee the federal constitution, and that of each canton, against the enemies of the tranquility of Helvetia, whomsoever they may be, and we promise to continue those relations of beneficence, which for so many ages have united the two nations. ”

“ The administration of national property other than that heretofore belonging to Berne, in the cantons of Vaud and Argovia, is provisionally transmitted to the cantons to which it belonged. The documents respecting the claims of Berne, shall be provisionally transmitted to those commissioners appointed by the cantons of Berne, Vaud and Argovia.
3. In each canton burdened with debts anterior to the revolution, there shall be assigned funds for their funding or discharge, out of what remains of the property heretofore belonging to the canton. ”

“ It is permitted him to acquire political right in whatever canton he establishes himself. But he shall not enjoy, at the same time, political rights in more than one canton.
5. The ancient laws of commerce, external or internal, are abolished. ”