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SENATUS CONSULTUAL

NAPOLEON Btc.—The Senate, after having heard
the Orators Of the Council of State, has decreed, and
we ordain as follows :
EXTRACT FROM THE REGISTERS OF THE CONSERVATISM
SENATE, FRIDAY, STH FEB.

The Conservative Senate, assembled to the num-
ber of Members prescribed, Art. 90, of the Act of
the Constitution of the 13th December, 1799, having
seen the projet of the organic Solemn Coasultum, draws
up in the form prescribed by Art. 57. of the Act of
Constitution of the 4th of August, 1812.
After having heard on the motives of the said pro•
jet,-the orators of the Council of State, and the report
of the Special Commission appointed in the Sitting
of the 2d of this month, the adoption having beers
deliberated, and the number of voices prescribed by
Art. 56, of the Act of Constitution of the 4th August,
1802, decrees
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TITLE I.
OP THE REGENCY.

Art. I. The case occurring in which the Emperor a•cende ties
Throne, a minor, without his father having disposed of the Re.
gency of the Empire, the Empress Mother unites of right to the
guardianship of her son the Regency of the Empire.
2. The Empress Regent cannot marry a second time.
S. In case of the failure of the Empress, the Regency, if tiro
Emperor has not otherwise disposed of it, appertains to diefiret
Prince of the Blond, and in default of him, to one of the Gan
French Princes in the order of succession to the Crown.

4. Should there not be any Prince of the Blood capable an.
aching the Regency, it paws of right to the kit of the Prioceo

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' Brand Digintar., to functiow, at the moment qf
the Pecree of the Emperor, to one in default of the other, In the
following order, tit.:—:The first, the Arch-Chancellor of tbe
Empire ; the second, the Arch-Chancellor of State.; the third,
the Grand Elector; the fourth, the Constable; the fifth, the
,Arch-Treasurer; the sixth, the Grand AdmiraL

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b. A French Prince, seated on • foreign royal throne, at the
mument of the Emperor's decease is incapable of exercising the
Regency.

6. The Emperor not appointing Mice-Grand Dignitaries ex-
cept whim the titulars are called to foreign thrcnes, the Vice-
Grand Dignitaries exercise the rights of 'the titulars, whose places
they supply even in what regards the entrance into the Cooncil
of Regency.
7. The titular Princes of the Grand Dignitaries of the Empire,

who, according to Art. 51 of the Act of the Constitution, of 18th
M.sy, 184,4, were deprived of the exercise of their functions at
the moment of the decease of the Emperor, cannot resume their
functions till they are recalled by the Regent.
8. To be capable of exercising the Regency, and to enter Into

the Covncil of Regency, a French Prince must be of the age of
tvrenty.one-years complete. All the acts 9f the Regency are in

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Mikan, the seat 04aers et the4aspiriaad dui Caewa, the
Meister of State, and the Grand Eagles of the-Lesion of Ho-1
now', In the presence of the Senate and of the Couosil of Seats.
84. The oath to be then by the Empress is conceived its these.
tents s
"I swear fidelity to the Emperor : I swear to conform myself
to the acts of the Constitution, and to observe thedispositions
made by the Emperor, my consort, for the ezercise of the Re-
gency, not to consult in employing my authority aught else than
my love arid devotion for my son, and for France ; and faithfully
to return to the Emperor, on his coming of age, the powers con-
fided to me. I swear to maintain the integrity of the territory of
the Empire, to respect and cause to be respected the laws of the
Concordat, and the liberty of religious worship; to respect, and
cause to be respected, equality of rights, civil liberty, and the ir-
revocability of the sales of the national //has; nor to rage any
imposts, nor to establish any tax, but for the we of the State,
and according to the fundamental laws of the monarchy; to
maintain the institution of the Legion of Honour; and to govern
with the sole view of the interest, welfare, and glory of the
French people.'

