Treaty of the Confederation of the Rhine (1806)
“ VII The members of the league must be independent of every foreign power. They cannot in any wise enter into any other service but that of the states of the confederation and its allies. Those who have been hitherto in the service of a foreign power, and chuse to adhere to it, shall abdicate their principality in favour of one of their children. ”
Treaty of the Confederation of the Rhine (1806)
“ Those domains cannot be sold or given to any prince out of the confederation, without being first offered to the prince under whose sovereignty they are placed.XXVIII In penal cases, the now reigning princes and counts, and their heirs, shall preserve their present privileges of trial. They shall be tried by their peers. Their fortune shall not, in any event, be confiscated; but the revenues may, during the life-time of the criminal, be sequestrated. ”
Treaty of the Confederation of the Rhine (1806)
“ Where they reside in the dominions of a member or ally of the confederation, or in any of the possessions which they hold out of the territory of the confederation, they may draw their rents or capitals without paying any tax whatever on them.XXXII Those persons who hold places in the administration of the countries which hereby come under the sovereignty of the confederates, and who shall not be retained by the new sovereign, shall receive a pension according to the situation they have held. ”
