XIII.
That if the Neutrality for Italy be accepted, or that a General Peace be Concluded, as in such Ca∣ses a great many Troops would become altogether useless and Chargeable to his Royal Highness; and that besides the excessive Charges requisite for the maintaining of them, they commonly become an occasion of creating a mis-understanding among Princes, when more Troops are kept on foot then are necessary in a State, either for its own Conservation, or for the maintaining of the Dig∣nity of a Sovereign Prince; his Royal Highness doth therefore oblige himself, not to keep in times of Neutrality, any more than Six thousand Foot on this side the Alps, and One thousand five hun∣dred on the other side of the Mountains, for the Garrisons of Savoy, and of the County of Nice; and One thousand five hundred Horse or Dra∣goons; and this Obligation is to continue only till the General Peace be Concluded.
We the above-mentioned Plenipotentiaries have Agreed upon, and Signed these present Articles; and we do promise and engage to procure them to be ratified and confirmed by his Majesty, and by his Royal Highness; promising likewise, that they shall be kept secret till the end of September next; and if at that time new Articles are made, to the same