Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1804-08-04
F r A N C E.
ORGANIC sENArUs coNsuLTuM.
Extract from the registers OF the Conser.
vative Senate, Floreal, yearil2.

vative Senate, Floreal, yearl2.
The Conservative Senate, assembled to
the number of members prescribed by
the 9Th article oil the constitution, having
seen the project oflhe Senatus Consultum
drawn according TO the 5yth article of the
Organic Senatus Consultum, dated Their
mldor 10th, year 10, and after having
heard on the motives OF the said project
the orators oil government, and the report
! OF Its special commission, nominated i'm the
! sitting OF the Goth of this month, and hay
ing deiberated OIL the adoption Of il to the
number of voices, prescribed by the 5o,h
article ct the irganIc Senatus Consutum.
oil the 10th OF Thermidor, year 10, DEGREES
as follows:
TITLE J..
Art. The government Of the republic
shall be intrusted 10 an Emperor, who as
sumes the tisle of Emperor of the French.
Justice shall be administered in the name
oil the emperor; by officers of the French.
Tile H-Cf Heredituqcnt.
3. The imperial dignity shall be here
dltary, in the dire6t, natural and legitimate
descentof Napoleon Bonaparte, from male
10 male, by order of primogeniture, and to
the perpetual exclusion of females and
their descent.
q. Napoleon Bonaparte may adopt the
children or grand children Of his brothers,
provided they have attained to the age Of
eighteen years complete, and tha, he him.
self has 10 male heirs at the time of a.
doptlon. His adopted sons enter inlo the
line OF his direct descent. If he has any
male children posterior to adoption, his
adopted sons can succeed only after the
natural and legitimate descendants.
5. Failing natural or legitimate heir,
or adopted heir of Napoleon Bonaparte,
the imperial dignity Shall devolve to and
be conferred on Joseph Bonaparte and
his natural and legitimate descendants,
in order of primogenture, to the pcrpetu.
al exclusion of females and their descend
ants.
6. Failing Joseph Bonaparte and his
male descendants, the imperial dignity
shall devolve to and be conferred on Louis
Bonaparte and his natural and legitimate
descendants III the order of primogeni
ture, from male TO male, and TO the perpc-
tual exclusion OF females and their descend
ants.
Z. Failing natural and legitimate heir,
or adopted heir of Napoleon BonapaTte,
falling a natural or legitimate heir of TO-
seph Bonaparte and his male descendants,
OF Louis Bonaparte and his male descend
ants, an Organic Senatus Consul,um, pro
posed TO the senate by the litularies Of
the great dlgnitaries Of the empire. ard
submitted to the acceptance of The peo-
pie, shall nominate The emperor, and re-
guiate in his family the order of heredi,a.
men'' from male TO male, 10 the perpetual
exclusion OF females and Of their descend
ants.
g. Until the moment Of the election Of
the new emperor, the affairs of the state
shall be governed by the ministers, " no
shall form in council the government, and
who shall deliberate by majority of voices
The secretary OF state shall keep journal
ot the deliberations.
Tile IL-Ofthe IDlteriaE RanTEy.
9. The members of the imperial family
in the order of hereditament shall bear
the title of French princes. The eldest
son OF the emperor shall be styled imperial
prince.
10. The mode of education for the French
princes shall be regulated by senatus
consullum.
II. They are members of the senate and
OF the council of state, when they have at
tanned to their eighteenth year.
H. They cannot marry without the con-
sent OF the emperor. The marriage of
French prince without the consent of the
emperor, incurs the privalion of al right
of inheritance, both for the individual
who has contracted it, and for his descend.
ants.
Is. The acls which attest the birth, the
marriages, and deaths Of members of ,he
Imperial family, shall be transmitted, bv
order from the emperor, to the Senate.
who shall order them to be inscribed in
their journals, and deposited among their
archieves.
IA. Napoleon Bonaparte shall establish.
by statutes to which his successors are
bound 10 conform-lst. The duties Of the
individuals of both sexes who are mem.
bcrs o! the imperial family, towards the
Emperor-2d. An organization ofthe I'm
perial Pal"cc, cOnlormdbly TO the dipni-
" OF the throne and the grandeur of the