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LEFT TREATY 491 TBEBIZOND ments and historical material possessed by public institutions and having a di- rect bearing on the history of the ceded territories which have been removed dur- ing the past ten years, except that for Italy the period shall be from 1861. As to artistic archaeological, scientific or historic objects formerly belonging to the Austro-Hungarian Government or Crown, Austria agrees to negotiate with the State concerned for an amicable ar- rangement for the return to the districts of origin on terms of reciprocity of any object which ought to form part of the intellectual patrimony of the ceded dis- tricts, and for twenty years to safe- guard all other such objects for the free use of students. The v^ar debt held outside the former empire shall be a charge on the Re- public of Austria alone. All war se- curities shall be stamped within two months with the stamp of the State tak- ing them up, replaced by certificates, and settlement made to the Reparation Commission. The currency notes of the former Aus- tro-Hungarian Bank circulating in the separated territory shall be stamped within two months by the new govern- ments of the various territories with their own stamp, replaced within twelve months by a new currency, and turned over within twelve months to the Repara- tion Commission. The bank itself shall be liquidated as from the day after the signature of the treaty by the Repara- tion Commission. States to which Austrian territory was transferred and States arising from the dismemberment of Austria shall acquire all property within their territories of the old or new Austrian Government, including that of the former royal fam- ily. The value is to be assessed by the Reparation Commission and credited to Austria on the reparation account. Property of predominant historic in- terest to the former kingdoms of Po- land, Bohemia, Croatia, Slavonia, Dal- matia, Bosnia, Herzegovina, the Repub- lic of Ragusa, the Venetian Republic or the episcopal principalities of Trent and Bressanone may be transferred with- out payment. Austria renounces all rights as to all international financial or commercial or- ganizations in allied countries, Germany, Hungary, Bulgaria, Turkey, or the for- mer Russia Empire. She agrees to ex- propriate, on demand of the Reparation Commission, any rights of her nationals in any public utility or concession in tliese territories, in separated districts, and in mandatory territories, to trans- fer them to the commission within six months, and to hold herself responsible for indemnifying her nationals so dis- possessed. She also agrees to deliver within one month the gold deposited as security for the Ottoman debt, renounce any benefits accruing from the treaties of Bucharest and Brest-Litovsk, and transfer to the allied and associated Governments all claims against her former Allies. Any financial adjustments, such as those relating to banking and insurance companies, savings banks, postal savings banks, land banks or mortgage companies in the former monarchy, necessitated by the dismemberment of the monarchy, and the resettlement of public debts and cur- rency, shall be regulated by agreements between the various governments failing which the Reparation Commission shall appoint an arbitrator or arbitrators, whose decision shall be final. Austria shall not be responsible for pensions of nationals of the former em- pire who have become nationals of other States. As for special objects carried oflF by the House of Hapsburg and other dy- nasties from Italy, Belgium, Poland, and Czecho-Slovakia, a committee of three jurists appointed by the Reparation Commission is to examine within a year the conditions under which the objects were removed and to order restoration if the removal were illegal. The list of articles includes among others: For Tuscany, the Crown Jewels and part of the Medici heirlooms: for Mo- dena a Virgin by Andrea del Sarto and manuscripts; for Palermo, twelfth cen- tury objects made for the Norman Kings; for Naples, ninety-eight manuscripts carried off in 1718; for Belgium, vari- ous objects and documents removed in 1794; for Poland, a gold cup of King Ladislas IV., removed in 1772; and for Czecho-Slovakia various documents and historical manuscripts removed from the Royal Castle of Prague. THEBIZOND, the principal Turkish port on the Black Sea; on the N. E. coast of Asia Minor, and the second com- mercial city of the empire; 110 miles N. W. of Erzerum. It is finely situated on the steep slope of the Kolat Dagh (800 feet high) facing the sea, and is partly surrounded by walls, and further defended by a Genoese citadel on an ad- joining hill, and by forts at the mouth of the harbor. The gorge-like course of a mountain stream traverses Trebizond, and is crossed by several bridges. The coast is high and crested with pine woods, and from the sea the irregularly- built town, with its minarets and gar-