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 condense into one general act all arrangements of primary and permanent importance, and to add to this act as integral arrangements of the Congress, the treaties, conventions, declarations, regulations, and other separate acts which may be named in this present act. The aforesaid powers having named plenipotentiaries to the Congressthose of the plenipotentiaries who have been witness to the termination of these negociations, are authorized, after having shown their credentials in. due form, to affix their signature to the following articles:—

“The duchy of Warsaw, with the exception of those provinces and districts which are otherwise disposed of by the following articles, is united to Russia. It shall be irrevocably bound to the Russian empire by its constitution to be enjoyed by his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, his heirs and successors for ever. His Imperial Majesty reserves to himself the power of determining the extent of that part of his States which is to be separately administered, as he shall deem fit. He will take with his other titles that of Czar, King of Poland, according to the customary formula for his other possessions.

The Polish subjects of Russia, Austria, and Prussia shall enjoy a representation and national institutions, modified into such forms of government, as the powers upon whom they depend may judge expedient to grant.”

“The treaties, conventions, declarations, ordennances, and other particular acts, which are annexed to the present general act, and specifically the undermentioned; to wit:

First, The treaty between Russia and Austria, concluded $21 April,⁄3d May,$ 1815.