Art. 4. The affairs of the Confederation shall be managed by a Confederal Assembly, in which all members of the union shall vote through their plenipotentiaries, either individually or collectively, in the following manner, without prejudice to their rank.
| 1) | Austria | 1 Vote |
| 2) | Prussia | 1 Vote |
| 3) | Bavaria | 1 Vote |
| 4) | Saxony | 1 Vote |
| 5) | Hanover | 1 Vote |
| 6) | Württemberg | 1 Vote |
| 7) | Baden | 1 Vote |
| 8) | Electoral Hesse (Churshesse [Hesse-Kassel]) | 1 Vote |
| 9) | Grand Duchy of Hesse (Großherzogtum Hessen [Hesse-Darmstadt] | 1 Vote |
| 10) | Denmark on behalf of Holstein | 1 Vote |
| 11) | Netherlands on behalf of the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg | 1 Vote |
| 12) | The Grand Ducal and Ducal Houses of Saxony | 1 Vote |
| 13) | Brunswick (Braunschweig) and Nassau | 1 Vote |
| 14) | Meklenburg-Schwerin and Meklenburg-Strelitz | 1 Vote |
| 15) | Holstein-Oldenburg, Anhalt, and Schwarzburg | 1 Vote |
| 16) | Hohenzollern, Lichtenstein, Reuss, Schaumburg-Lippe, Lippe, and Waldeck | 1 Vote |
| 17) | The free cities of Lübeck, Frankfurth, Bremen, and Hamburg | 1 Vote |
| 18) | Total | 17 Votes |
Art. 5. Austria shall preside in the Confederal Assembly. Each member of the union has the right to make and support propositions, and the presiding state is bound within a determined period to bring them under deliberation.
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