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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1804. 



•wear the sarae dress as that of con- 

 suls : but they are to appear in a 

 particular costume upon great oc- 

 casions. The secretary of state has 

 the rank of a minister ; and all the 

 ministers ^vill hare the title of their 

 excellencies. The lunctionaries of 

 the doparnnents, and all those who 

 present petitions, are to address 

 them by tiie title of monseigneur. 

 The president of the senate will re- 

 ceive the title of his excellency. 

 The maishals of the empire arc to 

 be called monsieur le marshal ; and 

 ■when spoken to, or addressed in 

 Avriting, they arc to have the title 

 of monseigneur. 



Organic Scnatua Cortmltum, cxfra6i- 

 ed from the Register of the Con- 

 seriaii-ce Senate. Floreal, Year 

 11.— May 18, 1804. 



The conservative senate, assem- 

 bled to the number of members. pre- 

 scribed by the 90th article of the 

 constitution, have seen the project 

 of the senatus consiiltum drawn np 

 according to the 57th article of the 

 organic senatus consultum, t'ated 

 Thermidor 16, year 10, and after 

 having heard, on the motives of the 

 said project, the orators of the go- 

 vernment, and the report of its spe- 

 cial commission, nominated in the 

 sitting of the 6th of this month, 

 and having deliberated on the adop- 

 tion of it, to the nur.iber of offices 

 prescribed by the 56th article of the 

 organic senatus consultum, of the 

 IGfh of Thermidor, year 10, de- 

 crees as follows: — 



Tille L 



Article 1. The government of the 



republic shall be entrusted to an 



emperor, who assumes the title of 



emperor of the French. Justice 



shall be administered in the name of 

 the emperor by officers whom he 

 shall appoint. — 2. Napoleon Buo- 

 naparte, now first consul of the 

 republic, shall be emperor of the 

 French. 



Title II.— Of Hereditament. 

 The imperial dignity is heredita- 

 ry, in a direct, natural, and legiti- 

 mate descent of Napoleon Buona- 

 parte, from male to male, in order 

 of primogeniture, and to the perpe- 

 tual exclusion of females and their 

 descent. — 4. Napoleon Buonaparte 

 may adopt the children or grand- 

 children of his brothers, provided 

 they have attained the ^e of eigh, 

 teen years complete, and that he 

 himself have no male heirs at the time 

 of adoption, ilis adopted sons en- 

 ter into the line of his direct descent. 

 If he have any male children poste- 

 rior to adoption, his adopted sons 

 can succeed only after the natural 

 and legitimate descendants. Adop- 

 tion is interdicted to the succjcssors 

 of Napoleon Buonaparte, and to 

 their descendants. — 5. Failing a na- 

 tural or legitimate heir, or adopted 

 heir of Napoleon Buonaparte, the 

 imperial dignity shall devolve to and 

 . be conferred on Joseph Buonaparte 

 and his natural and legitimate de- 

 scendants, in the order of primoge- 

 niture, to the perpetual exclusion 

 of females and their descendants. 

 — 6. Failing Joseph Buonaparte 

 and his male descendants, the im- 

 perial dignity shall devolve to and 

 be conferred on Louis Buona- 

 parte and his natural and legitimate 

 descendants, in the order of primo- 

 geniture, from male to male, and 

 to the perpetual exclusion of females 

 and their descendants. — 7. Failing 

 a natural and legitimate heir, or 

 adopted heir of Najjoleon Buona- 

 parte, failing a natural or legitimate 



heir 



