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Rh the Artillery, and the Commissary General. Which letters shall be executed gratuitously, putting into their hands the list signed in due form, of the magazines, munitions, powder and cannon; without however allowing them, by virtue of these commissions, to lay claim to any immunity or privilege. Their salaries shall be paid out of the sums already appropriated for the support of the garrisons, without being chargeable to his Majesty for any other funds. And, inasmuch as those of the said religion have applied to his Majesty, to know what he has been pleased to order, with regard to the exercise of said religion, in the town of Metz, inasmuch as it is not clearly expressed in the Edict or Secret Articles; his Majesty declares that he has dispatched Letters Patent, by which it is directed, that the Temple, formerly erected in the said town by its inhabitants, shall be restored to them, to take away the materials, or dispose of in any way they shall see fit; without its being lawful however, for them to preach or have any religious exercises; nevertheless, they shall be furnished with a convenient place, within the walls of the said town, where they may have public exercise of said religion, without it being necessary to name it in the Edict. His Majesty also grants, that notwithstanding the exercise of the said religion is forbidden within his court and suite, yet the Dukes, Peers of France, Officers of the Crown, Marquises, Counts, Governors and Lieutenants-General, Marshals of the Camp, and Captains of the Guards of his said Majesty, who shall be of his suite, need not fear any examination into what they do in their own homes, provided that it be only in their own private family, with closed doors and without singing Psalms aloud, or doing any thing to make it known that there is a public exercise of the said religion; and if his said Majesty shall remain over three days in any city or place, where the exercise is permitted, the said exercise may be resumed after that time, and continued just as it was before his arrival. His Majesty declares that in the present posture of his affairs, he has been unable to include his territories beyond the Alps, Bresse, and Barcellone, in the permission given for the exercise of the said pretended Reformed religion. His Majesty, nevertheless, promises that when these territories shall be reduced to obedience, he will treat his subjects there, just as he treats those here, in all points granted by the Edict to those of said religion, notwithstanding any thing to the contrary in the Edict, and in the mean time they shall remain as they are. His Majesty grants, that those of the said