troops will immediately withdraw beyond the frontiers previously established.

The government of his majesty the King of Italy assumes a portion of the debt appertaining to the territories ceded by the present treaty, and which is fixed at 35,000,000 of florins, Austrian convention currency, payable in eleven successive instalments within twenty months, in the manner and form established in the next additional article.

The Monte Lombardo-Venetian, with its assets of 3,500,000 florins, and its liabilities of 60,000,000 florins, passes entirely into the hands of the government of his majesty the King of Italy. The government of the King of Italy succeeds to the rights and engagements resulting from the contracts regularly entered into by the Austrian administration in the interest of the ceded territory.

The Austrian Government is bound to reimburse all the sums paid into the Austrian treasury as deposits of caution money by Lombardo-Venetian subjects, communes, public establishments, and religious corporations.

The Italian government will be bound in like manner with respect to sums paid by Austrian subjects and corporations into the Monte Lombardo-Venetian. The government of his majesty the King of Italy recognizes and confirms the railway concessions granted by the Austrian government in the ceded territory in all their stipulations and their periods of duration. From the day upon which the ratifications of the present treaty are exchanged, the Italian gov. ernment assumes all the rights and charges of the Austrian government in respect of the above-mentioned concessions on the railway lines in the ceded territory. Until new and ulterior arrangements are made, the total receipts of the two railway systems north and south of the Alps are admitted for the lines situated in the ceded territory, as the estimate of gross revenue upon which is based the estimate for the kilometric guaranty of thirty miles.

A special convention between the contracting parties, with participation of the railway company interested, without reservation as to time, and leaving full liberty to all parties, will regulate the mode of separating the two railway systems north and south of the Alps.

Lombardo-Venetian subjects domiciled upon the ceded territory will enjoy, during one year, after previous declaration before the competent authority, full and entire liberty to export their movable property free of duty, and to withdraw with their families to the states of his Imperial Royal Apostolic Majesty, in which case they will preserve their Austrian citizenship. They will be at liberty to retain their landed property upon Lombardo-Venetian territory.

The same right will belong to natives of Venetia living in the other provinces of the Austrian empire. Those who avail themselves of these stipulations shall in no way be molested in their persons or their property situated in the respective states on account of their option.

The above period of one year is extended to two years in the case of subjects, natives of the ceded territory, who at the time of the ratification of the present treaty may live out of the territory of the Austrian monarchy. Natives of the ceded territory who are in the Austrian army will immediately be discharged from service and sent to their homes.

It is understood that those among them who declare their wish to remain in the imperial service will not on that account be molested either in their per sons or property. The same guaranties are assured to the civil functionaries, natives of the ceded territery, who shall have manifested their intention of continuing in the offices which they hold in the Austrian service.

The regular civil and military pensions chargeable upon the Lombardo-Venetian treasuries remain payable to those entitled to them, and eventually to their

widows and children, and will be paid in future by the Italian government.

The archives containing titles to property, the administrative and judicial documents concerning the ceded territory, and the objects of art appertaining to the same existing among the archives of the Austrian empire, will be handed over to the commissioners of his majesty the King of Italy as soon as possible.

All the treaties and conventions previously concluded between his majesty the King of Italy and his majesty the Emperor of Austria will be confirmed in all that is not annulled by the present treaty. Nevertheless, the two contracting parties engage themselves to submit those treaties and conventions in the course of the year to a general revision, in order to introduce in the same by common accord those modifications which may be considered beneficial in the interest of the two countries. Navigation upon the Lake of Garda is free, subject to the particular regulations of the ports and the littoral police.

A convention to regulate the necessary measures for preventing and repressing contraband trade will be concluded between Austria and Italy within a year from the date upon which the ratifications of the present treaty are exchanged. Meanwhile, the convention concluded on the 22d of November, 1851, between Sardinia and Austria, will remain in force.

The Italian government raises the sequestration upon all the private property of the Italian ex-princes, without prejudice, however, to the rights of the state, and the right of the third portion over the property in question. In order to contribute in the best manner possible to the restoration of peace, his majesty the King of Italy and his majesty the Emperor of Austria declare and promise, both in their respective territories and in the restituted or ceded countries, that no person compromised during the late events in the Peninsula, to whatever class or condition belonging, shall be prosecuted, molested, or disturbed, either personally or in their property, on account of their conduct or their political opinions.

In accordance with the above treaty, a popular vote took place in Venetia in October on the question of annexation to Italy. The result showed a remarkable unanimity, 641,758 votes being cast in favor of, and only sixty-nine against annexation. On November 4th the king, surrounded by the princes, the ministers, the dignitaries of the state, and the president of the Chamber of Deputies, received the Venetian deputation, which communicated to his majesty the result of the plebiscitum. After the ceremony the national guard, the troops, and the various corporate bodies defiled before his majesty amid loud cheers from the assembled multitude. General Menabrea delivered a speech to the king on placing in his majesty's hands the iron crown of Lombardy, Upon receiving the result of the plebiscitum from the Venetian deputation, King Victor Emmanuel said: "This day is the proudest of my life. Eighteen years ago my father proclaimed from this city the war of independence, and to-day far will in the Venetian provinces, which, united you bring to me the manifestations of the popuwith Italy, declare my father's wish to be accomplished. You confirm by this solemn act what Venetia did up to 1848, and has maintained up to the present day with admirable constancy and abnegation. I therefore pay a grateful tribute to those generous patriots who