Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1811-10-07

| Ereucb Eead Quarters at ValadshL
WE the Martial Of the Empire
| Duke Of Iftria, Colonel General o
he Imperial Guards, General il
Chief of the Army of the North o
lSpain:
| Upon the report Of the Intendan
General, we have ordered and do or
der as fellows
| Art. /. There fhall be formed BY
the municipalities in the towns, and
by the magiitrates in the villages
lit of all the individuals who have
Quilted their homes, and who do re-
foe in places occupied BY French
troops.
2. All fuch individuals fhall be
bound to return TO their homes in
the courfe of month in default of
which they ihall be confidered as
forming part of the bands of infur-
gents. and all their property fhall
be conhfcated /; all perfons owing
them rents, and their debtors of ev-
cry defcription whatever, arc forbid
den to make their payments in any
other way but into the hands Of the
Administrators OF the National Do
mains.
Z. The farthers, mothers, broth
ers, filters, childrcd and nephews, of
fuch individuals, ars declared refpon-
lble, both in their property and in
their perfons, for every act of fpoli-
alton committed by the infurgents
upon peaceablc citizens, or upon
their property.
a. IF any inhabitant is carried off
from his home, three of the neareft
relatives of a brigand fhall ba imme-
iiatcly arreitcd, TO fervc as hoifagcs.
Il this individual is put to death by
he bands, the hoiages fhall be fhot
Immediately, and without any form
Of procefs
s. Every perfon who fhall abfent
,imf-lf from bis townihip for more
han Fights days, Ito commence from
he publication Of the prefent ordi-
aance) without pcrmitIion, fhall be
oniidered as having gone over to the
,ands all his property hall be fequef-
rated, and sold after the expiration
# three months ; all his relatives
within the degrees mentioned in the
Third Article, thall be put under ar
eft.
6. No inhabitant can remove from
is townihip without being provided
nth paffpoit, which fhall be given
pom the certificate of two refident
toufe holders in the townfhip, who
hall be fureties, that at the expira-
ion Of the time mentioned in the
'aGport, he who is the bearer fhall
ave returned to his townfhip, or
hall have fhewn that he refided in
,laees occupied by the French army.
In failure of which the two fure-
les fhall be arcited and put into
,rifon,
J. Every inhabitant of towns
where there is Comminary Of Po-
ice, fhall provide himfelf with card
IF fecurity.
s. Domiciliary Wits fhall be made
n purfuance Of the orders of the
of Towns, at periods
which they fhall deem proper eve
~ Individual unprovided with card
Of fecuri,y ihall be Immediately arref-
tied and tent to pifon; the public fun
ttionaries alone are excepted from
this order.
Q. In like manner thoie ihall be
who have given an afylum
10 any individual unprovided with a
paaport or card of fecurity.
70. Whoever fhall be convicted
Of having held correfpondencc with
the brigands, ihall be puniaed with
dtath.
ri. All CORRESPONDENCE. with the
Inhabitants, of diftrids occupied by
infurgents is prohibited thofe who
receive letters from fuch diitricts
mutt give them to the Commandants
of Towns, or to Commillioners of
Police, where there are luch.
II. fnfraGions of the preceding
article fhall be punifhed with ter
years' imprisonment.
I3. The Governor General of
The different Governments. and the