940] ANNUAL REGISTER, 1796. 
‘bution fixed as above, or with the 
receipts which they will give, instead 
of ready money. 
Proclamation of CommissarySalicetti. 
Art. 1. THE council establish. 
ed on the 9th May last by the 
“archduke, at the moment of his 
flight, on which he dévolved, by 
an ediét, the exercise of the su- 
preme power, is suppressed. The 
president of the supreme tribunal, 
the two presidents of appeal and of 
the first instance, and the president 
of the magistracy, who were ap- 
pointed by the archduke to com- 
pose this council, are prohibited 
from continuing their funétions. 
2. The general council of de- 
curions, concentrated into privi- 
leged classes, whose funétions were 
reserved for extraordinary o€¢ca- 
sions, having become useless by 
present circumstances, is also sup- 
pressed : and the same prohibition 
is extended to the nobles and patri- 
cians who compose it. 
3. Fhe magistracy, known by 
the name of magistrat politique dela 
chambre, whose complicated func- 
tions having also become useless, 
tend only to throw obstacles in the 
way of the simple course of go- 
vernment, is likewise suppressed ; 
and those who exercised the office 
are forbidden to assemble, except 
it be to replace, after receiving 
other instructions, the members of- 
this body, when their funétions 
shall be readered subservient to 
the happiness of the people. 
4. The authorities thus suppress- 
ed shall be provisionally replaced by 
a military agency, composed of 
citizens Maurin, Reboul, and Pa- 
train. 
5. The assembly of the state, 
. 
_ons are also retained in all the com- 
composed of thirteen members, to 
whom the government of alt Lom- 
bardy is committed, is provisionally 
retained in the functions allot- 
ted to it by itsinstitution. It shall 
exercise these functions in the 
name of the republic of France, 
under the inspection and: controul 
of the military agents to whom it 
shall be accountable. 
6. The municipal administrati- 
munes of Lombardy. 
7. The municipal assembly exist- 
ing at Milan, composed of thirteen | 
members and a syndic, is also pro- 
visionally retained under the name 
of the municipality of the town of 
Milan. 
8. The commandant of the fort 
of Milan shail be president of the 
municipal council, and shall exer- 
cise in it a military police, and 
also all the functions delegated by 
the French laws to the comman- 
dants of forts in a state of siege. 
9. The members composing the 
municipality of Milan are Francois 
Viscanti, Antoine Caccianini, Ga- 
leas Serbelloni,’ Felix Laticada, } 
Charles Bignami, Antoine Cor- 
betta, Fidele Sopransi, Gatean 
Porro, Pierre Verri, Joseph Viol- 
tini, Jean Baptiste Sommarina, 
Paul Sangiorgio, Antoine Crespi, 
Cesar Pelagata, Charles Ciani,§ 
Charles Parea. prvbis 
10. The aéts and deliberations 
of all the authorities created or pre-§ 
served by the present decree, shallf 
be in the name of the French re- 
public. 
Proclamation by Buonaparte, Com-} 
mander in Chief of the Army of: 
Italy, to his Brothers mm Arms, 
dated Head Quarters at Milan, 
Prairial 1, (May 20.) 
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