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88 GERMANY. [Nafl'au-Dietz.
his arms for NaJ/'au are, faphire a lion topaz, ßmee of billets topaz ; for
Katzenellnbogen, topaz a lion rampant ruby } for Vianen, topaz on a fefs
pearl ; for JDietz, ruby two lions pafiant topaz.
§, 4. The Princes of the old V/alram line have as yet no feat or vote in
the college of Princes, being members only of that of the Wetteraii Imperi?,l
counts, and from thefe they have long fince detached themfelves. In
the Circle of the Uppcr-Rhitie they have five votes, namely, for WeiJburg^
Ufingen, and Idftein, which is lodged in the ruling Prince of Najfaii-Saarbnick-Vlingen
; and for Saarbruck and Ottweiler-, which is annexed to the
iu\\i\g Pünce oi Najau-Saarbrück- Saarbruck. The Princes of the younger
branch of the Olho family acquired a feat and vote in the college of Princes
in the year 1659, and have two other votes, which are both inherent in
the Stadtholder of the United Netherlands, who has alfo two votes in the
Diet of VVefiphalia.
§. 5, In the circular contributions of the Empire, Najfau-Weilburg pays
for a Roman month forty-two florins forty kruitzers. Najfau-Saarbruck-
JJfingefj, ioxJJfingen, twenty florins thirty-three and a half kruitzers ; and
for Idßem eighty-two florins forty kruitzers ; and confequently in the whole
one hundred and three florins thirteen and one third kruitzers. Naffau-Saarbriick-Saarbruck,
pays for Saarbruck, thirty-four florins thirty-three and a
half kruitzers; and for Ottiociler twenty-feven florins thirty-three one third
kruitzers, in all fixty-two florins fix kruitzers and two thirds.
Of Naffaii- Dillenburg and Siegen fome account has been given above.
Najj'aii-Dietz, in the partition of i/Urö//?^, made in the year 1654, is aflefl^ed
at fixty-three i^ florins. The matricular taxation towards the chamber of
Wetzlar, is for NaJJau-Vfingen, Idjlein and Wisbaden forty-four rix-doUars
fixty-one and a half kruitzers. Naßdu- Saarbruck for Weilburg thirty-five
rix-dollars feventy-thrce and a half rthler. for Naffau-Saarbruck and Ottweiler
twenty-fix rix-dollars eighty-two kruitzers, and Naffau-Dietz fortyone
rixdollars feventy-nine and a half kruitzers. Concerning Najfau-Siegen
and Dilhiburg, fee above.
'The
County of
NASSAU-DIET Z.
§. np I PI I S country lies on the river Lahn, being formerly called the Golden
.
County, on acount of its fertility. It is a fief of Tarier, having
been granted to the archbiihop of that city by the Emperor Frederick III. in
fo abfolute a manner that the poffeflbr of this county was to hold it
as a fief
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