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London, England, 1835-10-19 00:00:00

ROYAL DECREE.

Having taken into consideration what you have pointed
out to me relative to the necessity of reforming that part
of the legislation which is relative to the Royal Treasury,
I have decreed, &c. &c.

" Art. 1. You will propose to me three persons who are
deserving of my Royal confidence, who shall immediately
be intrusted with the inspection of all the causes now
pending in the section of the Department of General Su-
perintendence.

" 2. These three Commissioners shall be empowered to
order all causes to be suspended which are for small
amounts, or which, from circumstances, may merit this in-
dulgence ; setting at liberty all those who are in confinement
in consequence of these proceedings, upon paying a slight
fine to be fixed by the said Commissioners, the amount of
which shall be given to the officers who had seized the con-
traband goods.

" 8. A note shall be handed to this Commission of all
those who may be at present in confinement by sentence
of the Treasury Tribunals, specifying the reasons for such
imprisonment, in order that, through you, those who are
worthy of pardon may be proposed to me.
"4. The intendants and sub-delegates will transmit to
the Commission another note of the causes which are
pending, with the reasons thereof, in order that, after exa-
mination, those causes which it may be considered inexpe-
dient to follow up may be suspended.
"5. The Commission will render me an account, through
the Ministry under your direction, of the result of its
labours for my information, and for the satisfaction of the
public.

Signed by the Royal hand at the Prado, 9th October,
]835.

" To Don Juan Alvarez y Mendizabal, Secretary of State
and of the Finance Department."
"ROYAL DECREE.
" Being desirous of remedying the extremely serious
evils which fall upon the State and upon the Church by
the existence of so excessive and disproportionate a num-
ber of ecclesiastics in the greater part of the kingdom,
causing so serious injury to those ecclesiastics themselves,
as well as to the remainder of the Spaniards who bear
exclusively the public burdens from which the former
are exempt, I have resolved to decree in the name of my

August Daughter, Donna Isabella 11., after having heard
the Council of Ministers, that for the present and until,
after all needful examination of the labours of the Ecclesi-
astical Junta, it shall be determined, in accord with the
Cortes, what will be most expedient to be done with retard
to Clerical Reform ; the Very Reverend the Archbishops,
the Reverend Bishops, and other Competent Prelates, shall
absolutely abstain from issuing Dimissory Letters, and from
conferring orders (ordcnes mayores) under any title, for any
motive, or under any pretext ; although they may promote
to the Priesthood, or to Deaconries, those who, respec-
tively, may have been already ordained as deacons or sub-
deacons ; and also ordain, in sacres, those who on the pub-
lication of this decree in the Madrid Gazette may have
obtained the presentation and appointment to a curacy, or
to any benefice with cure of souls, or who may have already
made, or approved of any opposition (say process), by virue
of which the said appointments may have been given, or
were to have been given, either before or after the said
day. Signed by the Royal hand, &c.
:,,,,,/"Dated Palace of the Prado, Oct. 8, 1835."
MADRID BOURSE, OCT. 10.—Four per Cents, 41 ; Five
per Cents, 50,i ; Exchange on London, 37i.