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ANNUAL R EG i STEM, 1S13. 



this matter concerns have to pay 

 due attention hereto. 



Given at Breslau, March 20, 1813. 



(Signed) Frkderick William. 

 Hardenberg. 



Paris, April 9. — Imperial Decree. 



Palace of the Thuilleries, 

 March 25, 1813. 



Napoleon, emperor of the French, 

 &c. We have decreed, and do 

 decree as follows : — 



Art. 1, The Concordat, signed 

 at Fontainbieau, which regulates 

 the affairs of the church, and 

 which was on the 13th of Fe- 

 bruary, 1813, published as the law 

 of the state, is obligatory upon our 

 archbishops, bishops, and chap- 

 ters, who shall be bound to con- 

 form to it. 



2. As soon as we shall have no- 

 minated to a vacant bishoprick, 

 and communicated such nomina- 

 tion to the Holy Father, in the 

 forms prescribed by the Concordat, 

 our Minister of Worship shall send 

 an account of such nomination to 

 the Metropolitan, and if the no- 

 mination be a Metropolitan, to the 

 oldest bishop of the ecclesiastical 

 province. 



3. The persons whom we shall 

 have nominated, shall appear be- 

 fore the Metropolitan, who will 

 make the prescribed inquiries, and 

 address the result of them to the 

 Holy Father. 



4. If the person nominated 

 should be under any ecclesiastical 

 exclusion, the Metropolitan will 

 immediately inform us of it ; and 

 in the case where no reason for ec- 

 clesiastical exclusion exists, if the 

 appointment is not made by the 

 Pope, within six months from the 



notification of our nomination, ac- 

 cording to the 4th Article of the 

 Concordat, the Metropolitan, as- 

 sisted by the bishops of the eccle- 

 siastical province, siiall be obliged 

 to give the said appointment. 



5. Our Imperial Courts shall 

 take cognizance of all the affairs 

 known under the name of appeals, 

 as abuses, as well as of all those 

 which may result from the non- 

 execution of the laws of the 

 Concordat. 



6. Our grand judge shall pre- 

 sent a projet for a law, to be dis- 

 cussed in our council, to determine 

 the proceedings and penalties ap- 

 plicable in these matters. 



7. Our minister of France and 

 the kingdom of Italy are charged 

 with the execution of the present 

 decree, which shall be inserted in 

 the bulletin of the laws. 



(Signed) By the Emperor, 



Napoleon. 

 ( Signed ) by the Minister Secre- 

 tary of State, 



Count Daru. 



Alanijesto of the King of Den- 

 mark. — Dated Copenhagen, 23rd 

 April. 



The Swedish court has found 

 it expedient to recall its Charge 

 d'Aflaires, who was lately appointed 

 to this court. Oar Charge d' Af- 

 faires at the Swedish court, returns, 

 in consequence ,from Stockholm. 



Notwithstanding that the com- 

 mon way of carrying on national 

 concerns no longer exists between 

 the respective Danish and Swe- 

 dish courts, ministerial communi- 

 cation by exchange of letters may 

 still continue. 



The present changed situa- 

 tion between both courts cannot 



