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Art. 3. They shall be obliged to give up the secret of their processes, which shall be 

 rendered public, and be sent to all the prefects of our grape-growing departments. 



Art. 4. From January 1. 1811, at the latest, the sugar of grapes shall replace in all 

 public establishments the sugar of canes. 



Art. 5. Our minister of the interior shall recommend to the prefects to propagate 

 and encourage the establisnient of factories for either grape sirup or concrete grape 

 sugar, so that in the coming year the inestimable advantages of this precious discovery 

 shall make itself felt for the good of all our people and the interests of our commerce. 



The same commission to whom was submitted for examination the 

 samples of sirup and sugar produced by Messrs. Proust and Fouques 

 were directed by the minister of the interior to prepare detailed instruc- 

 tions upon the methods to be followed for the successful and profitable 

 extraction of sirup and concrete sugar from grapes, and the result of 

 the work they at once entered upon, a copy of which may be found in 

 the Aloniteur of August 25, 1S10, was printed and distributed through- 

 out the grape-growing departments of France, in company with the fol- 

 lowing circular letter to the prefects of those departments, under date 

 of August IS, 1810: 



Mo>~sieue le pretet : Kis Majesty the Emperor desires to give an impulse to the 

 manufacture of sugar and sirup from grapes, and he has ordered that there be pre- 

 pared to this effect simple instructions indicating the best processes to follow. He 

 wishes that the instructions prepared by the most celebrated savants, and generally 

 distributed, may lead proprietors to make sirup and sugar for their own uses, and 

 place manufacturers in the way of making it in the surest and most economical man- 

 ner, and completely supplying the markets with products from the nest vintage. 



I send you several copies of these instructions. Be so good as to distribute them 

 to your officers who will make the best use of them, and cause them to be printed in 

 the journal of your department. 



You must not content yourself with causing the description of the process of man- 

 ufacture of sugar and sirup from grapes to be distributed to even the smallest com- 

 munes ; you shall stimulate the zeal of your officers ; you shall promise and accord 

 prizes to those who shall have made the most of sugar and sirup of the best quality. 

 I will supply, upon your requisition, the funds you may dispose of. 



I also invite you to immediately confer with directors of hospitals and other chari- 

 table establishments of your department, that they in turn may confer with farmers, 

 proprietors, and pharmacists who may desire to make sirups and sugars, and arrange 

 with these persons such markets as will assure the sale of the products of this year. 

 You shall preside over these arrangements, and take care that, without injuring the 

 interests of the poor, there may be all-sufficient encouragement for manufacturers. 



You shall address to me a table of the quantities of sugars and ordinary sirups an- 

 nually consumed in each hospital, and of the presumed consumption of the coming 

 year in sirups and sugars of grapes, with indications of the markets which have been 

 recorded. 



The subprefects and mayors will, I hope, second you in all your efforts. You shall 

 make known to me those functionaries and special persons who shall be most dis- 

 tinguished in this sphere of usefulness which is open to them. I shall report their 

 efforts and their success, as well as your own, to the Emperor. 



Let manufacturing establishments multiply everywhere. Let it be considered, M. le 

 PreTet, that this is a sort of war we are making against the enemies of tbe Continent, 

 and which his Majesty considers, more than any other sovereign, worthy of recompense 

 to those who make themselves prominent in the ranks. 



Count MONTALIYET, 



Minister of the Interior. 



