STATE PAPERS. 



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1810. The interest of the debt for 

 • 1808 and 1809, not yet paid, shall 

 bereduced to one-third, and charg- 

 ed on the budget of ISIO. 



9. The custom-houses on the 

 ( frontier, other than those of France, 



shall beorganized under the super- 

 intendance of our director-general 

 of the custom-houses. The Dutch 

 custom-houses shall be incorporat- 

 ed therewith. The line of custom- 

 houses now on the French frontier, 

 shall be kept up till the 1st of Ja- 

 nuary 1811, when it shall be re- 

 moved, and the communication of 

 Holland with the empire be free. 



10. The colonial produce, ac- 

 tually in Holland, shall remain in 



I the hands of the owners, upon 

 paying a duty of fifty per cent ad 

 valorem. A declaration of the 

 amount shall be made before the 

 1st of September, at farthest. The 

 said merchandize, upon payment 

 of the diities, may be imported into 

 France, and circulated through 

 the whole of the empire. 



Title IV 11. There shall be 



at Amsterdam a special adminis- 

 tration, presided over by one of 

 our counsellors of state, which 

 shall have the superintendance of, 

 and the necessary funds to provide 

 for, the repairs of the dikes, pol- 

 ders, and other public works. 



Title V. — 12. In the course 

 of the present month, there shall 

 be nominated, by the legislative 

 body of Holland, a commission of 

 fifteen members, to proceed to 

 Paris, in order to constitute a 

 council, whose business shall be 

 to regulate definitively all that re- 

 lates to the public and local debts, 

 and to conciliate the principles of 

 the union with the localities and 

 interests of the country. 



13. 



Our ministers are charged 



with the execution of the present 

 decrees. 



(Signed) 

 Hy the Emperor Napoleon. 



(Signed) 

 The Minister Secretary of State, 



H. B. Duke of Bassano. 

 Holland, in consequence of the 

 above, has since been annexed to 

 France ! 



3. Hanse Towns. 



Project of an Organic Senatus Con- 

 sultuni. 



Art. 1. Holland, the Hanse 

 Towns, Lauenburg, and the terri- 

 tories which lie between the 

 North Sea, and a line which shall 

 extend from the place where the 

 Lippe enters the Rhine, to its 

 sources ; from these sources to 

 the Upper Ems ; from the Ems 

 to the entrance of the Werra 

 into the Weser ; and from Stol- 

 zenau on the Weser to the Elbe, 

 above the junction of the Sleek- 

 niss, shall form an integral part 

 of the French empire. 



2. The said territories shall 

 form ten departments, namely : — 

 The department of the Zuyder 

 Zee, of the mouths of the Maese, 

 of the Upper Yssel, the mouths of 

 the Yssel, East Friesland, the 

 West Ems, the East Ems, the Up- 

 per Ems, the mouths of the Weser, 

 and the mouths of the Elbe. 



3. The number of deputies from 

 these departments to the legislative 

 body shall be as follow : — 



For the department of the Zuyder 



Zee 4: 



• Mouths of the Maese. 4 



Upper Yssel 3 



Mouths of the Yssel . . 2 



