The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1815-06-17

e"ueCHSostoH-} MS committee Cannot report
until ten days after its appointment.
ts4S. The act ofimpeachment cannot be pro-
nounced until ten days after the reading and
distribution of the report.
~. The impeachment being pronounced,
tne house OF representatives appoints five
commissioners out of its body, to prosecute
the impeachment before the house of peers.
so. The article rs of TITLE VIII. OF the
constitutional act Of the 22d Firm ARE, year
D, declaring that the agents of the govern
ment cannot be prosecuted but by virtue of a
decision OF the counsel of state, shall be mo-
dified by a law.
TITLE v.-oF THE JUDICIAL POWERS.
81. The emperor appoints all the judges
ihey are irrcmovable and for life, from the
time OF their appointment except the iud,,-
es OF the peace and the ridges OF commerce,
who shall hold as formerly. The present
judges, appointed by the emperor according
10 the terms oil TIE Senatus Consultuin of the
18th Oct 1907, and whom he shall deem pro-
per to retain, shalt receive provision for life
before the lst of next January.
50. The institution of juries is maintained.
%. The discussions in criminal cases are
public.
81. Military crimes alone are JUDGED by
military tribunals, SOM DIR reSso1T.
IS. All other crimes, even committed BIZ
military men, are to be coguizable in the civil
tribunals
Sc. All the crimes and offences which were
referred (aff'f6res) to the high imperial
court, and whose Judgment is not reserved bv
fne present act to the house otpecrs, shall he
tried before the ordinary tribunals.
81. The emperor has the right of pardon.
even in correctional matter, and of granting
amnesties.
So. The interpretations of the laws requir-
Cd by the court of appeals, Cessation } Shall
be given in the form of law.
TITLE vf.-RIGHTs OF THE PEOPLE
SO. frenchmen are equal in the sight of the
law, whether for contribution to the public
taxes and charges, or for admission to civil &
military employ.
90. NO one can, under any preteXt be de-
prived of the judges assigned to him by law
oil. No one can be prosecuted, arrested,
detained or eXiled except in cases provided
by the law, and according to the prescribed
forms.
g. Liberty of worship is guaranteed to
all.
g. All property possessed or acquired by
virtue OF the laws, and all the debts (crean-
rsS OF the state, are inviolable
81, Every citizen has the right of printing
and publishing his thoughts, by signing them,
without any previous censure, except legal
responsibility after the publication, by the trial
by jury, even when there would be only cause
TOR the application of correctional punish
ment.
65. The right of petition assured to the
Citizens. Every petition is an Individual one
These petitions may be addressed either to the
government or to the two houses: neverthe-
less even these last ones ought to bear
the title to his Majesty the Emperor They
Snail be presented TO the houses under the
guarantee OF member who recommends the
petition. The parts read publicly and if
tie house undertakes the consideration of
them, they are Carried to the Emperor by the
President.
&c. No place. no part of the territory can
be declared in state of seige except in case
OF an invasion by foreign force, or of civil
troubles In the first case, the declaration is
made by an act of government. In the Sc
cond case, it can only be done by law. How
yer, If = case occur, when the houses are not
IN session, the act OF the government declar-
ing the state OF siege, must be converted into
proposition for law, within the first fifteen
Gays OF the meeting of the houses.
67. The French people declares, moreo-
yer, that in theHelegation which it has made
and which it makes of its powers, it has not
intended, and does not intend to give the
right OF proposing the re-establishment of the
Bourbons, or of any Prince of that family, up
on the throne, even in case of an extinction of
the imperial dynasty nor the right of esta-
blishlng either the ancient nobility OF the feu-
dial or seignorial rights, or the tithes, or any
privileged or dominant worship, nor the DOW
er OF raising any question against the irrevoca-
bilty OF the safe of the national domains. 1t
interdicts formally to the government, to the
houses q to the cit zcns even proposition in
this respect.
(Signed) NAPOLEON.
BY the Emperor The Minister of State.
(Sgned) The Duke Of BASSANO.
Then follows Decree regulating the pro-
portion Of Representatives for each depart
ment, vino are in all to be sos.
Another Decree appoints % Deputies to be
nominated for all the ACCOMPLISHMENTS, from
among merchants, ship-owners, bankers &
manufacturers. They shall be chosen by the
electoral colleges, out of lists presented by CIV.
cry department
Then follows Decree for opening regis
tiers, in which the votes ON the Constitution
are to be inscribed. They are to be open ten
days. The Act of the Constitution is also to
be sent to the army and navy. The Assembly
OF the field of May, for examining the votes,
ecc. is appointed for the 25th May.
FROM FRENCH PAPERS,
Not the iateStS but most Interesting, and such
as hare nor afLffeareG eLsesVdere.