22 CULTURE OF THE SUGAR BEET. 



Section III. — Manufacture. 



Art. 5. There shall be accorded throughout our entire empire 500 licenses for the 

 manufacture of beet-root sugar. 



Art. 6. These licenses shall bo accorded of preference — 



To all proprietors of factories or refineries ; 



To all who have manufactured sugar during 1811 ; 



To all who have made preparations and expenditures for the establishment of fac- 

 tories for work in 1812. 



Art. 7. Of these licenses there shall be accorded of right, one to each department. 



Art. 8. Prefects shall write to all proprietors of refineries, in order that they may 

 make their submissions for the establishment of the said factories at the close of 1812. 

 In default on the part of proprietors of refineries to have made their submissions prior 

 to March 15, or at the latest April 15, they shall be considered as having renounced 

 the preference accorded them. 



Art. 9. Licenses shall include an obligation on the part of those who shall obtain 

 them to establish a factory capable of producing at least 10,000 kilograms (22,000 

 pounds) of raw sugar in 1812-'13. 



Art. 10. Each individual who, having received a license, shall have actually manu- 

 factured nearly 10,000 kilograms of raw sugar resulting from the crop of 1812 to 1813 

 shall have the privilege and assurance, by way of encouragement, of being subject to 

 no tax, or octroi, upon the product of his manufacture for the space of four years. 



Art. 11. Each individual who shall perfect the manufacture of sugar in such a 

 manner as to obtain a larger quantity from the beet; or who shall invent a more 

 simple and „ economical method of manufacture, shall obtain a license for a longer 

 time, with the assurance that no duty nor octroi shall be placed upon the product of 

 his manufacture during the continuance of his license. 



Section IV. — Creation of four Imperial Factories. 



Art. 12. Four imperial beet-sugar factories shall be established in 1812 under the 

 care of our minister of the interior. 



Art. 13. These factories shall be so arranged as to produce with the crop of 1812 to 

 1813, 2,000,000 kilograms of raw sugar. 



We find one of the practical results of this generous decree in the 

 announcement made by Oharpentier freres of Valenciennes, Departe- 

 nient du Nbrd {Journal de V Empire of December 2, 1812), that they had 

 for sale 12,000 kilograms (26,400 pounds) of beet-root sugar manufact- 

 ured from the crop of that year, and during the first two months of 

 work. The large quantity of beets they still had in store assured them, 

 isfe was stated, for the end of April, 1813, a product of 60,000 kilograms 

 (132,000 pounds), which they offered to sell as it should be made. 



But these results are more fully described by the minister of the inte- 

 rior, in his report upon the situation of the empire in the beginning of 

 1813, in which under the head of new industries he says : 



To replace in our consumption the sugar, indigo, and cochineal of the colonies ; to 

 find in the south of Europe and at home the cottons and soda to supply our manufac- 

 tures seemed impossible. It was ardently wished for, and the impossibility disap- 

 peared before our efforts. 



During this year the manufacture of sugar which is extracted from the beet root 

 will give us 7,700,000 pounds of this staple. It is prepared in 334 factories, all of 

 which are in actual activity. 



After numerous trials, processes are finally employed by which beet-root sugar will 

 not cost more than 15 cents per pound to the manufacturer. Mr. Bonmatin, in- 



