The National Register.
London, England, 1815-10-22 00:00:00

Tilt NATIONAL MUNSTER.

THE LAW-PROJECT.

Louis, by the Gram. of God, King of Prance and Navarre, &e.
We have ordered that the Law Project, the tenor of wh ch fol-
lows, shall be presented in our name to the Cnamber of flep +ties of
the Departments by our Keeper of the !teals. Peer of Fratr•e, and
Count Portalia, Comisellot in one Council of State, to w tom we
eonsizn the charge of explaining its motives and sustaining the dis•
cnssion thereon.
Art. 1. Are declared seditious nll cries, al! speeches, uttered in pub-
lic places, or such as are allotted to the habitual meeting of eiligeAs;
All printed papers, or such not having been printed which shall have
be"n posted up, sold, distiihutei, or delivered to the pres., and which
shall express ilia menace of an attack against the life, the per. •n, or
the authority of the King, the life or person of the Me.ttbers of the
Royal Family •
Which may he inj,trious or calumnious towards the King or the
Members of his Family;
Mkt shall exci,e to the taking op arms against the Royal autho-
rity, to disobedience of the Constitutional Charter, and 11. e laws,
dis-
regard of the authority of the Magistrates or Agent sof the Governments
legally constituted, or to the dist cirh Ince of public trangoillity by acts
of violence towards persons and property ;
Try which shall be invoked the name of the Usurper, or of an inilivi-
dunt of his family, by which shall bt- provoked, directly or indirectly,
either rice overthrow of the Government, or a change of the order of
succession tit the Throne.
Art. 2. The speeches or writings mentioned in the fillet clause of the
preceding 'of-tide, whether containing inderett provocations to the
offences described in the said article, or wickedly announcing that crimes
or offences of that nature should or ought to he committed, or anon-
festing on i:dention to commit them. ire equally dechired seditious.
Art, ~%r godly of seditious acts, all persops who shall c rculate .
or ceuntenoner, either alarm: concerniog the in•iolability 4)f the pro-
perty called nar-onial, or reports of a pretended te-estakrli-lortient of
rirthe., or fl•ndal ri,rlds. or nrcotods tending to alarm the cit.zeris re-
'peering the maintenance of the legitimate authotities, or to oli:rke their
fidelity.
Art. 4. Are &Ogre(' seditious acts, the removal or deratiotion of
the white flag, of the :mos of France, and other signs of tin..
; of placards of laws or put tic regiiiiitiott.; the ere( (inn of
flag. or the wearing of any enc Lade, or any other sign of rallying f)r•
bi.!dets, or even not authorised by (he King.

:krt. persons guilty of the aforesaid speeches, cries, or acts..—
rtll ntoliors, priuters, and diArihutors of the seditious writitasit•deli-oe,l
by the present law shall he pu6i.lie.l by imp,isunment a al lr..t
three months. and tint t•sceeding Ave year,.
The persons thus convicted, hull further remaim afrer the es;,7-a..
firm of their pitoi.hment, under the •operintentlence. of she- Theis Po.
lice, for a space et time, which shall he deiermilted by the sentence,
acid which shall not esceeti five years. the whole cont irii.ablv tN Sil
Chapter ..f the fat Hook of the Penal Code, without prejobtice to the
criminal prosecution, end application of the wore serious initii•lntiews
pre.exilied by the Pens' Code, in case of the sedLiuus tries, speeches,
writines, and ICial having certain tared.
The rmpaition of the otience strait b. punished coofurtontly to the
srt'i Artie!,. or the Penal c„rte.
A.l. 6. The 'Prison Is of Correctional Police cSsll take cogniz ince of
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the larences mentioned in the present law.
Art. 7. The disposition: of the Code of Criminal Process, and of
Penal (70(1,, cooliono to he executed in ..41 cases in which a is
nut superseded by the enactments.
(Signed)
(rimittersignel)
Given Paris, fit the Theilieries, Ott. 19.
Cintmher ordeted that the I.uw-Pr ,jeer shonl3 he printed its •
order Oat :t might be distributed and. discussed in the Bateaux or: :re
list sittihg. •

BARBE MARBO74.