The plenipotentiaries of the high powers who signed the convention

“ Art. XIV. The XXVIth Article of the Treaty of the 30th May, 1814, which releases the French Government from the 1st January, of the same year, from the payments of all Pensions, Civil, Military and Ecclesiastical, Allowances on retiring, and half pay, to all Individuals no longer Subjects of France, is maintained. With regard to the arrears of Pensions, to the period above-mentioned, the French Government engages to give evidence of them, by furnishing exact Statements, drawn from the Pension Registers, which are to be compared with those kept by the Local Administrative Authorities. ”

“ Art. VIII. The French Government having refused to recognize the claim of the Government of the Low Countries, relative to the payment of the interest of the Debt of Holland, which may not have been paid for the half years of March and September, 1813, it is agreed to refer to a Commission of Arbitration the decision of the principle of the said question. ”

“ The deposits legally entrusted to the Caisse d'Amortissement are to be refunded in money, within 6 months from the exchange of the Ratifications of the present Convention, whenever the delivery of the documents shall have taken place during the first 3 months of the liquidation. ”