The Sun.
London, England, 1859-06-17 00:00:00

ORGANISATION OF LOMBARDY.

The following is the decree for the provisional
organisation of Lombardy :
We, Victor Emmanuel 11., King of Sardinia,
Cyprus, and Jerusalem, &c., in virtue of the extra-
ordinary powers conferred upon us by the law of
the 25th of April, a.c., on the proposal of our
Council of Ministers, have decreed and decree as
follows :

1. A Governor will be named by us for the tem-
porary government of the provinces of Lombardy.
2. The Governor will administer the provinces
of Lombardy in the name of the King.
He is invested with full powers, save the excep-
tions and limitations which will be determined by
special provisos by our Government, and which
will be published in the official journals of the
kingdom.
In all that regards war and military admini-
stration the Governor has to limit his activity to
procuring the prompt execution of the orders of
the Minister of War and the commanders of the
allied armies.

In all other affairs which will be beyond the
reach of the powers of the Governor he will directly
correspond with our Ministry.
3. All authorities in the Lombard provinces are
placed under the Governor.
4. All affairs which under the late Austrian
Government were directed by the Governor-General
of the Lombard-Venetian kingdom, to the Central
Administrations, and the Ministry of the late
Government, will now be directed to the Governor
of Lombardy.
5. The Governor can name special commissioners,
elected among the employes and the citizens con-
spicuous by their intelligence, probity, and devo-
tion to the national cause, in order to consult them
in the most important political and economical
affairs of Lombardy.
6. All non-Italian functionaries are removed.
7. The Lieutenancy of Lombardy and the Coun-
cil of the Lieutenancy have ceased to exist. The
services of the Councillors are dispensed with, and
remain at the disposition of the Governor, saving
the provisions of art. 6.
8. The employes belonging to the Central Admi-
nistrations of Lombardy will be divided in the
following sections :-
1. Political administration, from which will de-
pend the intendenze-yenerali of the provinces, the
commissioners of the districts, and the officers of
public security ;
2. The commonalties, the corporations, and the
institutions of charity ;
3. Commerce, agriculture, and public works ;

4. Public instruction and religion (cu/to);
5. Administration of justice.
The Governor will determine the rank and corn.
petency of each section, and will regulate their acti.
yity.

J. The Prefettura of the Finances of Lombardy
remains in its present organization and competency.
The head of this department is on the same footing
as the directors of the other administrative sections.

10. With the Governor will be a general secre-
tary, who, at the order of the Governor, can sign
the correspondence and the orders respecting cur-
rent affairs.
11. The Governor can likewise authorise the
directors of the sections to despatch the less impor-
tant current affairs and to sign them.
12. The affairs of doubtful administrative compe-
tency, considered in the 46th section, letters
ABC D of the ordinance of the 30th of March,
1851, issued by the Austrian Government on the
organisation of the, Lieutenancy, will be submitted
to a council composed of the directors of the sec-
tions of the Central Administration. For the deli-
berations in such affairs the special procedure pre-
scribed by the above cited ordinances are preserved.
13. All the other dispositions of procedure and
ordinary practice prescribed to the late Lieutenancy
remain, in as far as they are not contrary to the
present law.
14. The secretaries and other employes of the
lath Lieutenancy are maintained in their respective
qualities, and will be distributed in the different
sections of the Central Administration of Lombardy,
except those among them who come
ounder the
provisions of article 6 of the present decree.
15. The direction of the contabilita (controlling
of State expenses) and the giunta of the census are
maintained, and will exercise their functions under
the immediate superintendence of the Governor.
In all cases in which the same had to apply to the
Ministries and Central Departments of the late
Austrian Government they will have to apply now
to the Governor.