the name of the minor Emperor.
TITLE 11. •
OF THE MANNER IN WHICH THE EMPEROR DISPOSES
OF THE REGENCY.
10. The Emperor disposes of the Regency, either by an act of
his will, according to the forms established by the Statute of the
Seth of March, 1806, or by letters patent.
TITLE M.
Op THE EXTENT OF THE POWER OF, THE REGENCY,
AND OF ITS DURATION.
11. Until the majority of the Emperor, the Empress Regent,
or the Prince Regent, exercise for the minor Emperor all the
igenltude of the Imperial Power.
n. Their functions commence at the moment of the tlecease
of the Emperor.
IS. The Empress Regent appoints to the Grand Dignitaries
and Great Officers of the Empire and pf the Crown, which are
Or become vacant during the Regency.
14, The Empress Regent or Regent appoint or &min all the
Ministers without exception, and may raise Citizens to the rank
of Senators, conformably to Art. 57, of the Act of the Constitu.
don of the 18th of May, 18Q4.
15. If the minor Emperor dies, leaving a brother heir to the
Throne, the Regency of the Empress or of the Prince Regent
• *ontinues without any new formality.
)6. The Regency of the Empress ceases if the order of inhe-
ritance calls to the Throne a Prince who is not her son :--it is
provided in this case for the exercise of the Regency, conform-
ably to Art. IV.
17. If the minor Emperor dies, leaving the Crown to a minor
Emperor of another branch, the Prince Regent shall retain the
exercise of the Regency till the majority of the new Emperor.
18. The French Prince, or the Prince Grand Dignitary who
exercises the Regency from defect of age or other impediment in
- the Prince called before him to the Regency by else Constitution'
retains the Regency to the majority of the Emperor.
The French Irince who is prevented by any cause whatever
from exercising the Regency at the moment of the Emperor's
decease, cannot, that impediment ceasing, take on him the exer-
e.sbe of the Regency.
TITLE IV.
OF THE COUNCIL OF REGENCY.
SECTION I. •
OF THE FORMATION OF THE COUNCIL OF REGENCY.
19. The Council of the Regency is composed of the first
Prince of the blood, of the Princes of the blood, uncles of the
Emperor, of the Priv:es, Grand Dignitaries of the Empire.
20. If there is no Prince uncle to the Emperor, the nearest
kinsman of the Emperor, in the order of succession, have en-
-11 trance to the Council of Regency.
21. The Emperor, either by letters or by will, adds to the
Council of Regency the names of such Members as he judges
proper.
22. None of the Members of the Council of Regency can be
removed from his functions by the Empress Aegent, or the
Regent.
25. The Empress Regent, or the Regent, preside in the Coun-
cil of Regency, or delegate to preside in their place one of the
French Princes, or one of the Princes Grand Dignitaries.
SECTION
OF THE DELIBERATIONS OF THE COUNCIL OF
REGENCY.
!4. The Council of Regency deliberates necessarily by the
absolute majority of voices.
. 3. On the marriage of the Emperor.
Ou the declar...tion of war, and on the signing of treaties
• ,I of alliance. And, _
3. On every elitnation or disposition to form new dotations
Of Immoveable property, composing the extraordinary domain of
jthe Crown.
4. On the question whether the Regent nominates to one or
more of the grand dignities of the Empire, vacant during the
minority.
• , 25. The Council of Regency exercises the functions of the
Privy Council, as well as in matters of grace and favour, as in
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the drawing up Senatus Conialum.
tn. In case of disagreement, the voice of the Empress or of
the Regent gives the preponderance.
' If the Presidency is exercised by delegation, the Empress Re-
gent, or the Regent decide.
27. O. all other affairs referred to its examination, the Coun-
dl of Regency has only a consultative voice.
28. '1 he Mici.ter, Secretary of State, holds the pen at the
ttiue; of the Council of Regency, and (haws up the pro:ess
erbal of It.. deliberation,.
TITLE V.
OF TILE GUARD OF THE NIINoR EMPEKOR.
29. The guard of the minor Emperor, the superintendence of
. is household, and the care of his education, are confided to his
...the:.
30. In default of a Mrither, or of a Prince desishated by the
ceic,eil Emperor, the case of the Emprer is confided by the
ouncil of Regency to one of the Princes titulated use Grand
dignities of the Empire.
31. "I tes ct oic: shall he made by a .!erlifiry, and carried by
..,soiute in.jority of voices, is case of being equal, the Regent
j hall decide.
TITLE VI.
TI'E OATH TO BE TAKEN BY THE. EMPRP.eS REGENT,
• AND THAT OF PRINCE REGEN f, FOR THE EXERCISE
, (F THE REGENCY.
SECTION I.
OF TILE EMPRESS REGENT'S OATH.
32. if the Empress Regent has not taken the (lath during the
' toper- t's lice tirce for the exercise of the Regency, she shaU
ake it wrtWn three months next following th- Emperor's decease.
83. '1 he eath shmi be taken by the minor mperor, seated on
•Is throne, assieted by the Prince Arch-Chancellor of t.:e Ent-
ire the French Princes, the Council of Regency, the Cabinet