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Rh Austro-Belgian Legion shall be the first to evacuate the Mexican territory.

2. The French authorities in Mexico shall make the necessary arrangements that, at the expense of Mexico, a sum should be assigned to afford a life-pension to each of the wounded and invalids of the above corps, in case a sufficient amount should not be produced for this purpose by the sale of the cannon of the Austrian legion, which are my personal property.

The pensions of which this article speaks are to be paid by a commission nominated by you, to which Colonels Kodolich and Van der Smissen will belong, who will undertake on their part to distribute these sums amongst those legally interested.

3. The French authorities in Mexico shall make every arrangement that the Mexican treasury should pay ten thousand piastres, which shall be remitted to the Princess Iturbide on account of her pension.

At the same time, you will direct that ten thousand piastres should be sent to any town of France to the Prince D. Salvador de Iturbide, on account of that which is owing to him; and it must also be stipulated on the deed, that the young prince alone shall be able to dispose of the capital during his minority.

4. The same French authorities shall arrange that the sum of forty-five thousand piastres shall be handed, on account of the Mexican government, to Don Carlos Sanchez Navarro, in order to pay the debts of the civil list.

There shall also be remitted to the said Sanchez Navarro the sums necessary to settle the accounts of the office of the great seal, it being understood that these accounts, as well as those of the civil list, shall be paid from the sums which the state continues to owe the civil list.

5. The payments included in articles 2, 3, and 4, shall be fully made on the day when the last portion of the expeditionary corps shall leave the city of Mexico.

My personal property, my dear marshal, will remain confided to your safe keeping; and with regard to the produce of it I shall beg you, in conjunction with Sanchez Navarro, to comply with the tenor of my instructions.

Receive the assurance of my feelings of sincere friendship, with which I am your very affectionate,