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XIX. Inielligence and Miscellaneous Articles. 

 Restoration of the Gregorian calendar in-franck. 



-t>r a decree of the French conservative senate, the new 

 calendar is to be abolished, and the old one substituted in 

 its stead. The following is an extract respecting this 

 change from the registers of the senate, of the 9th of Sep- 

 tember : 



The conservative senate, assembled to the number of 

 members prescribed by the 90th article of the act of the 

 constitution, Frimaire 22, year 8 ; 



Having seen the project of the senatus-consultum drawn 

 up according to the form prescribed by the 57th article of 

 the constitution, of Thermidor 16, year 10; 



Having heard, on the motives of the said project, the 

 orators of government, and the report of the special com- 

 mission appointed on the 15th of Fructidor, year 13, de- 

 crees as follows : 



Art. I. Counting from the 1 1th of Nivose next, Jan. 1, 

 1S06, the Gregorian calendar shall be employed throughout 

 the whole of the French empire. 



Art. n. The present senatus-consultum shall be trans- 

 mitted by a message to his imperial majesty. 



The president and secretaries, 

 (Signed) Francis (dk Neufchateau) president. 

 CoLAUD and Porcher, secretaries. 

 Seen and sealed, 



The Chancellor of the Senate (Signed) Laplace. 



The report made to the senate, in the sitting of Septem- 

 her 9, 1805, by the senator Laplace, in name of a special 

 commission appointed to examine the project of the senatus- 

 consultum in regard to the re-establishment of the Grego- 

 rian calendar : 



" SENATORS, 



" The project of the senatus-consultum which was pre- 

 icnlcd to you in the last sitting, and on which you are going 

 to deliberate, h;is for its object the restoration in France of 

 the Gregorian calendar, reckoning from the 1 st of .January 

 Jb06. Jt is not necessary at present to examine which of 

 all the calendars possiblf! is the most natural and the most 

 simple ; we shall only say, that it is neither the one we are 

 about to abandon, nor that which we propose to resume. 

 'Ific orator of govtrnmi^nt has explained to yon with great 

 F 4 care 



