States to which Austrian territory was transferred and States arising from the dismemberment of Austria shall acquire all property within their territories of the old or new Austrian Government, including that of the former royal fam ily. The value is to be assessed by the Reparation Commission and credited to Austria on the reparation account.
Property of predominant historic in terest to the former kingdoms of Po land, Bohemia, Croatia, Slavonia, Dal matia, Bosnia, Herzegovina, the Repub lic of Ragusa, the Venetian Republic or the episcopal principalities of Trent and Bressanone may be transferred with out payment.
Austria renounces all rights as to all international financial or commercial or ganizations in allied countries, Germany, Hungary, Bulgaria, Turkey, or the for mer Russia Empire. She agrees to ex propriate, on demand of the Reparation Commission, any rights of her nationals in any public utility or concession in these territories, in separated districts, and in mandatory territories, to trans fer them to the commission within six months, and to hold herself responsible for indemnifying her nationals so dis possessed.
She also agrees to deliver within one month the gold deposited as security for the Ottoman debt, renounce any benefits accruing from the treaties of Bucharest and Brest-Litovsk, and transfer to the allied and associated Governments all claims against her former Allies.
Any financial adjustments, such as those relating to banking and insurance companies, savings banks, postal savings banks, land banks or mortgage companies in the former monarchy, necessitated by the dismemberment of the monarchy, and the resettlement of public debts and cur rency, shall be regulated by agreements between the various governments failing which the Reparation Commission shall appoint an arbitrator or arbitrators, whose decision shall be final.
Austria shall not be responsible for pensions of nationals of the former em pire who have become nationals of other States.
As for special objects carried off by the House of Hapsburg and other dy nasties from Italy, Belgium, Poland, and Czecho-Slovakia, a committee of three jurists appointed by the Reparation Commission is to examine within a year the conditions under which the objects were removed and to order restoration if the removal were illegal. The list of articles includes among others: For Tuscany, the Crown Jewels and part of the Medici heirlooms: for Mo dena a Virgin by Andrea del Sarto and manuscripts; for Palermo, twelfth cen tury objects made for the Norman Kings; for Naples, ninety-eight manuscripts carried off in 1718; for Belgium, vari ous objects and documents removed in 1794; for Poland, a gold cup of King Ladislas IV., removed in 1772; and for Czecho-Slovakia various documents and historical manuscripts removed from the Royal Castle of Prague.