430 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1797. 
Republic and his Holinefs, is de- 
clared to extend to the Batavian 
Republic. 
XXIII. The poft of France fhall 
be re-eftablifhed at Rome, in the 
fame manner as exifted before. 
XXIV. The fehool of arts, infti- 
tuted at Rome for all the French, 
fhall be re-eftablifhed, and fhall 
continue to be conduéted as before 
the war. The palace belonging 
to the Republic, where this fchoal 
is held, fhall be reftored without 
watte. 
XXV. All the articles, claufes, 
and conditions of the prefent treaty 
* fhall be, without exception, obliga- 
tory fer ever, as wellon his Holi- 
nefs as on his fucceffors. 
XXVI. The prefent treaty hall 
be ratified with the fhorteft poffible 
delay. 
Made and figned at the head- 
quarters of Tolentino, by 
the faid Plenipotentiaries, 
February 19th, 1797. 
(Signed) BuonaparTs. 
CaCAULtT. 
To Cardinals Maltei, L. Galeppi, 
I. Duca, Brafchi, Oneftt, and 
Camillo, Marquis of Maffia. 
Convention fiipulated at Monte Bello w/on 
» the 5th and 6th of June, ¥797, between 
Citizen Buonaparte, General in Chief 
of the French Army of Italy, Citizen 
Faypoult, Minifter of the French Re- 
public at Genoa, and his Excellency 
M. Michael Angelo Cambrofa, Louis 
‘Carbonera and Gerolino, Deputies of 
the Republic of Genoa. 
THE French Republic and the 
Republic of Genoa being defirous 
to confolidate the union and har- 
mony which have always exifted 
between the French Republic and 
the Republic of Genoa; thinking 
likewife that the happinefs of the 
Genoefe nation requires that it 
fhould regain poffeffion of the de- 
pofit of its fovereignty; the two 
{tates have agreed upan the follow- 
ing articles ; 
I. The government of the Re- 
publio of Genoa acknowledges the 
{overeignty to refide in the aggre- 
gate of all the citizens of the terri- 
tory of the ftate, 
{]. The legiflative power fhall 
be entrufted to two reprefentative 
councils: the one compofed of 
three hundred, and the other of 
one hundred and fifty members. 
The executive power fhall be dele- 
gated to a fenate of ten members, 
over which a doge fhall prefide: 
the fenators fhall be in the nomina- 
tion of the councils. 
III. Eyery commune fhall have a 
municipality, and every diftrict an 
adminiftration. 
IV. The mode of eletion of all 
the authorities, the limits of the dif- 
tridts, the portion of authority en- 
trufted to all the different bodies, 
the organization of the judicial 
power and the military force, fhall 
be determined by a committee of 
legiflation, charged with the tafk of 
framing the conttitution, and all the 
organical laws of the goyernment, 
with! the referve of doing nothing 
contrary to the Catholic religion, 
to guarantee the confolidated debts, 
to preferve the free port of the city 
of Genoaand the bank of St. George, 
and to take meatures, as far as means 
fhall permit, to provide for the fup- 
port of the poor nobles wha at pre- 
fent exift. This committee fhall be 
obliged to complete its work in the 
{pace of one month, reckoning from 
the day of its formation. 
V. The people finding them 
felves 
