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ist.) A. Representation of the 
people shall be formed. 
2nd. For this end, 
(a) The Provincial Assemblies, 
where they ‘still exist with more 
or less. influence, are to be re- 
established and modelled accord- 
ing to the exigencies of the times. 
. (6) Where there are at present 
no Provincial Assemblies they are 
to be introduced. 
» 3rd. From the Provincial As- 
semblies, the Assembly of the 
Representatives of the Kingdom 
is to be chosen which will sit at 
Berlin. 
4, The functions of the National 
Representatives extend to the de- 
liberation upon all the objects of 
legislation which concern the per- 
sonal rights of the citizens and 
their property, including | tax- 
ation. 
5. A Commitiee isto be formed 
at Berlin without delay, which is 
to consist of experienced Officers 
of State, and inhabitants of the 
provinces. 
6. This committee shall employ 
itself. 
(a). On the organization of the 
Provincial Assemblies.. 
(4). The organization of the 
National Representation. 
(c). On the framing of a Con- 
stitution according to the princi- 
ples laid down, 
7. It shall meet on the Ist of 
September this year. 
8. Our Chancellor is charged 
with the execution of this decree, 
anc is to lay before us the labours 
of the Committee. 
He names the members of it, 
and presides at its meetings, but 
is authorized, in case of need, to 
name a Deputy in his room. 
Given under ourhand and Royal 
ANNUAL REGISTER; 1815. 
Seal. Done at Vienna, May 25, 
1815. 
_ (Signed) 
FREDERICK WILLIAM. 
(Countersigned) 
C. FLV. HARDENBERG. 
L. 8. 
Protest of the Spanish Ambassador 
against the Decisions of the Con- 
gress of Vienna. ! 
The undersigned, Ambassador 
of his Majesty the King of Spain, 
has’ remarked, that no mention 
appears in the Protocol, of that 
conference which took place yes- 
terday evening. He presumes, 
that, instead of a conference, it 
was rather an act of courtesy 
which Messrs. the Plenipotentia- 
ries of Austria, Great. Britain, 
France, Russia,and Prussia shew- 
ed towards him, in order to com- 
municate to him the act with 
which they have resolved to ter- 
minate their labours, and in 
which they, as he is told, have 
irrevocably agreed among them- 
selves alone respecting the rights 
of his Majesty the King of Spain, 
and his Majesty the King of 
Etruria, in Italy, as well as re- 
specting the singular recommen- 
dation made to his Catholic Ma- 
jesty, in an article of the treaty, 
respecting the cession of Olivenza 
to Portugal, an affair with which 
the Plenipotentiaries of the above 
powers must surely have inter- 
fered by mistake, since it has at 
no time become the Congress, and 
much less of any of its parts, to 
interfere’in that business. And 
as it is of the greatest import- 
ance, that either in the Protoeols, 
or in the diplomatic archives, 
some record should remain of 
a 
