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London, England, 1830-08-13 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENes.

CONSTITUTIONAL CHARTER OF THE YEAR 1830,
SWORN 1W LOUIS PHILIP D'ORLEANS.
DECLARATION OF THE CHAMBER OP DEPUTIES.
The Chamber of Deputies. taking into consideration the imperi.
ous necessity which in the result of the 20th, 27th, 28th, and 29th
of July, and the following days; and of the situation in which
Fiance is at this moment placed, in consequence of this violation of
the Constitutional Charter.-Considering, however, that by this viola.
lien, and the heroic resistance of the citizens of Paris, his Majesty
King Charles X. his Royal Highness Louis Antoine, his son, and
the senior members of the Royal House, are leaving the kingdom of
France, declares that the Throne is vacant defseio et de jury, and
that there is an absolute necessity of providing for it.
The Chamber of Deputies declare, Idly, that according to the
wish and for the interest of the people of France, the preamble
of the Constitutional Charter is omitted, as wounding the national
dignity in appearing to grant to them rights which essentially be
long to them ; and that the following Articles of the same Charter
ought to be suppressed or modified in the following manner t
Article I. Frenchmen are to be equal before the law, whatever may
be their titles or their ranks.
Article 2. They are to contribute in proportion to their fortunes
to the charges of the State.
Article 3. They are all to be equally admissible to Civil and MI.
litany employments.
Article 4. Their individual liberty is hereby equally guaranteed.
No person can be either prosecuted or arrested, except in cases pro.
scribed by theraw.
Ankle 6. Each one ma profess his religion with equal liberty,
and shall obtain for his religious worship the same protection.
Article 6. The Ministers !of the Catholic, Apostolic, and Roman
Religion, professed by the Majority of the French,and those of other
Christian worship, receive stipends from the Public Treasury.
Article 7. Frenchmen have the right of publishing and printing
their opinions, provided they conform themselves to the laws. The
Censorship can never be re-established.
Article 8. All property, without exception, is to be inviolable ;
of that which is called national, the law makes no difference.
Article 9. The State can exact the sacrifice of property for the
good of the public, legally proved ; but an indemnity shall be first
given to those who may suffer from the change.
Article 10. AU searching into the opinions and votes given be.
fore the Restoratioon are interdicted, and the same forgetfulness is
commanded to be adopted by the Tribunals and by the citizens.
Article 11. The Conscription is abolished; the method of re-
cruiting the army for land and sea is to be determined by the law.
FORMS OF THE KING'S GOVERNMENT.
Article 12. The person of the King is inviolable and sacred; his
Ministers are responsible ; to the King alone belongs executive
power.
Article 13. The King is to be the Chief Supreme of the State; to
command the forces by sea and by land : to declare war, to make
treaties of peace and alliance of commerce; to name all those who
are employed in the public administration!, and to make all regula-
tions necessary for the execution of the laws, without having power
either to suspend the laws themselves, or dispense with their execu.
lion. Nevertheless, no Foreign Troops can ever be admitted into
the service of the State without an express law.
Article 14. The Legislative Power is to be exercised collectively
by the King, the Chamber of Peers, and the Chamber of Deputies.
Article Its The proposition of the laws is to belong to the King,
to the Chamber of Peers, and to the Chamber of Deputies. Never-
theless, all the Laws of Taxes are to be first voted by the Chamber
of Deputies.
Article 16. Every Law to be discussed, and freely voted by the
majority of each of the two Chambers.
Article 17. If a proposed law be rejected by one of the three
powers, it cannot be brought forward again in the same Session.
Article 18. The King can alone sanction and promulgate the laws.
Article 19. The civil list is to be fixed for the duration of the
reign by the legislative assembly, after the accession of the King.
OF THE CHAMBER OF PEERS.
Article 20 The Chamber of Peers is to form an essential por.
don of the legislative power.
Article 21. It is to be convoked by the Bing at the same time as
the Chamber of Deputies of the Departments. The session of one
is to begin and finish at the same time as the other.
Article 22. Any Assembly of the Chamber of Peers which should
be held at a time which is not that of the Session of the Chamber of
Deputies, is illicit, and null of full right, except the case in which
it is assembled as a Court of Justice, and then it can only exercise
judicial functions.
