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Article 8. The commission sliall also, before the same date, fix upon the 

 places most convenient for the establishment of four experimental schools 

 for giving instruction upon the extraction of indigo from the lees of woad, 

 according to the processes approved by the commission. 



Article 9. Our minister of the interior shall make known to the prefects 

 in what places these schools shall be formed, and to which pupils destined 

 to this manufacture should be sent. Proprietors and farmers who may wish 

 to attend a course of lectures in said experimental schools shall be admitted 

 thereto. 



Article 10. Messrs. Barruel and Isuard, who have brought to perfection 

 the processes for extracting sugar from the beet root, shall be specially 

 charged with the direction of two of the six experimental schools. 



Article 11. Our minister of the interior shall, in consequence, cause to be 

 paid the sum necessary for the formation of the said establishment, which 

 sum shall be charged to the fund of 1,000,000 francs ($200,000) in the budget 

 of 1811, at the disposal of the said minister for the encouragement of beet- 

 root sugar and woad indigo. 



Article 12. From 1st of January, 1813, and upon a report to be made to 

 our minister of the interior, t' e sugar and indigo of the two Indies shall be 

 prohibited, and considered as merchandise of English manufacture, or pro- 

 ceeding from English commerce. 



Article 13. Our minister of the interior is charged with the execution of 

 the present decree. 



The following decree shows that in 1S12 the subject was still 

 under consideration : 



SECTION I.— School for 3Iatiufacture of Beet-Root Sugar. 



Article 1. The factory of Messrs. Barrtiel and Chappelet, plain of Vertus, 

 and those established at Wacheuheim, department of Mont-Tonnere, at 

 Douai, Strasbourg, and at Castelnaudary, are established as special schools 

 for the manufacture of beet-root sugar. 



Article 2. One hundred students shall be attached to these schools, viz : 

 40 at that of Messrs. Barruel and Chappelet, and 15 at each of those at 

 Wachenheim, Douai, Strasbourg, and Castelnaudary; total, 100. 



Article 3. These students shall be selected from among tte students in 

 medicine, pharmacy and chemistry. 



Section II. — Ctdture of Beets. 



Article 4. Our minister of the interior shall take measures to cause to be 

 sown throughout our empire 100,000 metrical arpents of beets. The condi- 

 tions of the distribution of the culture shall be printed and sent to the pre- 

 fects previous to February 15. 



Section III. — Manufacture. 



Article 5. There shall be accorded throughout our entire empire 500 

 licenses for the manufacture of beet-root sugar. 



