GENERAL HISTORY. 



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ties, by our Keejjer of the Seals, 

 Minister Secretary of State for the 

 Department of Justice, by our 

 Minister of General Police, and 

 by the Sieurs Ravcz and Simeon, 

 Counsellors of State. 



Article I. The author, known 

 and residing in France, oF a print- 

 ed work, is alone responsible for 

 its contents. 



2. The author, known and re- 

 siding in France, of a printed 

 translation of a work, is respon- 

 sible for it. 



3. Tiie editor of a work of 

 which tlie author has died before 

 publication, or is not known, or 

 is not resident in France, is re- 

 sponsible for it. 



4. The printer is not respon- 

 sible except when the author, the 

 translatoi", or editor, are not 

 known, or do not reside in France ; 

 or where the author or translator 

 has not consented to the printing 

 of the work. 



5. If tlie author, the translator, 

 the editor, or the printer of a 

 work be not known, or do not 

 reside in Fiance, the bookseller, 

 and all others who vend or dis- 

 tribute the said work, are respon- 

 sible for it. 



6. Nevertheless, the authors, 

 translators, editors, and printers 

 of a work, which would directly 

 incite to crimes, and the booksel- 

 lers, and all otheis, who sell or 

 distribute it, are all ecjually re- 

 sponsible, and may be prosecuted 

 at the same time for ihe said work. 



7 A prosecution may be insti- 

 tuted for every work given to be 

 printed in the two following cases : 

 1st. Jf the declaration pre- 

 scribed by the law of the 4th of 

 October, 1814, be not made. 



?d. If the work, although the 

 declaration be made, contains a 

 direct incitement to crime 



8. Excepting these two cases, 

 there can be no prosecution for a 

 printed work, until a publication 

 shall have taken place, and the 

 distribution of the whole or of ])art 

 of the work, or the deposit made 

 in pursuance of the 14th article 

 of the law of the 21st October, 

 Id 14, are considered a publication. 



9. When a printed work shall 

 have been seized by virtue of the 

 15th article of the 2d title of the 

 law of the 2lst October, 1814, 

 the order of seizure, and the jyru- 

 ces verbal, shalL under pain of 

 nullity, be notified within 24 hours 

 to the party on whom the seizure 

 shall be made and transmitted, 

 within the same time by the King's 

 attorney to the Judge of Instruc- 

 tion. 



10. If in three days from the 

 notification of the proces verbal, 

 and in case the distribution of all, 

 or part of the work seized, may 

 not have been made, the respon- 

 sible accused person declaies that 

 he renounces the publication of it : 

 and if he consents that all the 

 copies of it shall be destroyed, the 

 suppression of the work, and the 

 destruction of the copies seized, 

 and of all those which may be 

 subsequently produced, shall be 

 ordeied by the tribunal, and the 

 jirosecution shall be no furtht-r 

 continued, unless the printed work 

 shall have dirtctly provoked (;r ex- 

 cited to crimes. 



11. The Judge of Instruction is 

 bound, within eight da\s from the 

 reception of the proces verbal of 

 seizure, to make his report to the 

 Chamber of the Council. 



12. If 



