The National Register.
London, England, 1815-07-23 00:00:00

-THE sIitTIONAT, PECISTER.

the Chamber of Deputies, and to convoLe, without delay, new
one: but the manner of election not having lieen rOgidatell by law,:
except by the modifications made to the Charter, we have tkonght
it just to the nation that the people should enjoy at the present iniment
the adcantage of selectinti a more nuirkrous and less restraited
presentation than the pre:.rnt eligihilit'y allots; brit willing, never-
theless, that in any case each modification in the Charter shall not
become definitive, but after the Constitutional forms; the .disposi-
tions of the present decree have for its first object the deli-
berations of the Cliambois. The Legislative Power, when collected,
will enact upon the law of elections ; upon the changes necessary
to be made in the Charter of the country ; changes whicli mist only
be faken in points the most urgent and indispensable; imposing
on us obligations of reconciling, as much as possible, the Charter
to the forms preViously in use. Tu these causes, N e have de.
Blared, and do declare; decree and decreed as follows :
1. The Chambei of Deputies is dissolved.
R. The Electoral Colleges of the A rrondissunents shall meet on
the 14th of August of the present year.

3- The Electoral Colleges of-the Departments shall Meet eight
hours after the opening of the Colleges of Arrondissements. •
4. The number of the Deputies is fixed according to the table fol-

lowing this decree.
5. Each Electoral College of the Arrondissement shall elect a
number of Candidates equal to the number of Deputies of the

department.
6. Our Prefects shall transmit to-the President of the Electoral
College of the Department lists of the Candidates proposed by the
Electoral Colleges of the Arrondissements ; which lists shall again
be transmitted by -the Presidents of the Colleges.
7. The Electoral Colleges of the departments shall chose the least
moiety of the Deputies from amongst Huse Candidates. If the
total number of the Deputies of the department is odd, it 1 a II par-
take of the advantage of the portion which should he chosen Ilona
the Candidates.
8. The Electors of Colleges of Affoudissements shall not take
their seats till they have attained the age of 21. The Electors of
Colleges of the Departments must be of the same age.
9. If the number of the Members of the Legien of Honour, who,
conformal-4 to the Act of the Q.2d of February," 1806, shall be
added to the Colleges of Arrondissements or Departments. is rot
complete, our Prefects shall be able, upon the de.mand of the legon-
aries, to propose new adjunctions, which shall receive their prox i-
sionary execution. Nevertheless the legionaries admitted to the
Electoral Colleges of the Departments, ought, conformably to
the 40th Article of the Charter, to pay at least 300 francs of direct
contribution. All adjunctions made after the Ist of March, 1815,
are null and illegal.
10. The Deputies able to be elected at the ag(of twenty-one.
11. Conformably to the anterior laws and regulations, all elec-
tions not made by the greatest moiety of the College shall be nnII.
The absolute majority amongst the Members present is necessary
for the validity of the election.
12. If the Electoral Colleges of Arrondissements have not
completed the election of the number of candidates which ftey
have to chose, the College of the Department mast not proceed to
their operations. .
I:3. The proces-rerbal cf the election shall be examined at the
Chan.b:r of Deputies, who will pronounce upon the regularity of