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Rh The obverse shows the initials of the founder, and the inscription: ' Treue gegen Pflicht und Vaterland' (Faithfulness to duty and fatherland); and the reverse, the arms of the principality, Neufchatel and Valangin. It is worn at the buttonhole, suspended by a ribbon of the Prussian and Neufchatel colours.

12. Decoration for dutiful service in the Landwehr.—The patent says:

1. "This decoration consists of a blue hyacinth or bluebottle coloured ribbon, in which is worked with yellow silk thread the initials 'F. W. IV.' It is worn upon the left breast by an iron clasp.

2. "It is the same for officers, sub-officers or privates.

3. "The claim thereto is founded on the correct fulfilment of the duties in the two arrière-bans of the Landwehr, after having accomplished the prescribed term of service in the standing army.

4. "The decoration is usually bestowed at the discharge from the second arrière-ban in the autumn of every year, beginning with those who were discharged in the autumn of 1842.

5. "It is required from candidate officers, that they should have strictly fulfilled their duties through all the above stations (§ 3), and most punctually attended the exercises to which they were summoned, as also the target-shootings and control-assemblies, and never been punished by a court martial, &c., &c., &c."

Medal for Agriculture was founded in 1847, by King Frederick William IV., for the agriculturists who may distin-