STATE PAPERS. 



67: 



the other in the archives of the pub- 

 lic authority whence the act origi- 

 n-ted. 140. The promulgation is 

 in the following terms: " N. (the 

 surname of (lie emperor)^ by the 

 grace of God and the constitutions 

 of the repv:blic, emperor of the 

 French, to all present and absent, 

 greeting: the senate, after hearing 

 the orators of the council of state, 

 has decreed and ordered as fol- 

 lows :" — (or provided it be a neio 

 lazi) " the legislative body on the 

 (the date) Tiave issued the fol- 

 lowing decree, conformably to the 

 proposition made in the name of 

 the emperor, and after having heard 

 the orators of the council of state 

 and the se<5tions of the tribunate: 

 we hereby command that the pre- 

 sent, sealed with the seal of the 

 state, and inserted in the bulletins 

 of the laws, be addressed to the 

 courts, tribunals, and administra- 

 tive authorities, to be inscribed in 

 their registers, and duly observed 

 and executed. The grand judge, 

 minister of justice, shall watch over 

 the execution of the same. 



Title XI'I. and Last. 

 151. The following proposition 

 shall be presented for the accept- 

 ance of the people, according to 

 the forms determined by the decree 

 of the 20th Floreal (year 10), 

 *' The people wills the imperial 

 dignity to be hereditary in the di- 

 rect, natural, legitimate, and adopt- 

 ed descent of Napoleon Buonaparte, 

 and in the direct, natural, and legi- 

 timate descent of Joseph and of 

 Louis Buonaparte, as regulated by 

 the organic senatus consultum of the 

 28th Floreal, year 12. 



(Signed) C'ambaceres, 



Second Consul, l^resident. 



Morand de Gailes, 



Joseph (yornudet. 



Secretaries. 



It is our will and pleasure that 

 the present, sealed with the seal of 

 the state, and inserted in the bulletin 

 of the laws, be addressed to the re- 

 speftive courts, tribunals, and ad- 

 ministrative authorities, to be in- 

 scribed in their registers, and duly, 

 observed and executed. The grand 

 judge, minister of justice, is charg- 

 ed to watch over the execution of 

 the same. 



(Signed) Napoleon. 



By the emperor, 



(Signed) 11. B. Maret. 



Examined by us, arch-chancellor 

 of the empire, 



(Signed) Cambaceres. 



The grand judge, minister of juS" 

 tice. 



(Signed) 



Regnier. 



Note, addressed hi/ M. Dachcr, 

 French Charge-d' Affaires at tht 

 Diet of Ratisbon, to the Dietj 

 dated the ^Sfh of May, 1804, a 

 particular Note, of the same Te- 

 nor, having been addressed to 

 each Court of the German Em- 

 pire. 



The undersigned, the French 

 charge-d'affaircs, has the honour to 

 transmit to the general diet of th« 

 Germanic empire, the annexed co- 

 py of the decree of the senate, 

 which determines henceforth the 

 style, the forms, and the transmis- 

 sal of the supreme power in France, 

 the only things which, in the orga- 

 nization of the republican govern- 

 ment, did not bear a due propor- 

 tion to the greatness and to the calls 

 of the state. He hastens, in these 

 circumstances, to notify, conforma- 

 bly to the orders of his govern- 

 ment, that his imperial majesty Na- 

 poleon, emperor of the French, ii 

 invested by the laws of the state 



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