STATE PAPERS. 



503 



Title I. — Of the union of the 

 Roman states to the empire. 



Art. 1. The state of Rome is 

 united to the French empire, and 

 forms an integral part thereof. 



2. It shall be divided into two 

 departments : the department of 

 Rome, and the department of 

 Trasimene. 



3. The department of Rome shall 

 send seven deputies to the legisla- 

 tive body. The department of 

 Trasimene shall send four. 



4'. The department of Rome shall 

 be classed in the first series — the 

 department of Trasimene in the 

 second. 



5. A senatory shall be establish- 

 ed in the departments of Rome 

 and Trasimene. 



6. The city of Rome is the se- 

 cond city of the empire. — The 

 mayor of Rome is to be present 

 when the emperor takes the oaths 

 on his accession. He is to rank, as 

 are also all deputations from the 

 city of Rome, on all occasions, im- 

 mediately after the mayors or de- 

 putations of the city of Paris. 



7. The prince imperial is to as- 

 sume the title, and receive the 

 honours, of king of Rome. 



8. A prince of the blood, or a 

 grand dignitary of the empire, 

 shall reside at Rome, who shall 

 hold the emperor's court. 



9. The property which composes 

 the endowments of the imperial 

 crown shall be regulated by a spe- 

 cial senatus consultum. 



10. After having been crowned 

 in the church of Notre Dame at 

 Paris, the emperors shall, previous 

 to the tenth year of their reign, be 

 crowned in the churchof St. Peter. 



11. The city of Rome shall en- 

 joy particular privileges and im- 

 munities, which shall be determin- 

 ed by the emperor Napoleon. 



Title II. — Of the Independence 

 of the imperial throne of all au- 

 thority on earth. 



12. Everj' foreign sovereign is 

 incompatible with the exercise of 

 any spiritual authority within the 

 territory of the empire. 



13. The popes shall, at their 

 elevation, take an oath never to act 

 contrary to thefour propositions of 

 the Gallican church, adopted in 

 an assembly of the clergy in J 682. 



1 4. The four propositions of the 

 Catholic church are declared com- 

 mon to all the Catholic churches 

 of the empire. 



Title III Of the temporal 



existence of the popes. 



15. Palaces shall be prepared for 

 the pope in the different parts of 

 the empire in which he may wish 

 to reside. He shall necessarily have 

 one at Paris and another at Rome. 



16. Two millions in rural pro- 

 perty, free of all impositions, and 

 lying in different parts of the em- 

 pire, shall be assigned to the pope. 



17. The expences of the sacred 

 college, and of the propaganda, 

 shall be declared imperial. 



18. The present organic senatus 

 consultum shall be transmitted by 

 a message to his majesty the em- 

 peror and king. 



(Signed) Cambaceres, 

 Prince Arch-Chancellor of 

 the Empire. 

 Fkancois, Jancourt, Cornet, 

 Secretaries. 

 Count Laplace, 

 Chancellor of the Senate. 

 The senate met on the 27th of 

 February, at half-past one o'clock. 

 The prince arch-chancellor, who 

 presided on the occasion, read the 

 following message from his ma- 

 jesty : — 



Senators, — We have dispatched 

 to Vienna, as our ambassador ex- 



