The plenipotentiaries of the powers that signed the treaty

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The plenipotentiaries of the powers that signed the treaty ACT, No IX. — Federative Constitution of Germany… (1815)

ART. XIV. In order to secure to the ancient States of the empire, mediatised in 1806, and in the subsequent years, the enjoyment of equal rights in all countries belonging to the Confederation, and conformable to the relations at present existing between them, the confederated states establish the following principles:
A.—The houses of the mediatised princes and counts are nevertheless to rank equally with the high nobility of Germany, and are to retain the same privileges of birth-right with the sovereign houses (Ebenbütrtigkeit,) as they have hitherto enjoyed.
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The plenipotentiaries of the powers that signed the treaty ACT, No IX. — Federative Constitution of Germany… (1815)

The Diet of the Confederation shall deliberate upon the measures to be adopted for establishing a fund for the support and pensioning of bishops and other members of the clergy belonging to the countries on the left bank of the Rhine, the payment of which pensions shall be transferred to the Powers actually possessing the said countries.
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The plenipotentiaries of the powers that signed the treaty ACT, No IX. — Federative Constitution of Germany… (1815)

The Diet, in deliberation on the Organic Laws of the Confederation, shall consider whether it be proper to grant to the ancient mediatised districts of the Empire any collective votes.
ART. VII The question whether a subject is to be discussed by the General Assembly, conformably to the principles above established, shall be decided in the ordinary Assembly by a majority.
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