The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-11-27 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.

COMMISSARIAT.GENERALt Or POLICE.

ORDINVICE CONCERNING PASSPORTS, 11•41'ILLEIVE,
UOTELALEEPERS, LODGING.HOGSR-KEEPEREI ae.&C.
AND THE LANDING FILOM TILSNCII AND IOKITOSI
•ESSELS.
6..piember SS. VOL
'Having considered the Decrees oithe ,22d-Nivose,
23d Fructldor, year 13, and the 18th lept.. 1807,
the instructions of his Excelleaky tits *aster et
Geneva, Police of dor 14spie ofslse 7t7)* #Zeareys
1806, 15th Deceaber, 1807, aid •` F ry,
1808, the Ordinance of Police of the Iltli Februa-
ry, 1805, 22d March aml 26th Octobery'lBoB, and
j the Letter of his Etceltency of the 24th of ANNA
last, concerning the uniform passports to be fo.-
nished to all travellers, the formalities of their ar-
rival, stay, and' departure, which ought to be gone
through at the Commissariat-General of Police, sa
well by travellers as hotel-keepers, lodging-house-
keepers, &c. the searching of French or foreign titer.
chant vessels, privateers, and flags of truce, sod
the measures of order and general safety of which the
superintendauce and execution are confided to tho
high police.
The Commissary General of Police orders,
Ant. 1. Every individual coming from the Interior
and entering the district of the Commissariat-General
of Police, which comprises part of the Departments
of la Gironde and la Charesti-Inferieure, must be
Ifurnished with a uniform passpOrt, such us is pre-
( scribed by the Docree of the 18th Sept. 1807. He
shall be bound to present it within 21 hours of his
larrival to the Commissary-General of Police, if ha
takes up his lodging in the City of linurdeaux, or to
the Mayor of the Commune of the district to which
he directs his course.
Every traveller the bearer of a passport other than
the form above pointed out, shall be detained until-
, the dtrision of his Excellency the Minister of Gen.
ern! Police.

2. The Mayers of rural Communes, the Commis-
saries of Police at Bourdeaux, and the Gendarmerie,
shall examine with thcarealest care the passports of
travellers.
They shall regard as false all those which shall be
on paper other than that prescribed, by whatever
authority they may appear to be signed. The
bearers of these passports shall be conducted before
the Commissary-General, who shall adopt with
respect to them the measures ordered by his &eel-
'3. The masters of post-horses, the proprietors, die
ietc
rectors,lY conductors of public carriages and transport .
vessels, &c. shall not furnish horses to nor receive
in tile said carriage or vessels, persons not fur...
niched with an uniform passport, on pain of
being arrested, and placed at the disposal of his Ex-
cellency. To fulfil this duty they shall exact either
on inscribing the deinauil for a place, or at the
imo-
ment of the departure of horses, carriages, vessels,
l &c. the presentation of the regular passport.
They shall also he bound to transmit every day to
the Commissariat-General of Police a list of all tra.
yellers departing or arriving by their horses,
car-
•
• mixes, &c.
The Mayor of the rural Communes, the Commis-
! series of Police, seconds of the Gendarmerie, and
! the prcposcs ad hoc of the Cominissariat-Geueral of
Police, shall take care to attend at the hours of the
I departure of the said carri iges, &c. to ascertain
I whether the in.'ividuals found there are furnished
1
with the necessary authority for travelling.
They shall prc-,,it (11,- departure, or the'continut.
lion of the route of aiii t. .seller who shall not have
the prescribed passport, at, ..'.ey shall cause them to
be conducted before the Co • aissary-General of
Police, to be dealt with in this res, _rt.
This regulation is applicable to all travellers de-
parting from Bourdeaux, by land or sea, and whose
passports shall not have had the sanction of the
Commissary-General of Police. They also shall be
conducted before him to go through this essential
1 formality.
j Soldiers or seamen on furlough shall not reside at
Bourdeaux, unless their furloughs are sanctioned by
the Commissary-General of Police (Article 6 of the
Decree of the '23d Fructidor, yeti. 13).
4. It is formally prohibited to all hotel-keepers*
inn-keepers, lodging-house-keepers, and others, to
lodge or receive any person who shall not be fur—
nishod with a regular passport, or to give a recep-
tion by day or night, under any pretext, to any de.
serter, vagabond,- or person unknown. They are
bound to declare forth'with to the Commissary-tie.
neral of Police, or to the Commissary of the district
the individuals abate designated.
This regulation equally applies to the domiciles of
this City, and to the Mayoralties in the district of
the Commissariat-General, where travellers shall be
received under the title, of relations and friends.
HoteNkeepers,inn-keepersolodginchoase-keepere,
and others, shall be bound on making the declare.
tion above directed, to present for the examination
of the Commissary-General of Police the passports
of travellers referred to, under the penalties exacted
by the law of the 22d July, 1791.
There shill'be made in these public esteblishments
freqwet searches, as well to ebsere the execution of
the regulatioua of 4he present' *Ade, as for the
discovery end arrest of deserters from the army or
uavy, prisoners df war endeavouring to escape, va.