Art. 1. Agreeable to the 15th, 36th, and 30th articles of the Constitution, the Chamber of Deputies will be composed only of Deputies of Departments. 2. The income necessary to constitute an elector and the income necessary to constitute eligibility, shall be exclusively confined to sums for which the elector and the eligible shall be personally enregistered in the rolls for imposition of direct and personal taxes in quality of proprietor or tenant. 4. The Deputies will be elected and the Chamber will be reopened in the form and for the time fixed by the 37th article of the Constitution. 5. The electoral colleges will be divided into colleges of arrondissements and colleges of departments, always excepting the electoral colleges of departments to which only one deputy is assigned. 6. The electoral colleges of arrondissements will be composed of all the electors who have their political domicile established in the arrondissement. The electoral colleges of departments will be composed of one fourth of the electors paying the highest tax in the department. 7. The present limits of the electoral colleges of arrondissement are maintained. 8. Each electoral college of arrondissement will elect a number of candidates equal to the number of deputies of departments. 9. The college of arrondissement will be divided into as many sections as it has a right to elect candidates. This division will be made proportionably to the number of sections and to the total number of electors of the college, having regard as much as possible to the convenience of localities and neighborhoods. 10. The sections of the electoral college of arrondissement may be assembled in different places. 11. Each section of the electoral college of arrondissement will elect a candidate and proceed separately. 12. The Presidents of the section of the electoral college of arrondissement will be named by the Prefects from among the electors of the arrondissement. 13. The college of department will elect the deputies. Half the deputies of department must be chosen from the general list of candidates proposed by the colleges of arrondissement; nevertheless, if the number of deputies of department is odd, the division shall be made without reduction of the right reserved to the college of department. 14. In case, either in consequence of omissions of double nominations, or of nominations made void, the list of candidates, proposed by the colleges of arrondissement shall be incomplete if this list is thus reduced below the half of the requisite number, the college of department may elect one more deputy without reference to the list; if the list is reduced below one fourth, the college of department may elect the whole number of the deputies of department without reference to the lists. 15. The Prefects, sub-prefects and general officers commanding the military divisions and the de partments, are not eligible in the commanders will be held subject departments where they exercise to his request. their functions. 22. The elections in the col16. The list of electors will leges and sections of colleges will be determined by the prefect in be decided by an absolute majority council of prefature-it shall be of the whole number of votes given. published five days before the Nevertheless, if the elections are meeting of the colleges. not terminated after twice balloting, the bureau will determine the list of those persons who shall have obtained the greatest number of suffrages at the second balloting. It shall contain double the number of names that there remain elections to be made. At the third balloting the suffrages can only be given to the persons inscribed upon the list and the nomination will be made by the relative majority. 17. Claims to the right of suffrage, not acknowledged by the prefects, shall be determined by the Chamber of Deputies at the same time that they shall determine upon the validity of the operations of the colleges. 18. In the electoral colleges of department the two eldest electors and the two electors paying the highest taxes, shall perform the functions of scrutators- the same rules will be observed in the sec- 23. The electors will vote by tions of the college of arrondisse- tickets, [bulletins deliste] each ment composed of more than fifty ticket will contain as many names electors. In the other sections of as there are elections to be made. the college, the functions of scrutator will be exercised by the oldest and highest taxed of the electThe secretary will be named in the college of the sections of colleges, by the president and ors. scrutators. 19. No one will be admitted in the college or section of college if he is not enrolled on the list of electors for said section. This list will be given to the president, and will remain posted in the chamber of sessions of said college during its operations. 20. All discussion or deliberation whatever in the electoral colleges is forbidden. 21. The police of the college is invested in the president. No armed force can, without his demand, be placed in the vicinity of the place of sessions. Military 24. The electors will write their vote at the bureau or they will cause it to be there written by the scrutators. 25. The name, the qualifications, and the residence of each elector, that deposits his ticket or vote, shall be inscribed by the secretary upon a list destined to verify the number of voters. 26. Each balloting shall be continued during six hours, and the votes shall be counted during the sessions. 27. A statement of the result of each session shall be drafted. This statement shall be signed by all the members of the bureau. 28. Conformably to the 46th article of the constitution, no amendment can be made to a law in the Chamber if it has been proposed or consented to by us, and if it has not been returned to or discussed in committee. 29. All regulations opposed to the present ordinance are annulled. 30. Our ministers are charged with the execution of the present ordinance. Given at St Cloud, the 25th of July, in the year of our Lord 1830, and the sixth of our reign. CHARLES. By the King: The President of the Council of Min isters, 3. Our Minister of the Interior is charged with the execution of the present ordinance. Given at our Palace of St Cloud, the 25th of July, in the year of our Lord 1830, and the sixth of our reign. CHARLES. By the King. The Minister of the Interior, Liberty of the Press Abolished. Charles, by the grace of God, King of France and Navarre. PRINCE DE POLIGNAC. To all those to whom these pres Minister of Justice, Charles-By the Grace of God, King of France and Navarre. To all those to whom these presents may come, greeting: In accordance with the royal ordinance, bearing date of this day, relative to the organization of the Electoral Colleges, upon the report of our Minister of the Interior. We have ordained and ordain as follows: Art. 1. The Elector Colleges shall assemble, namely, the electoral colleges of arrondissement, the sixth of September next, and the electoral colleges of Department, the 18th of the same month. ents may come, greeting: Upon the report of our Counsel of Ministers, we have ordained and ordain as follows : Art. 1. The liberty of the press is suspended. 