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... And as His Imperial Majesty, upon Complaints made
in the name of the City of Basle, and of all Switzerland, in the presence
of their Plenipotentiarys deputed to the present Assembly, touching some
Procedures and Executions proceeding from the Imperial Chamber against
the said City, and the other united Cantons of the Swiss Country, and their
Citizens and Subjects having demanded the Advice of the States of the Empire
and their Council; these have, by a Decree of the 14th of May of the last
Year, declared the said City of Basle, and the other Swiss-Cantons, to
be as it were in possession of their full Liberty and Exemption of the
Empire; so that they are no ways subject to the Judicatures, or Judgments
of the Empire, and it was thought convenient to insert the same in this
Treaty of Peace, and confirm it, and thereby to make void and annul all
such Procedures and Arrests given on this Account in what form soever. ...