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after established. His Majesty, how- 

 ever, to be bound to convoke it eve- 

 ry year. — Placet Regis Majestati. 



Art. 10. The nation, having to 

 fix the subsidies necessary to the 

 State, will consider it as a positive 

 duty to tix, for the Civil List, such 

 sums as are necessary to the splen- 

 dor, independence, and mainte- 

 nance of its august Sovereign and 

 Royal Family, to the most gene- 

 rous extent that the actual state 

 of the finances of the kingdom 

 will permit — in consequence of 

 which arrangement, the nation 

 shall take upon itself the manage- 

 ment and administration of the 

 national funds, including all those 

 which have hitherto been con- 

 sidered as fiscal duties, and land 

 revenues, which shall be paid over 

 to the Minister of Finances, for 

 the purposes established by Par- 

 liament. As to the persons, sjs- 

 tem, and means, by which such 

 funds are to be collected and dis- 

 posed of, they remain to be fixed 

 in the detail of this article. — Vetat 

 Regia Majestas. 



Art. 11. No Sicilian subject shall 

 be arrested, banished, or other- 

 wise punished or disturbed in tlie 

 enjoyment of his rights or property, 

 unless in conformity to the new 

 Code of Laws, to be hereafter es- 

 tablished by this Parliament. The 

 Peers to enjoy the same judicial 

 forms which they enjoy in Eng- 

 land, as will be subsequently de- 

 tailed. — Placet Regis Majestati. 



Art. 12. With that disinterested- 

 ness which the military branch has 

 always shewn, it has voted and 

 concluded, and the Parliament has 

 established, that the Feudal Sys- 

 tem shall be abolished, and all the 

 lands shall be possessed in Sicily, 

 as allodial or free estates ; pre- 



serving, however, the order of suc- 

 cession in the respective families, 

 which is actually enjoyed. The 

 jurisdiction of the Barons shall 

 likewise cease, and therefore the 

 Barons shall be exempted from all 

 the burdens to which they have 

 hitherto been subjected by such 

 feudal rights. There shall also be 

 abolished, the Investitures, Reliefs 

 frilevij Fines to the Crown fdevo- 

 luzioni al FiscoJ, and every other 

 burden whatever inherent in the 

 feudal system ; every family, how- 

 ever, preserving its titles and ho- 

 nours. — Placet Regis Majestati. 



Art. 13. It likewise agrees to 

 establish that the rights called 

 Angarici (being privileges and ex- 

 emptions from assessment), shall 

 be abolished as soon as the com- 

 munity in general, or the indivi- 

 dual, subject to them, shall indem- 

 nify the actual proprietors ; calcu- 

 lating the capital either at twenty 

 years purchase of the produce of 

 the tax existing at the period of 

 liquidation ; or in default of that 

 estimating the same by the books 

 of the respective Segrezia ; it being 

 understood, however, that the pos- 

 sessors of lands of whatever nature, 

 shall retain the same power and 

 the same rights as before, so far as 

 regards the exacting of debts or 

 rents, and this in the same man- 

 ner and form as they have hitherto 

 enjoyed them. — (His Majesty re- 

 serves to himself to give his Royal 

 sanction to the above article, when 

 he shall have received the neces- 

 sary information respecting it.) 



Art. 14. The Military Branch 

 agrees, also, to the suggestion of 

 the Commons, that every proposal 

 relative to subsidies shall proceed 

 exclusively from, and be concluded 

 in the House of Commons, and 



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