The plenipotentiaries of the high powers who signed the convention

“ ART. V. No single Bons au Porteur shall be delivered for the sum due each day, but the sum so due, shall be divided into several Coupures or Bills of 1,000, 2,000, 5,000, 10,000, and 20,000 Francs, the which sums added together, will amount to the sum total of the payment due for each day.
ART. VI. The Allied Powers, convinced that it is as much their interest as that of France, that too considerable a sum of Bons au Porteur should not be issued at once, agree that there never shall be in circulation Bons for more than 50,000,000 of francs at a time. ”

“ ART. I. The Allied Powers, acknowledging the necessity of guaranteeing the tranquillity of the countries bordering on France, by erecting fortifications on certain points the most exposed, have determined to set apart for that object a portion of the sums which are to be paid by France, leaving the remainder for general distribution, under the head of Indemnities. A fourth part of the total sum to be paid by France shall be applied to the erecting fortifications. ”

“ ART. XI. Prussia and Austria having declared the pressing necessity of their obtaining, in the course of the six first months, a larger sum than by an equal distribution would fall to their share; Russia and England consent, in order to facilitate the general arrangement, that each of those two powers should anticipate ten millions of francs of their proportion, to take date from the first payment, on condition of their holding themselves accountable for that sum in the subsequent years. ”