GENERAL HISTORY. 



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19 and ?0< [These articles ex- 

 tend to sentence prbnovinced a- 

 gainst a work, and to all future 

 impressions and publications of 

 the same.] 



21. In cases of crimes and mis- 

 demeanours, the annulling of the 

 proces verbal of seizure for errors 

 of forms, shall not be an obstacle 

 to a farther prosecution of tlie 

 work. It shall be the same with 

 regard to the accused, if the facts 

 imputed to him be otherwise prov- 

 ed by the process. 



■22. Every individual wlio feels 

 himself aggrieved by the abuse of 

 the liberty of tlie press, may pre- 

 fer a complaint before the King's 

 Attorney- General, or the Judge 

 of Instruction, either in tlie place 

 of his residence, if tlie work has 

 been theie sold or distributed, or 

 from the place of the residence of 

 the accused, or one of them. 



'23 and '24 refer to the juiisdic- 

 tion of Courts. 



2.5. Tiie pui lie action for an 

 abuse of the liberty of the press 

 is interdicted aftei' the revolution 

 of a year, reckoning from the day 

 in which the writing shall have 

 been deposited, in pursuance of 

 the 14th Art. of the law oftheSl.st 

 Oct. IS 1 4. The public action, if 

 there has been no deposit, and the 

 civil action, in all cases, are not 

 ))roliibited until after the time ap- 

 ])oiiited by the Code of Criminal 

 Instruction. 



26. The law of the 2Sth of 

 Februaiy, IS 17, relative to writ- 

 ings .seized, and all the disposi- 

 tions of anterior laws contrary to 

 the present, are and remain re- 

 pealed. 



2/. The journals and other pe- 

 riodical woiks which treat of poli- 



VoL LIX. 



tical subjects and intelligenee, 

 shali not, until the 1st of January. 

 1821, appear without the autho- 

 rity of tlie King. 



(Signed) Louis. 



LAW FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF 

 RELIGION. 



The important concern whicli 

 had been agitaied between tiie 

 Papal court and that of Paris, i e- 

 lative to the establisiiment of tf;e 

 Catholic religion in the latter, 

 was laid before the Ciiamber of 

 Dejiuties by M. Laine, minister 

 of tlie interior in the form of the 

 project of a law proposed by tiie 

 King in the following articles. 



Louis, &c. 



To all present and to come, 

 greeting. We have ordained and 

 do 07"dain, that the projtt oF the 

 law, the tenour of which follows, 

 sliall be presented to tlie Chamber 

 of Deputies by our Ministers Se- 

 cretaries of State fo! the Dejiarr- 

 ment of Fcneign Afiairs and of 

 the Interior, by the Sieurs Count 

 Beugnot, Minister of State, and 

 Count I'ortalis, Counsellor of State, 

 whom we charge to develope its 

 motives, and sujipoit its discus- 

 sion : — 



Article I. — Conformably with 

 the Conco)dat passed between 

 Fianois I. aid Leo. X., the King 

 alone appoints, by virtue of a 

 right inherent in his crown, to the 

 Archl)islio]>ricks and Bi.shopiicks 

 tlirough the \\h(.le extent of his 

 kingdom. The Bishops and Arch- 

 bi--hops rejiair to the Pope to ob- 

 tain canonical institution, accoid- 

 ing to tlie forms established by 

 ancient usage. 



II The concordat of the l.'ith 

 July, 1801, cea.ses to have its effect 



[I] from 



