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... The Garisons shall be maintain’d according to
the Order, which has been hitherto usually practis’d, for the Maintenance
of the Hessian Soldiers and Officers; and the things necessary for the
keeping of the Forts shall be furnish’d by the Arch-bishopricks and Bishopricks,
in which the said Fortresses are situated, without any Diminution of the
Sum above-mention’d. It shall be allow’d the Garisons, to exact the Money
of those who shall retard Payment too long, or who shall be refractory,
but not any more than what is due. The Rights of Superiority and Jurisdiction,
as well Ecclesiastical as Secular, and the Revenues of the said Castles
and Towns, shall remain in the Arch-bishop of Cologne. ...
... That the Diets of the Empire shall be held within
six Months after the Ratification of the Peace; and after that time as
often as the Publick Utility, or Necessity requires. That in the first
Diet the Defects of precedent Assemblys be chiefly remedy’d; and that then
also be treated and settled by common Consent of the States, the Form and
Election of the Kings of the Romans, by a Form, and certain Imperial Resolution;
the Manner and Order which is to be observ’d for declaring one or more
States, to be within the Territorys of the Empire, besides the Manner otherways
describ’d in the Constitutions of the Empire; that they consider also of
re-establishing the Circles, the renewing the Matricular-Book, the re-establishing
suppress’d States, the moderating and lessening the Collects of the Empire,
Reformation of Justice and Policy, the taxing of Fees in the Chamber of
Justice, the Due and requisite instructing of ordinary Deputys for the
Advantage of the Publick, the true Office of Directors in the Colleges
of the Empire, and such other Business as could not be here expedited. ...
... The Emperor, Empire, and Monsieur the Arch Duke
of Insprug, Ferdinand Charles, respectively discharge the Communitys, Magistrates,
Officers and Subjects of each of the said Lordships and Places, from the
Bonds and Oaths which they were hitherto bound by, and ty’d to the House
of Austria; and discharge and assign them over to the Subjection, Obedience
and Fidelity they are to give to the King and Kingdom of France; and consequently
confirm the Crown of France in a full and just Power over all the said
Places, renouncing from the present, and for ever, the Rights and Pretensions
they had thereunto: Which Cession the Emperor, the said Arch-Duke and his
Brother (by reason the said Renunciation concerns them particularly) shall
confirm by particular Letters for themselves and their Descendants; and
shall so order it also, that the Catholick King of Spain shall make the
same Renunciation in due and authentick form, which shall be done in the
name of the whole Empire, the same Day this present Treaty shall be sign’d. ...
... Besides the said Sum, the most Christian King
shall be oblig’d to take upon him two Thirds of the Debts of the Chamber
of Ensisheim without distinction, whether by Bill or Mortgage, provided
they be in due and authentic Form, and have a special Mortgage either on
the Provinces to be transfer’d, or on them to be restor’d; or if there
be none, provided they be found on the Books of Accounts agreeing with
those of the Receits of the Chamber of Ensisheim, until the end of the
Year 1632, the said Sums having been inserted among the Debts of the Community,
and the Chamber having been oblig’d to pay the Interests: And the King
making this Payment, the Archduke shall be exempted for such a proportion.
And that the same may be equitably executed, Commissarys shall be deputed
on the one side and the other, immediately after the signing of this present
Treaty, who before the Payment of the first Sum, shall agree between them
what Debts every one has to pay. ...