The Wilmingtonian., 1824-04-15

Ministers, Charge d'AEaires, Consuls or
vice-C -ConsuIs to verify and countersign
the passports of strangers and also the
furloughs of military men, absent from
whatever motive, from their corps: to give
certificates Of safety, to the individuals in.
scribed on the lists of their vicinlty--and
to those strangers who may reside icr a
time in places, not their ordinary dom'cll :;
ALSO to grant licences to pedlars, tavern
keepers, hack drivers, mountebanks, &C.
and particularly to persons deslrsus OF
hunting or shooting.
Art. II, Specifies many other attributes
Of the police; to watch servants out OF
place, artisans without work, individuals
without means or trades to maintain them
selves, or who having some means, or use
full employment may be suspected OF not
being able to maintain themselves oy the
product thereof; to take up vagabonds,
sc. particularly gipsies, beggars able to
work, runaway children, and trequenters
Of unlicensed tavcrns; to take care that
neither by land nor water be introduced
any work, in whatever language, unless
the party bringing it have an express or
der from me, or a permission from my
council, granted after scenga copy ot the
work previously transmitted to it, and the
officer OF the press and libraries OF the
Kingdom being iirs. heard to ascertain by
secret means what books introduced in de-
tiance the above regulation may already
exist in the kingdom. either in the hands
Of printers or booksellers, or communities,
Or individuals, however highly privileged,
and to deliver persons guilty os these in
fractions to the competent authority; to
prevent the entry, circulation, and read
ing of periodicals, fugitive pieces, sati'ical
pieces, carricatures, or any other papers
or prints in which my person, or royal
privileges are attacked, or the doinss of
my government censured or iidiculed--
and 10 seize all such objects, as well as the
individuals who may introduce, or possess
them; to arrest all persons altering OBJ
scene or blasphemous cries, or expressions
injurious to my royal person; also all
drunkards, &c. &c; to prosecute all secrct
associations, whether they be of the popu-
lar faction, CcomaneroS) or ffeemasons,
or carbonari, or any other dark sect nuw
existing, or which may hereafter exist, or
whether they meet for any other object,
concerning die nature OF which the clan
destnenesS Of their proceedings may p,l'-
cite suspicion! The remainder Of this arti
Gle is taken up with details Of other duties
Of the police relative to gambling and pub
lie houses, markets, burals, high roads, sc.
over all which it has complete control,
Art. l6. All individuals arrested by the
police, must within eight days be handed
over to the judges or tribunals of their re-
spective districts, whose authority is not
intended to be derogated from, except as
to persons suspected of consprng against
the state, and as to those who may have
contravened the police regulations. Per-
sons suspected of conspiracy, shall remain
at the disposition of the police all the time
that may be required, in order to enable II
to verify the raniIications of their plans
The residue of the decree, which extends
to 20 articles, is taken up with farther de-
tails of the dates of the police; and as to
the manner in which its armed force is to
be constituted and paid. Under this last
head of funds is the following: A fund is
reserved from which extraordinary grata-
itips are to be given to those individuals,
,cho make revelations important to the
tranquility or security of the State, &c.
And among the ways and means or the
support of this establishment, is the an
neXed item. Four reals fhalf dollar) per
annnm, for every certificate Of safety a
document by means whereof each inhabi
tant may travel six leagues (about ) miles
from his dwelling, aciti0ut the necpssiiy d
a passport! and which document all per
sons over l6y years ofagc, including widows
and unmarried girls, if not living viii
their fathers. are obliged to take out, ant
to renew annual y-eXcept military me,
in actual service, priests, day laborers AM
paupers.
This decree bears date the 9th Of Janu
airy, and is signed by the royal hand.
NORTHWEST COAST.