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 546 Readings in European History Votes Votes 15. Saxe-Weimar. . . 16 Saxe-Gotha. . . 17. Saxe-Coburg. . . 18. Saxe-Meiningen. . 19. Saxe-Hildburghausen 20. Mecklenburg-Strelitz 21. Holstein-Oldenburg 22. Anhalt-Dessau. . 23. Anhalt-Bernburg. 24. Anhalt-Cothen. . 25. Schwarzburg-Sondershausen 26. Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt 27. 28. 29. 3°- 3 1 - 3 2 - 33- 34- 35- 36. 37- 38. Hohenzollern-Hechingen Liechtenstein .... Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen Waldeck Reuss, Elder Branch. Reuss, Younger Branch Schaumberg-Lippe. . Lippe The free town Liibeck The free town Frankfort The free town Bremen The free town Hamburg Total votes 69 Reference to the great readjustment of 1803. Members reserve the right to form alliances. The Diet of the Confederation, in deliberating on the organic laws of the union, shall take into consideration whether the mediatized estates of the former empire shall be granted any collective votes in the Plenum. . . . VIII. When the organic laws shall have been drawn up, the Diet of the Confederation shall take into consideration the future permanent order of voting to be adopted. In so doing they shall deviate as little as possible from the regu- lations of the former Diet, especially as based upon the pro- visions of the Decree of the Imperial Commission of 1803. IX. The Diet of the Confederation shall sit at Frankfort- on-the-Main. The first meeting is fixed for the 1st of Sep- tember, 18 1 5. XI. All members of the Confederation pledge themselves to protect Germany as a whole, as well as every single con- federated state, against attack, and mutually guarantee their entire possessions, so far as those are included within the Confederation. When war is once declared on the part of the Confedera- tion no member shall negotiate separately with the enemy, or conclude an armistice or make peace. XII. The members of the Confederation reserve to themselves the right of forming alliances of all kinds. They pledge themselves, however, to contract no engage- ment which shall be directed against the safety of the Con- federation or that of any individual state within the union.