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we are no longer in the ordinacondition of a representative government. The principles upon which it was established have not remained untouched amidst political vicissitudes. A turbulent democracy, which has penetrated even into our laws, is substituted for legitimate power. It disposes of the majority of elections through the means of these journals and of societies constituted with similar views, it paralyzes as much as in its power the regular exercise of the most essential prerogatives of the crown, that of dissolving the elective chamber. By that even the constitution of the State is shaken. Your Majesty alone retains the power to preserve and establish it upon its basis.

The right as well as the duty to assure its maintenance, is the inseparable attribute of sovereignty. No Government upon earth would be stable if it had not the right to provide for its own security. This law is pre-existent to all other laws, because it is founded in the nature of things. These are, Sire, maxims which acknowledge the sanction of time and the avowal of all civilians of Europe.

ance with the spirit of the constitution, but, which are contrary to legal order, the whole resources of which have been uselessly expended.

These measures, Sire, which ought to insure success, your ministers do not hesitate to propose, feeling confident that justice will be assisted by power.

Your Majesty's very humble and very faithful subjects. THE PRES. OF THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS. MINISTER OF JUSTICE, MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR, MINISTER OF MARINE, MINISTER OF FINANCES, MINISTER OF ECCLESIASTICAL AFFAIRS, MINISTER OF PUBLIC WORKS.

Decrees of the King.

Charles, by the grace of God, King of France and Navarre. To all those to whom these presents may come, greeting: Having resolved to prevent the recurrence of measures, which have exercised a pernicious influence upon the late operations of the electoral colleges wishing in consequence, to reform according to the principles of the Constitution, those rules of election of which experience has taught the inconvenience, we have recognised the necessity of employing the power in us vested, to provide by acts emanating from us, for the security of the State and the suppression of every enterprise directed against the dignity of the Crown. For these reasons, our Council being heard, we have ordered and we ordain:

Art. 1. Agreeable to the 15th, 36th, and 30th articles of the Constitution, the Chamber of Deputies will be composed only of Deputies of Departments.

2. The income necessary to constitute an elector and the income necessary to constitute eligibility, shall be exclusively confined to sums for which the elector and the eligible shall be personally enregistered in the rolls for imposition of direct and personal taxes in quality of proprietor or

tenant.

4. The Deputies will be elected and the Chamber will be re-opened in the form and for the time fixed by the 37th article of the Constitution.

5. The electoral colleges will be divided into colleges of arrondissements and colleges of departments, always excepting the electoral colleges of departments to which only one deputy is assigned.

6. The electoral colleges of arrondissements will be composed of all the electors who have their political domicile established in the arrondissement. The electoral colleges of departments will be composed of one fourth of the electors paying the highest tax in the department.

7. The present limits of the electoral colleges of arrondissement are maintained.

8. Each electoral college of arrondissement will elect a number of candidates equal to the number of deputies of departments.

9. The college of arrondissement will be divided into as many sections as it has a right to elect candidates. This division will be

made proportionably to the number of sections and to the total number of electors of the college, having regard as much as possible to the convenience of localities and neighborhoods.

10. The sections of the electoral college of arrondissement may be assembled in different places.

11. Each section of the electoral college of arrondissement will elect a candidate and proceed separately.

12. The Presidents of the section of the electoral college of arrondissement will be named by the Prefects from among the electors of the arrondissement.

13. The college of department will elect the deputies. Half the deputies of department must be chosen from the general list of candidates proposed by the colleges of arrondissement; nevertheless, if the number of deputies of department is odd, the division shall be made without reduction of the right reserved to the college of department.

14. In case, either in consequence of omissions of double nominations, or of nominations made void, the list of candidates, proposed by the colleges of arrondissement shall be incomplete if this list is thus reduced below the half of the requisite number, the college of department may elect one more deputy without reference to the list; if the list is reduced below one fourth, the college of department may elect the whole number of the deputies of department without reference to the lists.

15. The Prefects, sub-prefects and general officers commanding the military divisions and the de

partments, are not eligible in the departments where they exercise their functions.

16. The list of electors will be determined by the prefect in council of prefature-it shall be published five days before the meeting of the colleges.

17. Claims to the right of suffrage, not acknowledged by the prefects, shall be determined by the Chamber of Deputies at the same time that they shall determine upon the validity of the operations of the colleges.

18. In the electoral colleges of department the two eldest electors and the two electors paying the highest taxes, shall perform the functions of scrutators the same rules will be observed in the sections of the college of arrondissement composed of more than fifty electors. In the other sections of the college, the functions of scrutator will be exercised by the oldest and highest taxed of the elector's. The secretary will be named in the college of the sections of colleges, by the president and

scrutators.

