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Article 6. These licenses shall be accorded of preference to all proprietors 

 of factories and refineries; to all who have manufactured sugar during 1811; 

 to all who have made preparations and expenditures for the establishment of 

 factories for work in 1813. 



Article 7. Of these licenses there shall be accorded of right one to each 

 department. 



Article 8. Prefects shall write to all proprietors of refineries in order that 

 they make their submissions tor the establishment of said factories at the 

 close of 1813. In default of the proprietors of refineries to have made their 

 submissions prior to March 15, or at the latest April 15, they shall be con- 

 sidered as having renounced the preference accorded them. 



Article 9. Licenses sball include an obligation on the part of those who 

 shall receive them to establish a factory capable of producing at least 10,000 

 kilograms (28,000 pounds) of raw sugar in 1812-13. 



Article 10. Each individual who, having received a license, shall have 

 actually manufactured nearly 10,000 kilograms of raw sugar resulting from 

 the crop of 1813 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. 



Article 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 or uctroi shall be 

 placed upon the product of his manufacture during the continuance of his 

 license. 



Section IV. — Creation of Four Imperial Factories. 



Article 12. Four imperial btet-sugar factories shall be established in 1813 

 under the care of our minister of the interior. 



Article 13. These factories shall be so arranged as to produce with the 

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



Under this stimulus io 1813, 334: factories prepared 7,700,000 

 pounds of beet sugar. The industry developed rapidly under the 

 fostering care of Napoleon, until Jais downfall. With the over- 

 throw of the monarch, all of the factories were wrecked except 

 one. The high duties imposed by the new government soon 

 again made the business profitable ; factories were again opened, 

 and Irom that time to the present it has received no check of 

 serious importance. The following table will show the condition 

 of this industry in 1873, 1874 and 1875 : 



