Subject: DeLu condo<br/>
Date: Aug 10, 2001 @ 05:18<br/>
Author: Brendan Whyte (&quot;Brendan Whyte&quot; &lt;brwhyte@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1035001706">Treaty of vienna, 1815. Article XXV &quot;Prussian possessions on the left bank <br/>
of the rhine&quot;<br/>
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First paragrph: The frontier shall commence at Bingen ... &quot;yadda yadda ...<br/>
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Second para:  &quot;From Rintzenberg to the Sarre the line of demarcation shall <br/>
follow...&quot; yadda yadda...<br/>
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Third para: &quot;From the point where the limit of the Canton of Conz, below <br/>
Gomlingen, traverses the Sarre, the line shall decend the Sarre till it <br/>
falls into the Moselle; thence it shall reascend the Moselle to its junction <br/>
with the Sarre, from the latter river to the mounth of the Our, and along <br/>
the Our to the limits of the ancient department of the Ourthe. The places <br/>
traversed by these rivers shall not at all be divided, but shall belong, <br/>
with their territories, to the Power in whose State the greater part of <br/>
these places shall be situated; the rivers themselves, in so far as they <br/>
form the frontier, shall belong in common to the two Powers bordering on <br/>
them.&quot;<br/>
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There you go.<br/>
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The next paragraph of the same article says<br/>
&quot;In the old Dept of the Ourthe, the five Cantons of st Vith, Malmedy, <br/>
Cronenberg, Schleiden and eupen, with the advanced point of the Canton of <br/>
Aubel, to the shouth of Aix-la-Chapelle, shall belong to Prussia....&quot;<br/>
the &#39;advanced point&#39; was the subject of disagreement between Dutch and <br/>
Preussian commissioners, leaving Moresnet at that place, unassigned, and so <br/>
jointly administered by Prussia (then Germany) and Netherlands (then <br/>
Belgium).<br/>
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This translation, is pp49-50 of Oakes and Mowat, &quot;The Great European <br/>
Treaties of the 19th Century&quot;, Oxford, Clarnedon Press, 1918.<br/>
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BW<br/>
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