19. No one will be admitted in the college or section of college if he is not enrolled on the list of electors for said section. This list will be given to the president, and will remain posted in the chamber of sessions of said college during its operations.

20. All discussion or deliberation whatever in the electoral colleges is forbidden.

21. The police of the college is invested in the president. No armed force can, without his demand, be placed in the vicinity of the place of sessions. Military

commanders will be held subject. to his request.

22. The elections in the colleges and sections of colleges will be decided by an absolute majority of the whole number of votes given. Nevertheless, if the elections are not terminated after twice balloting, the bureau will determine the list of those persons who shall have obtained the greatest number of suffrages at the second balloting. It shall contain double the number of names that there remain elections to be made. At the third balloting the suffrages can only be given to the persons inscribed upon the list and the nomination will be made by the relative majority.

23. The electors will vote by tickets, [bulletins deliste] each ticket will contain as many names as there are elections to be made.

24. The electors will write their vote at the bureau or they will cause it to be there written by the scrutators.

25. The name, the qualifications, and the residence of each elector, that deposits his ticket or vote, shall be inscribed by the secretary upon a list destined to verify the number of voters.

26. Each balloting shall be continued during six hours, and the votes shall be counted during the sessions.

27. A statement of the result of each session shall be drafted. This statement shall be signed by all the members of the bureau.

28. Conformably to the 46th article of the constitution, no amendment can be made to a law in the Chamber if it has been proposed or consented to by us, and

if it has not been returned to or discussed in committee.

29. All regulations opposed to the present ordinance are annulled.

30. Our ministers are charged with the execution of the present ordinance.

Given at St Cloud, the 25th of July, in the year of our Lord 1830, and the sixth of our reign. CHARLES.

By the King:

The President of the Council of Min

isters,

Minister of Justice,

CHANTELAUZE.

⚫ Minister of the Marine,

BARON D'HZUSSEZ,

Minister of the Interior,

COUNT DE PEYRONNET.

Minister of the Finances,

MONTBEL.

CAPELLE.

Charles - By the Grace of God, King of France, and Navarre. To all those to whom these presents may come, greeting: In accordance with the royal ordinance, bearing date of this day, relative to the organization of the Electoral Colleges, upon the report of our Minister of the Interior. We have ordained and ordain as follows:

Art. 1. The Elector Colleges shall assemble, namely, the electoral colleges of arrondissement, the sixth of September next, and the electoral colleges of Department, the 18th of the same month.

2. The Chamber of Peers and the Chamber of Deputies of Department are convoked for the 28th of the month of Sept. next.

2. The regulations of the first, second and ninth articles of the 1st section of the law of 21st October, 1814, are in force : consequently no journal, periodical, or semi-periodical publication, established, or to be established, without regard to the matters treated of, can appear either in Paris, or in the departments, but in virtue of authorization, obtained separately by the author and publisher. The authorization must be renewed every three months. It may be revoked.

3. This authorization may be provisionally granted, withheld or withdrawn from the journals, periodical and semi-periodical works, now published, or which may hereafter be published in the departments, by the Prefects.

4. Journals and other writings, published in contravention of the 2d article, will be immediately

5. No writing, under twenty sheets of impression can appear in Paris, without authorization obtained from our Minister of the

Interior and of the Prefects in the Departments. Writings published without authorization will be immediately seized. The presses and types, which have served for the impression will be placed under seal in a public depot, or placed hors de service.

6. The reports of trials and the memorials of literary and scientific societies, if they treat entirely or in part of political matters, are subjected to the above-mentioned authorization, a case in which the articles prescribed by article 5th, will be applicable.

Dissolution of the Chamber of Deputies.

Charles, by the grace of God King of France and Navarre. To all those to whom these presents may come, greeting: virtue of the fiftieth article of the Constitution, having been informed of the manœuvres practised in many parts of our kingdom to deceive and mislead the electors during the last operations of the electoral colleges, our Council being heard, we have ordained and do ordain:

Art. 1. The Chamber of Deputies is dissolved.

2. Our Minister of the Interior is charged with the execution of this present ordinance.

Given at St Cloud, the 25th day of July, in the year of our Lord 1830, and the sixth of our reign.

ents.

CHARLES.

CH. DE PEYRONNET,
Minister of the Interior.

The Protest of the Deputies. The undersigned, regularly elected Deputies by the Colleges of Arrondissements, by virtue of and conformably to the Constituthe Royal Ordinance of the, tional Charter, and to the Laws relative to Electors of the, and who are now at Paris, consider themselves as absolutely obliged, by their duties and their honor, to protest against the measures which the advisers of the Crown have lately caused to be proclaimed for the overthrow of