354 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1797. 
Provifory Regulations for the Prufian 
Provinces fituate on the left Bank of 
the Rhine. 
Art. I. ON the 1f Germinal, 
of the fifth year of the Republic 
(March 21, 1797) all the French 
adminiftrations, under what deno- 
mination foever they may have 
been organized, fhall entirely ceafe 
their functions. In order to re- 
place them, and examine their ope- 
rations, there fhall be created an 
intermediate commiffion of five 
members, one of whom fhall be 
perpetual prefident. The commif- 
fion fhall refide at Bonn. 
II. The ancient conftitutions, 
ufages, cuftoms, laws, and contri- 
butions, fhall be re-eftablifhed at 
the above mentioned. period, for 
the Pruffian provinces on. the left 
bank of the Rhine. Their magif- 
tracies, chambers of juftice, and fi- 
nances, fhall refume, with full right, 
their functions. The clergy of all 
orders fhall remain in the entire 
poflefion’ of their property ; and 
no wood fhall, under any pretence, 
be felled, without a fpecial and ex- 
planatory order from the command- 
erin chief of the French army, 
called of the Sambre and Meufe; 
be it however obferved that, until 
farther orders, the authority of the 
Republic is the only one that ought 
to be acknowledged in the conquer- 
ed countries. 
III. The intermediate commif- 
fion fhall appoint a commiffioner 
with the Pruffian adminiftrations, 
whofe functions fhall be to watch 
over the execution of the orders 
given, either by the commander 
in chief or by the commiflion, to 
receive and tranfmit to the com- 
miffion the requefts, either of the 
adminiftrations or private individu- 
als; as likewife all the inftructions, 
he may happen to obtain, and to ~ 
give information to the government 
refpecting the conduct adopted by 
fome of its former agents in the 
conquered countries. 
IV. Immediately after the inftal- 
lation of the magiftracies, which 
fhall be certified by an authentic 
act (proces verbal) the chamber of 
finances of the Pruffian provinces 
{hall order the agents of the former 
adminiftrations to give a detailed 
account of their operations, which. 
it fhall examine and forward to the 
intermediate commiffion, with fuch 
remarks as it fhall think proper to- 
add thereto. 
V. The new magiftrates fhall 
correfpond with the intermediate 
commiffion on fuch matters as re- 
late to their adminiftration; they 
fhall addrefs to the ‘commiffion alk 
the juft requefts which they may 
deem proper to form, and give eve~ 
ry month a minute account of their 
conduct. 
VI. The produce of the taxes of 
the faid Pruffian ftates, of which the 
mode of collection fhall without de- 
lay be fixed, as well as the arrears 
due on the forced loan, fhall be 
thrown, without’any deduétion, in- 
to the cheft of the paymafter-ge- 
neral of the army, who will give 
proper receipts. 
VII. By virtue of the execution 
of the preceding article, no requi- 
fition in money or provifions fhall 
be made in the Prufiian provinces. 
Should, however, the events of the 
war, or other circumftances, render 
neceflary a fupply of provifions or 
cattle; or fhould the want of {pecie 
oblige the perfons paying corftribu- 
tions to acquit themfelves in arti- 
cles of daily confumption, the pro- 
vifions fhall be received at the prices 
hereafter 