16. Nothing is changed as regards public works
and the general direction of the administrative and
political archives.
17. The provincial delegazioni are abolished ; the
provincial delegates and directors will cease imme-
diately to exercise their functions, and remain at
the ,disposal of the Governor, save in the cases
coming under article 6.
18. In every province there will be an inten-
denza-yenerale ; the intendente-generale will be
nominated by the King.
19. The Intendente-Generale will, besides the
attributes of the late delegates, have the political
direction of the province ; he will issue passports
and passes, and under him will be the questori in
the provinces and districts ; he will exercise the
superintendence over all the public offices in the
provinces.
20. At the Intendenza- Generale the same dis-
tribution of offices is kept up as existed under the
the
late delegazioni. The vice-delegates will h
title of vice-intendenti, and the commissarztaevfe the
delegazioni that of aggiunti.
carry with them the same rank and class as hereto-
fore. In case of absence the Inten ie offices will
ennttee-Generale
will be represented by the vice-intend
21. All the other employes of the latee delegazioni
will keep their rank, except where article 6 has to
be applied.
22. The commissariats of districts keep all their
attributes, except those concerning public security.
23. All commissaries cease immediately their
functions, and remain at the disposal of the Go-
vernor, save in cases coming under article 6.
24. In place of the deposed commissaries the
Governor will name others from among person:
well versed in administrative matters, and among
the representatives of the commonalties in their
respective districts. Until these new employes are
chosen their functions will be exercised by the
aggiunti, or those who perform the functions of the
latter.
25. The other enVoyes in the commissariati

retain their places, except in the cases coming
under article 6.

26. The general direction of police is abolished,
the Director-General, the Councillors, and the
superior commissaries of police attached to the
General Police-office cease to exercise their
functions.

27. The superior police offices in the provinces
are likewise abolished, and the superior commis-
saries of police in the provinces cease to exercise
their functions.

28. In every province there will be established a
questura of public security, for which a questore
will be named by the head of that office.
29. The provincial questori of public security
will depend from the Intendente-Generale.

30. 'the present circondarii of police in the cities
will take the title of eircondarii of public security;
they will keep their present districts, and will de-
pend from the questori of the towns, who on their
part will be under the questori of the province.
31. The inferior employes of the late general di-
rection of police, as well as those of the provincial
directions of police, will retain their places, always
saving the proviso of article 6.
32. The functions hitherto exercised by the com-
missaries in the districts as far as regards public
tranquillity will be henceforth exercised by the
questori of the districts and the magistrates of the
commonalties.

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33. The questori in the districts will exercise their
office within the circuit of one or more preture, and
will depend from the questore of the province. They
will be established by the Intendente-Generale in
all places where he thinks it necessary, and they
will in preference reside in the commonalty which

is the seat of the pretura.
34. At the demand of the communal deputations,
and especially at the request of the political depu-
tati charged with the maintenance of order and
security, the questori of the districts will have to
give assistance in all cases which come within the
range of their functions and concern public tran-
quillity.
35. The Intendenti-Generali will assign to the
questori of the districts such employes as they think
necessary for the public service.
36. The Royal Carabineers will be the armed
force for the maintenance of public security, and
they will be subject to the laws and regulations
which concern them.

3'L All the public offices now existing in the pro-
vinces of Lombardy, and not suppressed or changed
by the present law, remain in vigour, and the em-
ployes in them are maintained, save those coming
under article 6.

38. The Governor can remove every employe
whose nomination is not expressly reserved to the
Government of the King, or can change their office
and destination, even if they belong to the number
of those mentioned in articles 14, 21, 25, 31, and 37.
39. All the codes, civil and criminal, of finance
and commerce, the laws of procedure, and, in gene-
ral, all laws and patents, decrees and regulations,
ordinances and notifications, regarding any branch
of public administration which have been hitherto
in vigour, are maintained in so far as they are not
contrary to the present law, and excepting the
changes which will be necessary in consequence of
the change of the Government.
40. All changes in the laws which may be thought
necessary will be published in the mode prescribed
by the existing laws, and will have force the day
after their publication.
There will be a law published in the Lombard
provinces relative to the form of the said publica-
tion.

We order that this present decree, sealed with
our State seal, :shall be inserted in the archives of
the State, and that every one whom it concerns
respect it and make it respected.
Given in Milan, June 8, 1859.
VITTORIO EMMANUELE.
C. CAVOUR.