APPENDIX to the CHRONICLE. 



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The zealous and good citizens 

 \vill, however, be enabled to lay 

 before the council their knowlcdtre 

 of all important subiects, wliich 

 will be taken into consideration and 

 discussed accordintrjy, but they will 

 have no part in its deliberations. 



The general council therefore in- 

 vites all communities of Corsica to 

 assemble on Sunday the first of Juno, 

 each to appoint, according to the 

 form of election hereunto annexed, 

 its representative at the general 

 council, and the general assembly 

 of the clergy to take place on the 

 Sunday following, the 8tli of June. 



The municipal officers and pa- 

 rishes of the respective conuiiuiiities 

 are charged with the publication 

 and distribution of both general Pa- 

 oli's circular letter and this. 



Corte, May 9, ] 7i>i: 



For the general council of the go- 

 vernment. 



(Signed) 



(^^ great number of uamcs.) 



FORM or ELECTION. 



In the year 1794, on the 1st of 

 June, in the parish church of the 

 community of usual place 



for the general meeting of the 

 clergy : 



We A''. N. N*. the inhabitants of 

 the said community, exceeding the 

 age of twenty-five, being legally 

 united by virtue of the circular let- 

 ter wrote on the 1st of May by his 

 excellency general de Paoli, and the 

 one wroteby the provisional govern- 

 ment on the 9th of the same month, 

 duly published, toappoint a deputy, 

 who is to be a representative at the 

 general council of Corsica, to be 

 held on the 8th current, we iiave 

 chosen as our president Mr. N. the 



most proper person among tbos; 

 assembled, who know how to 

 write, and who has appointed as 

 his secretary Mr. N. 



In succession of tlie said appoint- 

 ment, the majoritv of votes is given 

 in favour of Mr, N. father of afa- 

 inily, who has been duly elected by 

 the present assembly, and proclaimed 

 deputy, and unto him we give the 

 power of concerting and treating 

 with the other representativesof th^ 

 nation, on the transactions that will 

 in future take place between Corsica 

 and his majesty the king of Great 

 Britain and the Enghsh nation ; as 

 likewise on subjects of public utility 

 contained in the aforesaid circular 

 letter. 



And the present verbal process 

 has been registered, and deposited 

 in the chanceiy of this communitv, 

 and a copy given to serve hini tlie 

 said Mr. N. deputy, as a full power 

 and certificate. N. President. 



N. Secretary. 



Firm of the general council. 

 CoTTONi, vice-president, 

 MusLLLi, secretary. 



TRANSLATION. 



We, the representatives of the 

 Corsican nation, free and indepen^ 

 dent, lawfully assembled in a gene- 

 ral meeting, possessed of a special 

 authority to form the present consti- 

 tutional act, have unanimously de- 

 creed, under the auspices of the 

 Supreme Being, the following ar- 

 ticles : 



CHAPTER I. 



Of the nature of the constitution , and 

 of tile constituted po"Mers. 

 Article 1. Tiie constitution of. 

 Corsica is monarchical, accord- 



• Here all naraes of such persons as shall be present at the meeting will be affiKcd. 



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