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TITLE I.

OPENING OF TUB SESSION.
Art. 1. The two Chambers are convoked by a
Preclarnation, which fixes the day of the opening of
fhe Sessiou.
All the Deputies are bound to attend.
Tile Peers are summoned by sealed letters from
the King, countersigned,by the Chancellor.
The Deputies of Departments are convoked by
ealed letters from the King, addressed to each, and
countersigned by the Minister of the Interior.
2. On the day of opening the Session, the Peen
and Deputies assemble•in the same hall.
3. A deputation of 12'reds and 25 Deputies prol
ceed-to receive the King at the foot of the grand
staircase, and conduct him to the steps of the throne.
4. The King seated and covered orders the Peers
to be seated, and the Deputies wait till the King
grant thrill the same permission by the mouth of his
Chancellor,
5. All are uncovered in the presence of the King.
6. When the King has done speaking, the Chan-
cellor takes his orders, and announces that the session
is opened.

TITLE 11.

Op ZING'S PROCLAMATIONS CONVEYED TO THE TWO

CHAMBERS.

Art. 1, The King's proclamations are conveyed
to the two Chambers by Commissioners.
2. The Proclamations are handed by the Commis.
sir:ners to the President, who causes them to be read,
all bEiness ceasing.
3. The Chamber separates immedia:ply, if the
Proclamation order the closing of the sessiel, the ad-
journment or dissolution of the Chamber.

law, signed by the IVng, tounterAigned by a Mini•
ster, and liddressed to the Chamber to which it is

sent.
3. The Chambers assign no reasons either for their
acceptance or rejection. They say merely; the Charnier,
has adotaed, or the (Amber has not adoptd.
4. Tile law not adopted does not give occasion to
any message, nor to any mention of it, on the regi-
sters of the Chamber.
5. The Chamber which adopts the proposition of
a law,• causes a minute of the same, drawn up and
signed by its President and Secretaries, to be depo-
sited in its archiv:s ; and addresses to the King a
copy of the same, which is carried to him by the
President and Secretaries.
6. When one Chamber prays the King to propose
a law, it communicates information ot the same to
the other Chamber, and if the request is in like man-
ner adopted, it addresses a message to the Kir.g
through the medium of its President and Secretaries.
TITLE IV.

Or TILE SANCTION AND PUBLICATION OF LAWS. -
Art. 1. The King refuses his sanction by this for-
mula : Le Roi lavitera ; and it he does not adopt the
propositions or requests made to him, he says Le Roi
veui en deliberer.
2. This is notified to the Chamber of Peers by the
Chancellor ; and to that of Deputies, by a letter from
the Ministers addressed to the President.
3. -The King sanctions the law which he has pro-
posed, by causing it to be inscribed in the minute, that
the said law, having been Arcutred, considered, and
adopted, by the two Chambers, shall be published and
registered, in order to its-being executed as a law of
the State.
4. 'the laws proposed by the King, on the requests
of the two Chambers, are published and sanctioned
in the same form as those proposed from his own pro-
per motion.
TITLE V.

COMMUNICATIONS OF THE CHAMBERS WITH THE RING,
AND WITH EACH OTHER.
Art. 1. The King communicates with the Chamber
of Peers ; and that Chamber with the King, by the
Chancellor,_ and in his absence by the Vice-president.
2. The King communicates with the Chamber of
Deputies by his Ministers, and the Chamber with the
King, by its President or Vice-presidents.
3. The Chambers communicate together airough
their Presidents, whose letters are carried bylmessen-
gers of state, preceded by two usheri. • -
4. These messengers are introduced into the Chith:'
her by the Ushers, and after placing their letters in
the hands of the Secretaries, sslio hand tiumt to the
President, they retire .with the Same •
5. The Chambers can never form ettt/itiii..4 Every
deliberation in which a member of abodia -CleeMber.
shall have taken a share is null end-Toid.
T 1 rLE VI.
OF ADDRUSiES. _ • .-- •
Art. 1. The Addresses made to the wing, bribe
Chambers, must be discussed and considered ,in they
forms prescribed for projets of laws..
2. These Addresses are conveyed to the
either by a grand or simple- deputatietio 'si it 'shall
please the King. •
3. The simple Deputation consist:of the President
and two Secretaries. • Twenty-five Members of the"
Chamber, including the- President and Secretaries,
.orm the grand deputation.
4. No Chamber can, in any case, issue Addresses
to the People.

TITLE VII. -
GENERAL ARRANGEMENTS.
Art. 1. Neither the Chamber of Peers nor that of
Deputies ever appears, as a body, out of the place of
their sittings.
2. They send deputations only to the King; and
with his express permission they may send deputa-
tions to the Princes and Princesses of the Royal Fa-
mily, when thereto authorized by the King.
J. Tile dress of ceremony of the Peers and of the
Deputies, shall be regulated by a particular arrange.
mcnt.

Tile present form of regulation having been dis.
cussed, considered, and adopted. in the two Cham-
bers, shall be published and registered, in order to its
being executed as a law of the State.
Given at Paris, in the Palace of the Thuilleries,
August 13, 1814. (Signed) Louis.
(By the King.) Abbe de MONTFFQUIOU.
M. DESAULX, in the name of the Committee of Pe-
titions, announced, that some widows of military Of-
ficers, Members of the Legion of Hon ur, had peti-
tioned in favour of their daughters, against the sup-
pression of several establishments into which they
had been admitted. He enumerated several De-
crees of the late Government, ard•_tring the establish-
ment of houses of education for the daughters of
Members of the Legion of Honour, at the experse of
the funds of the Legion. By a decree of the 29th of
March, 1809, 600 young ladies, daughters, sisters,
nieces, or cousins.german of Members of the Legion,
were to be educated in two imperial houses, 30d at.
Ecouen, and 300 at St. Denis. Another deeree of
•
the 15th of July, 101.0, appointed six other houses,
for the reception solely of orphan daughters of Mem:
, bers of the Legion. On the 19th of July, three oL
theie houies %%ere established, and had (100 pupils. •',
The King's ordinance of that date united the honse
of Ecouen to that of St. Denis, and besides appointed
that the number of pupils should never exceed 4.V,
It suppressed the establishments formed at Paris,
Barbeaux, and Loges, for the education of orphan
daughters of Members of the Legion. He ascribed
the measures adopted by his Majesty to motives ok,
prudential economy : and in regard to the suppres-
uion of the houses at Paris, Barbeaux, and Loges,
his Majesty had granted an annual pension of 20
francs to each of the pupils till they reached the age
of 18. He concluded with proposing a resolution,
that there was no ground for taking the petitions into,
consideration.
M. Lerevne said, the King was not sufficiently
informed on the subject. Why were infants of from
six to eight years old to be thrown upon the twos?
The nation owed to their parents every mark of gra-
titude. Ile was assured that the expenses of the sup-
pressed houses were by no means considerable, and
that 40,000 Irmo, in addition to the 250 francs
allotted by his Majesty, would be sufficient for their
maintenance.
M. Mittman) enforced the sentiments of the pre.
ceding speaker. Doubtless it was the late Govern-
ment'which established the suppressed houses, but
they were asylums into which the daughters of out
brave soldiers were admitted. lie moved au address