Convention between Great Britain and France, concluded in conformity to the Vth Article of the Principal Treaty, relative to the Occupation of a Military Line in France, by an Allied Army.
ART. I. The composition of the Army of 150,000 Men, which, in virtue of the Vth Article of the Treaty of this day, is to occupy a Military Line along the Frontiers of France; the force and nature of the Contingents to be furnished by each Power, as well as the choice of the Generals who are to command those troops, shall be determined by the Allied Sovereigns.
ART. II. This army shall be maintained by the French Government in the manner following:
The lodging, the fuel and lighting, the provisions and forage, are to be furnished in kind.
It is agreed that the total amount of daily rations shall never exceed 200,000 for Men, and 50,000 for horses, and that they shall be issued according to the Tarif annexed to the present Convention.
With respect to the pay, the equipment, the clothing, and other incidental matters, the French government will provide for such expense by the payment of a sum of 50,000,000 of francs per annum, payable in specie from month to month, from the 1st of December 1815, into the hands of the Allied Commissioners.
But the Allied Powers, in order to concur as much as possible in every thing which can satisfy His Majesty the King of France, and relieve his Subjects, consent that only 30,000,000 of francs, on account of pay, shall, be paid in the first year; on condition of the difference being made up in the subsequent years of the Occupation.
ART. III. France engages equally to provide for the keeping up of the Fortifications and of the buildings of the Military and Civil Administrations, as well as for the arming and provisioning the Fortresses which, in virtue of the Vth Article of the Treaty of this day, are to remain as a Deposit in the hands of the Allied troops.
These respective services, which are to be regulated upon the principles adopted by the French Administration of the War Department, shall be executed upon demand, addressed to the French Government by the Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Troops, with whom some plan shall be agreed upon for ascertaining what may be needful, and concerting the measures necessary to remove all difficulties which may arise, and for accomplishing the object of this Stipulation in a manner equally satisfactory to the interests of the respective Parties.
The French Government will take such measures as it shall judge to be the most effectual, for securing the accomplishment of the different services stated in this and in the preceding Article; and will concert to that effect with the Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Troops.
ART. IV. In conformity to the Vth Article of the Principal Treaty, the Military Line to be occupied by the Allied Troops, shall extend along the Frontiers which separate the Departments of the Pas de Calais, of the North of the Ardennes, of the Meuse, of the Moselle, of the Lower Rhine, and of the Upper Rhine, from the interior of France.
It is further agreed, that neither the Allied Troops nor the French Troops, shall occupy (except it be for particular reasons, and by common consent) the Territories and Districts hereafter named, id est;
In the Department of the Somme, all the Country North of that River, from Ham, to where it falls into the Sea;
In the Department of the Aisne, the Districts of St. Quentin, Vervins and Laon;
In the Department of the Marne, those of Rheims, St. Ménéhould, and Vitry;
In the Department of the Upper Marne, those of St. Dizier and Joinville;
In the Department of the Meurthe, those of Toul, Dieuze, Sarrebourg and Blamont;
In the Department of the Vosges, those of St. Diez, Brugères and Remiremont;
The District of Lure, in the Department of the Upper Saône ; and that of St. Hyppolite in the Department of the Doubs.
Notwithstanding the occupation, by the Allies, of the portion of territory fixed by the Principal Treaty, and by the present Convention, His Most Christian Majesty may, in the Towns situated within the territory occupied, maintain garrisons, the number of which, however, shall not exceed what is laid down in the following enumeration :