2. The regulations of the first, second and ninth articles of the 1st section of the law of 21st October, 1814, are in force: consequently no journal, periodical, or semi-periodical publication, established, or to be established, without regard to the matters treated of, can appear either in Paris, or in the departments, but in virtue of authorization, obtained separately by the author and publisher. The authorization must be renewed every three months. It may be revoked. 3. This authorization may be provisionally granted, withheld or withdrawn from the journals, periodical and semi-periodical works, now published, or which may hereafter be published in the departments, by the Prefects. 4. Journals and other writings, `published in contravention of the 2. The Chamber of Peers and the Chamber of Deputies of Department are convoked for the 28th of the month of Sept. next. 2d article, will be immediately seized. The presses and types, which served for their impression, will be placed under seal in a public depot, or placed hors de service. 5. No writing, under twenty sheets of impression can appear in Paris, without authorization obtained from our Minister of the Interior and of the Prefects in the Departments. Writings published without authorization will be immediately seized. The presses and types, which have served for the impression will be placed under seal in a public depot, or placed hors de service. Dissolution of the Chamber of Charles, by the grace of God, King of France and Navarre. To all those to whom these presents may come, greeting: In virtue of the fiftieth article of the Constitution, having been informed of the manœuvres practised in many parts of our kingdom to deceive and mislead the electors during the last operations of the electoral colleges, our Council being heard, we have ordained and do ordain : Art. 1. The Chamber of Deputies is dissolved. 2. Our Minister of the Interior 6. The reports of trials and the memorials of literary and scientific societies, if they treat is charged with the execution of entirely or in part of political this present ordinance. matters, are subjected to the above-mentioned authorization, a case in which the articles prescribed by article 5th, will be applicable. 7. All regulations opposed to the present are declared null. 8. The present ordinance will be enforced in conformity to the 4th article of the ordinance of the 27th of November, 1815, and of that prescribed by the ordinance of the 18th of January, 1817. 9. Our Ministers are charged with the execution of these pres ents. Given at our Palace of St Cloud, this 25th of July, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty, and of our Sovereignty the sixth, CHARLES. By the King: PRINCE DE POLIGNAC, President of the Council of Ministers. Given at St Cloud, the 25th day of July, in the year of our Lord 1830, and the sixth of our reign. By the King: CHARLES. CH. DE PEYRONNET, The Protest of the Deputies. The undersigned regularly elected Deputies by the Colleges of Arrondissements, by virtue of the Royal Ordinance of the and conformably to the Constitutional Charter, and to the Laws relative to Electors of the— and who are now at Paris, consider themselves as absolutely obliged, by their duties and their honor, to protest against the measures which the advisers of the Crown have lately caused to be proclaimed for the overthrow of the legal system of the election and the ruin of the liberty of the press. The same measures contained in the Ordinance of the , are, in the opinion of the undersigned, directly contrary to the Constitutional rights of the Chamber of Peers, to the public rights of the French, to the attributes and to the decrees of the tribunals, and calculated to throw the State into confusion, which equally endangers the peace of the present moment and the security of the future. In consequence, the undersigned, inviolably faithful to their oath, protest, in concert, not only against the said measures, but against all the acts which may result from them. And considering, on the one hand, that the Chamber of Deputies, not having been constituted, could not be legally dissolved; on the other, that the attempt to form a new Chamber of Deputies in a novel and arbitrary manner, is directly opposed to the Constitutional Charter, and to the acquired rights of the electors, the undersigned declare that they still consider themselves as legally elected to the Deputation by the Colleges of the Arrondissements and Departments, whose suffrages they have obtained, and as incapable of being replaced, except by virtue of elections made according to the principles and forms prescribed by the laws. And if the undersigned do not effectively exercise the rights, nor perform all duties which they derive from their legal election, it is because they are hindered by absolute violence. Frenchmen! France is free! Absolute power has raised its standard; the heroic population of Paris has overthrown it. Paris, attacked, has made the sacred cause triumph by arms which had triumphed in vain in the elections. A power which usurped our rights and disturbed our repose, threatened at once liberty and order. We return to the possession of order and liberty. There is no more fear for acquired rights, no more barrier between us and the rights which we still want. A Government which may without dismay secure to us these advantages, is now the first want of our country. Frenchmen! Those of your Deputies who are already at Paris have assembled, and, till the Chambers can regularly intervene, they have invited a Frenchman, who has never fought but for France, the Duke of Orleans, to exercise the functions of Lieutenant General of the Kingdom. This is, in their opinion, the surest means promptly to accomplish by peace the success of the most legitimate defence. The Duke of Orleans is devoted to the national and constitutional cause. He has always defended its interests and professed its principles. He will respect our rights, for he will derive his own. from us. We shall secure to ourselves, by laws, all the guar |