The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-02-21 00:00:00

FRENCH P.IP HRS.

We !hit day present our reader," with the projert of
the new Elertion Law, it hying tol lung fur our l'apvr
of Saturday.

TITLE OE DEPUTIES TO 111 E ELECTED DT THE

IMICETORAL COLLEIMI.
Article I. The Chamber of Deptitie% shall he composed
of four Impaired and thirty llroJhcr•.
2. Two hundred and titty-eight Deputies Iw• chosen by
the College% of the F:lectoral Districts (arrondisrentesoi)
and one Il7ndrrll and sryetitv-tno by the College% of De-
partments, conformably to the table annexed to the pre-
sent law.

3. The Departments shall b divided into Electoral
Circular Districts (arrontlisaemeos.) Each Electorel
District shall have a Collette composed of members.
who have their political domicil within the humid:tries
ado. district. . .

4. 'flue Derartmental Colleges shall be composed of
six hoodreol Electors at most, and of one hundred at
least, too hr named by the Colleges of the Districts.
5. To form a Departmental College, earls elector of a
District I.llllege shall choose from the list of the Electors
of the Department, pacing lOW francs iu direct taxes,
ass equal nosioolwr of Electors.
6. When the list of Electors paying 111011 francs in Ili-
reel taxes shall not exceed at least one quarter of the
whole numher of the members of the Departmental 1'4,1-
lege, this list shall lie augmented its this proport. , by
introducing into the Electors paying cost in
taxes, an eopaal number to be taLen from earls Electoral
District.

7 If the number of the members of the Departmental
College, or of thole Aleinhers paying most in direct
taxes introduced into NIA College, cannot lw exactly
divided a 44444 the Electoral Districts, the fractional
hers shall he given to the mast popoilonsilistriet.
tn When an Elector shall be named to the Depart-
mental College by several District Colleges, his election
shall be considered as lwlonging to that District College
in whirl, be shall have obtained most votes. The num-
ber of the Members of the Departmental College assign-
Psi to the utlwr Colleges, who may•itaveneheient‘thrvame
Election, shall be completed for each College, hl/4. taking
Purressively the Electors who shall have übtateed the
greatest number of votes.
9. Consequently, the list of the Departmental College
shall hr drawn up, in rompliance with the proces-ver-
hanx of the District Colleges, by a Committee composed
of the President, or of the Secretary of each of those
Departmental Colleges, under the *Presidency of the
Prefect.
It/. The Departmental College %hall he rrnpweii every
time that the Depotisient shall be required to appitibt
integrally its Deputies.
11. I o Departtuents where the number of Electors shall
not exceed one hundred and fifty, there shall he but one
College, which shall proceed directly to the election of all
the Depitties annigliell to curls Department.

TITLE 11.-HROCILATIODS 'EXPECTING THZ QUOTAS OF
TUE ►LECTOEX. AND OF THE PERRON" TO IX ELECTED.

12. The half, at least. of the sumo (rued for the entitling
an inhabitant either to Iretoine eligible, or to heroine an
Elector, shall he paid in land tiara. In the suno «eyes-
vary fur this purpose, neither the centimes paid fur the
sole advantage of the Departments, nor the centimes
paid towards the ow of theCousutane. are to be iucluoled.
13. The land taxes shall be ronsilltrod as such,
which shall hate keen paid bt• the proprietor or nsnfror-
tnary toretopant, notwithstanding all agreements to the
contrary made with the tenants or farmers.
14. 't'hr taxes paid by a widow dull be accounted to
whichsoever of her Milll4 she shall appoint. • -
15. The elector or the eligible 44 he tried. for thee
current year. The mutoutti shall be verified and paid as