The plenipotentiaries of the high powers who signed the treaty

“ ART. II. The Fortresses, Places, and districts, which, according to the preceding Article are no longer to form part of the French Territory, shall be placed at the disposal of the Allied Powers, at the periods fixed by the IXth Article of the Military Convention annexed to the present Treaty; and His Majesty the King of France renounces for himself his Heirs and successors for ever, the Rights of Sovereignty and property, which he has hitherto exercised over the said Fortresses, Places, and Districts. ”

“ In order to establish a direct communication between the Canton of Geneva and Switzerland, that part of the Pays de Gex, bounded on the east by the lake Leman ; on the south, by the territory of the Canton of Geneva; on the north, by that of the Canton de Vaud; on the west, by the course of the Versoix, and by a Line which comprehends the communes of Collex-Bossy, and Meyrin, leaving the commune of Ferney to France, shall be ceded to the Helvetic Confederacy, in order to be united to the Canton of Geneva. ”

“ The Neutrality of Switzerland shall be extended to the Territory situated to the north of a line to be drawn from Ugine, that town being included, to the south of the Lake of Annecy, by Faverge, as far as Lecheraine, and from thence, by the Lake of Bourget, as far as the Rhone, in like manner as it was extended to the Provinces of Chablais and of Faucigny, by the XCIId Article of the final Act of the Congress of Vienna. [2]
ART. IV. The pecuniary part of the Indemnity to be furnished by France to the Allied Powers, is fixed at the sum of 700 millions of Francs. ”