The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-09 00:00:00

FORTIFICATIONS OF PARIS.

The Bulletin des Lois of Monday and the Itionileur
of Tuesday promulgate the law for the fortifications of
Paris with the Royal assent. As it has not yet been
published in an entire form, we supply the text of this
historical document :

" LAW WHICH ASSIGNS 140 MILLIONS OF FRANCS FOR

THE WORKS OF THE FORTIFICATIONS OF PARIS.

" Louis Philippe, King of the French, to all greeting,
" We have propose .t (the Chambers), we have or-
dained, and we ordain, as follows :
" Article 1. A sum of one hundred and forty mill:ons
of francs (5,600,0001.) is especially assigned for the
works of the fortifications of Paris.

" Art. 2. These works. will comprise-1. An en
ciente continue embracing the two banks of the Seine,
bastioned and terraced with ten metres of lined scarp,
2. Exterior works casemated.

" Art. 3. The funds assigned for these works shall
be employed simultaneously for the execution of the
enciente and the external works, and divided into va-
rious budgets, in the proportion hereafter specified.
" Art. 4. The sum of 140 millions allowed by virtue
of article 1 of the present law comprises that of 13
millions, forming the amount of the credits already
opened on the budget of 1840 at the Ministries of War
and Public Works by Royal Ordonnances of last St.p-
tember 10, and October 4 and 2.5.

" On the sum of 127 milllons remaining to be al-
lowed, the sum is assigned of—

" Thirty-five million; for the works to be executed in
1841 ; 20 millions for the works to be executed iu
1842. The portion of these credits which may not be
used during the budget to which it is assigned will be
carried over to the following budget.
" Art 5. These divers credits shall be provided for
by means of the ordinary and extraordinary services of
the budgets of 1840, 1841, and 1842.
" Art. 6. The expenses incurred by the Department
of Public Works, by virtue of the ordonnances of the
10th, 19th, and 29th September, and the 4th, 18th,
and 19th of October, 1840, shall be liquidated by the
Minister of that department, and discharged out of the
credit of seven millions which has been opened, until it
attains that amount. The surplus, if there be any,
shall, after the liqnidation, be discharged on the ordon-
nances of the Minister of War, and out of the credits
opened by the present law.
" Art. 7. The city of Paris cannot be classed
amongst the places of war of the kingdom but by virtue
of a special law.

" Art. 8. The first zone of military servitudes, as it
hat been regulated by the law of the 17th of July, 1819,
shall be alone applied
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the exterior forts sole zone of 250 metrei, shall
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main points of the bastion and
" Alt. 9. The present *Cs of the octroi of the
city of Paris cannot be limits
but by si tue of a
special law.
aw.
19. An account shall be rendered av,,ry year
to the Chambers of the execution of the works ordered
byhaving been discussed, deliberated
the
The presentpiesen ltaw.
law,.
upon, and adopted by the Chamber of Peers, and by
that of the Deputies, and sanctioned by us this day,
will be executed as a law of the State.
" We command our courts and tribunais,prefeets ad
ministrative bodies, and all others, to keep and Main
tain these presents, and that they cause them to be kept,
observed, and maintained ; and, in order to render them
more notorious for all, that they cause them to he pub.
fished and enregistered everywhere that is required ;
and, in order that it may be a firm and stable act for
et er, we have affixed our seal thereto.
" Done at the Palace of the Tuileries on the 3d day
of the month of April, 1841.
" Louis PHILIPPE."

" By the King.
" The President of the Council, Minister Secre-
tary of State of War, Marshal Duke of
Dalmatia.

" Scen and sealed with the Great Seal.
" The Keeper of the Seals of France, Minister
Secretary of State for the Department of
Justice and Public Worship, N. Martin (du
Nord)."

The owner of an ambulating menagerie lately
calculated that if all the ferocious animals which are now.
confined in Europe were let loose in au immense forest, it
would contain 225 lions, 289 tigers, 302 leopards, 270
panthers, 67 elephants, 10 rhinoceroses, 2,700 wolves, 78
rattle-snakes, 216 boa constrictars, 1,040 hytenas, and 96
crocodiles.
Charles Barry Baldwin, Esq., M.P. for Totnes,
left town yesterday for. Tours, from whence he will return
to his dutios in Pirliinient after thn recess.