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... And that a reciprocal Amity between the Emperor,
and the Most Christian King, the Electors, Princes and States of the Empire,
may be maintain’d so much the more firm and sincere (to say nothing at
present of the Article of Security, which will be mention’d hereafter)
the one shall never assist the present or future Enemys of the other under
any Title or Pretence whatsoever, either with Arms, Money, Soldiers, or
any sort of Ammunition; nor no one, who is a Member of this Pacification,
shall suffer any Enemys Troops to retire thro’ or sojourn in his Country. ...
... Forasmuch-as that certain Jurisdictions of the
Bergstraet, belonging antiently to the Elector of Mayence, were in the
year 1463 mortgag’d to the House Palatine for a certain Sum of Money: upon
condition of perpetual Redemption, it has been agreed that the same Jurisdictions
shall be Restor’d to the present Elector of Mayence, and his Successors
in the Archbishoprick of Mayence, provided the Mortgage be paid in ready
Mony, within the time limited by the Peace to be concluded; and that he
satisfies the other Conditions, which he is bound to by the Tenor of the
Mortgage-Deeds. ...
... That Processes which have been hitherto enter’d
on this Account, together with the Transactions and Promises made for the
Restitution of Debts, shall be look’d upon as void; and yet the Sums of
Money, which during the War have been exacted bona fide, and with a good
intent, by way of Contributions, to prevent greater Evils by the Contributors,
are not comprehended herein. ...
... 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. ...
... Likewise the most Christian King, in compensation
of the things made over to him, shall pay the said Archduke Ferdinand Charles
three millions of French Livres, in the next following Years 1649 1650,
1651, on St. John Baptist’s Day, paying yearly one third of the said Sum
at Basle in good Money to the Deputys of the said Archduke. ...
... That the Inhabitants of each Place shall be oblig’d,
when the Soldiers and Garisons draw out, to furnish them without Money
the necessary Waggons, Horses, Boats and Provisions, to carry off all things
to the appointed Places in the Empire; which Waggons, Horses and Boats,
the Governors of the Garisons and the Captains of the withdrawing Soldiers
shall restore without any Fraud or Deceit. The Inhabitants of the States
shall free and relieve each other of this trouble of carrying the things
from one Territory to the other, until they arrive at the appointed Place
in the Empire; and the Governors or other Officers shall not be allow’d
to bring with him or them the lent Waggons, Horses and Boats, nor any other
thing they are accommodated with, out of the limits they belong unto, much
less out of those of the Empire. ...