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SECTION 1.

This Council shall be composed of the first Prince of the blood,
the uncles and two of the nearest relations of the Emperor, ac-
cording to order of birth, together with the Prince,' Grand Dig-
.thcaries, at which the Empress or Regent shall preside, and to
which the Emperor may add such number of members as they
Way judge convenient.

SECTION IL
DELIBERATIONS OF THE COUNCIL.

To datum a consort for the Emperor, declare war, sign trea.
des of peace, of alliance, of commerce, such are the terminations
on which the Council of Regency necessarily have to deliberate.
The projected dispositions of the extraordinary domains, and the
necessity of placing the Princes Grand Dignitaries, previous to
the majority of the Emperor, in case of there being a Regent, is
likewise submitted to them.

Being schly consulted in all other affairs, the Council of
Regency will always give light Into matters, and will never pre-
sent obstacles to the Authority charged with the Government of
the Empire. _

TITLE V.
OF THE Guinn OF THE MINOR EMPEROR.

The Royal Infant which belongs to a great nation, like the
child belonging only to a private family, can never repose with
greater security than in the arms of its mother. It is therefore
to the mother of the Emperor that the superintendance of his
house, the charge of Lis education, and in short the guard of his
person is confined.

The Emperor has not even imagined that any one could sup-
pose a necessity of ever derogating from this sacred rule, ant
that it must only be in default of a mother that the person of the
minor Emperor is confided by the Emperor previous to his de-
cease ; or, after his death, by the Council of Regency, to one of
the Princes Grand Dignitaries of the Empire.

TITLE VI.
OF THE OATH TO BE TAKEN FOR EXERCISING THE
REGENCY.

The Constitution has determined that the Emperor, at his ac-
cession, should take an oath, which should be equally exacted for
the exercise of the Regency, and contain special regulations rela-
tive to the temporary power attributed to the Regency.
The expression of these obligations should not be entirely the
same for the Empress Regent, as for the Regent. The difference
is establisled in Sections 1 and 2 of Title VI. in the first part of
the oath.

The 2d, which is in common both to the Empress and to the
Regent, is nothing more than the same oath which the Emperor
himself takes on his ascending the throne.

TITLE VII.
OP THE ADMINISTRATION OF DOMAINS.

The titles of the Senatus Consulturn which have just been am-
Used, relates to the Government of the Empire, and the charge
of the minor Emperor.

The 7th relates to the administration of the three species of
domains possessed by the Emperor, and to the manner in which'
their revenues are to be employed.

With regard to the administration, the minority makes no
alteration in it; the rules rtabiblio4 ate lobe observed concern•

The Ist and 2d Sections of Title VIII. provide for it by pro.
rogation of the Ministers powers, by forming a Council presided
by the first in ra:ik of the Grand DigMtarics. Finally, to omit
nothing. Section 24 gives the means of resolving ill a Privy
Council, by the drawit,g up and proposing a Senatus Consuitnms
all the unforeseen difficulties which may attend extraordinary
conjunctures, and by the variety of which thought has not been
able to extend itself.
Here finishes, Gentlemen, what relates to the Regency, and
presents an order of ideas relating to, without being entirely der
pendent on it. _