22 INDIRECT BENEFITS OF SUGAR-BEET CULTURE. 



ART. 2. One hundred students shall be attached to these schools, viz, 40 at that 

 of Messrs. Barruel & Chappelet, and 15 at each of those at Wachenheim, Douai, Stras- 

 bourg, and Castelnaudary; total, 100. 



ART. 3. These students shall be selected from among students in medicine, phar- 

 macy, and chemistry. 



SECTION II. Culture of beets. 



ART. 4. Our minister of the interior shall take measure to cause to be sown through- 

 out our Empire 100,000 metrical arpents (150,000 acres) of beets. The conditions of 

 the distribution of the culture shall be printed and sent to the prefects previous to 

 February 15. 



SECTION III. Manufacture. 



ART. 5. There shall be accorded throughout our entire Empire 500 licenses for the 

 iij..nufacture of beet-root sugar. 



ART. 6. These licenses shall be 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 

 factories for work in 1812. 



ART. 7. Of these licenses 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 secured a license, shall have actually man- 

 ufactured 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 manu- 

 facture 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 (4,409,200 pounds) of raw sugar. 



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