5()G ANNUAL REGISTER, 1810. 



For the department of East Fries- are to be present at the oath of 



land 2 fealty to the emperors at their 



West Ems 2 coronation, 



. East Ems <... 2 10. A communication shall be 



Upper Ems 4 formed with the Baltic by a canal, 



Mouth of the Weser.. 3 which, extending from the canal of 



^— Mouths of the Elbe. . 4 Hamburgh to Lubeck, shall make 



4, These deputies shall be ap- a communication between the Elbe 

 pointed in the year 1811, and and the Weser, the Weser and the 

 shall be renewed in the year to Eras, and the Ems and the Rhine. 



which the series belongs, in which 



the department to which they 



belong shall be placed. m. Report concerning the Mar- 



5. These departments shall be ^f of Buonaparte. 

 placed m the foUowmg series or a ^ r 



the legislative body, namely: — In the year 1809, and on the 



First series, Mouths of the Maese 15th day of December, at nine 



and West Ems ; second series, o'clock in the evening, we, Jean 



Friesland and the Upper Ems ; Jaques Regis Cambaceres, prince 



third series, the Zuyder Zee and arch-chancellor of the Empire, 



East Ems; fourth series, Mouths duke of Parma, exercising the 



of the Yssel, and Mouths of the functions prescribed to us by title 



Elbe ; fifth series, Upper Yssel, the second of the fourteenth arti- 



and Mouths of the Weser. cle of the statute of the imperial 



C. For the departments of the family, and in consequence of or- 



Zuyder Zee, Mouths of the Maese, ders addressed to us by his majes- 



Upper Yssel, Mouths of the Yssel, ty the emperor and king, in his 



Friesland, and West Ems, there private letter, dated that day, of 



shall be an imperial court of jus- the following tenor : — 



tice, whose seat shall be at the *^ Paris, Dec. 15, 1809. 



Hague. "My Cousin, — Ourdesireis,that 



7. For the departments of East you repair this day, at nine o'clock 

 Ems, Upper Ems, the Weser, and in the evening, to our grand cabinet 

 the Mouths of the Elbe, there shall of the palace of theThuilleries, at- 

 be an imperial court of justice, tended by the civil secretary of 

 whose seat shall be at Hamburgh, state of our imperial family, to re- 



8. In the departments which ceive from us and the empress, our 

 belong to the jurisdiction of the dear consort, a communication of 

 imperial court of justice of the great importance. For this purpose, 

 Hague, there shall be a council of we have ordered thispresentprivate 

 senators ; and another shall be letter should be sent to you. We 

 erected in the departments which pray God to have you, my cousin, 

 belongtothe jurisdictionof theim- in his holy and blessed keeping." 

 perialcourtofjusticeatHamburgh. On the back is written: — "To 



9. The cities of Amsterdam, our cousin the prince arch-chan- 

 Rotterdam, Hamburgh, Bremen, cellor, duke of Parma." 



and Lubeck, are placed among the Weaccordinglyproceededto the 



number of good cities ; theirmayors hall of the throne of the palace of 