Article 23. The nomination of the Peers of France is the Peroga.
tive of the King. Their number is unlimited. He em vary their
dignities, and name them Peers for life, or make them hereditary
at his Assure.
Article 24. Peers can enter the Chamber at twenty-five years of
age, but have only a deliberate voice at the age of thirty years.
Article 26. The Chamber of Peers is to be presided over by the
Chancellor et France, and in his absence by a Peer named by
the King.
Article 26. The Princes of 'the Blood are to be Peers by
right of birth. They are to take their seats close by the Pre.
:damn.
Article 27. The sittings of the Chamber of Peers are to be
public, as also that of the Chamber of Deputies.
Article 28. The Chamber of Peers takes cognisance of high tree.
son, and of attempts against the surety of the State, which is to be
defined by the law.
Article 29. No Peer can be arrested, but by,the authority of the
Chamber, or judged but by it in a criminal matte.
OF THE CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES OF THE
DEPART M EN TS.
Article 30. The Chamber of Deputies will be composed of Depu-
ties elected by the Electoral Colleges, of which the organization is
to be determined by the laws.
Article 31. The Deputies are to be elected for the space of five
years.
Article 32. No Deputy can be admitted into the Chamber till he
has attained the age of forty years, and if he does not possess the
other conditions prescribed by the law.
Article 33. If, however, there should not be in the Department
fifty persons of the age specified, paving the amount of taxes fixed
by law, their number shall be completed from the who pay
the greatest amount of taxes under the amount fixed by law.
Article 34. No person can be an elector, if he is under 25 years
of age ; and if he does not possess all the other conditions deter-
mined upon by the law.
Article 36. The Presidents of the Electoral Colleges are to be
named by the electors.
Ankle 36. The half at least of the Deputies are to be deems
from those who have their political residence in the departments.
Article 37. The President of the Chamber of Deputies is to be
elected by itself at the opening of each Session.
Article 38. The Sittings of the Chambers are to be public, but
the request of five Members will be sufficient to form a Select
Committee.
Article 29. The Chamber to be divided in Secret Committees, to
discuss laws which may be presented from the King.
Article O. No tax can be established nor imposed, if it has not
been consented to by die two Chambers, and sanctioned by the King.
Article 41. The land and house tax can only be voted for one
year. The indirect taxes may be voted for many ears.
Article 42. The King is to convoke every year the two Chambers,
and he has the right to prorogue them, and to dissolve that of the
Deputies of the Departments, but in this case he must convoke a
new one within the period of three months.
Article 43. No bodily restraint can be exercised against a Mem-
ber of the Chamber during the Session, nor for six weeks which
precede or follow the Session.
Article 44. No Member of the Chamber can be, during the Ses-
sion, prosecuted or arrested in a criminal matter, except - in the
act, till after the Chamber has permitted his arrest.
Article 46. Every Petition to either of the Chambers must be
made in writing. The law interdicts its being carried in person to
the bar.
OF THE MINISTERS.
Article 46. The Ministers can be Members of the Chamber of
Peers or the Chamber of Deputies. They have, moreover, their en-
trance into either Chamber, and are entitled to be heard when they
demand it.
Article 47. The Chamber of Deputies have the right of impeach-
ing the Ministers, or of transferring them before the Chamber of
Peers, who alone can judge them.
JUDICIAL REGULATIONS.
Article 48. All justice emanates from the King; be adminis-
ters in his name by the Judges, whom he names, and whom be
institutes.
Article 49. The Judges named by the King are immoveable.
Article 60. The ordinary Courts and Tribunals existing are to
be maintained, and there is to be no change but by virtue of
a law.
Article 51. The actual institution of the Judges of Commerce
is preserved.
Article 62. The office of Justice of Peace is equolly preserved.
The Justices of Peace, though named by the King, are DIM ire.
moveable.
Article 63. No one cam be deprived of his natural judges.
Article 64. There cannot, in consequence, be extraordinary com-
missions and tribunals created, but under some tide and some demo-
mhadon.
Article 66. The debates will be public in criminal mattes, as
least when that publicity will not be dangerous to the public "en
Winsome, and in dist case the Tribunal is b to declare so by a
distinct judgment.
Ankle 66. The institution of Judos is so be preserved i the
'hangs' which a longer experience may vendee emessmy, can only be
effected by a distinct law.