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communicate to the government information 
of the vacancy of fees, and the fteps which 
may have been taken for the government of 
vacant diocefes. 
XXXVIII. The vicar-general, who fhall 
govern during the vacancy, as well as the 
metropolitans and conftituent members of 
chapters, fhall fuffer no innovation to be in- 
troduced into the ufages and cuftoms of the 
diocefes, 
Title I11.—Of Worpoip. 
Article XXXIX. There fhall be only one 
liturgy, and one catechifm, for all the catho- 
lic churches of France. 
XL. Nocuré fhall appoint extraordinary 
public prayers in kis parifh, without the fpe- 
cial permiffion of the bifhop, 
XLI. No feftival, with the exception of 
the fabbath, fhall be eftablifhed without the 
permiffion of government. 
XLIL. The ecclefiaftics fhall ufe, in the 
performance of religious ceremonies, the 
habits. and ornaments fuitable to their titles. 
They fhall in no cafe, or under any pre- 
tence, aflume the colour and the diftinétive 
marks referved to the bifhops.  - 
XLII. All ecclefiaftics fhall drefs accord- 
ing to the French fafhion, and in black. 
The bifhops fhall add to this coftume the pal 
toral crofs, and violet ftockings. 
XLIV. Domeftic chapels and_ oratorios, 
for the accommodation of individuals, fhall not 
be eftablifhed without the exprefs permiflion 
of the government, granted on the applica- 
tion of the bifhop. 
XLV. No religious ceremony fhall be fo- 
lemnized without the temples confecrated to 
the catholic worfhip, in places deftined to 
different forms of worfhip. 
XLVI. The fame temple fha}l be exclu- 
fively confecrated to the fame fyftem of wor- 
fhip. 
XLVI. There hall be in the different 
cathedrals and parochial churches, a place 
{pecially appointed for the civil and- military 
authorities. 
XLVIII. The bifhop fhall concert with 
the prefe& the means of calling the faithful 
to religious worfhip by public bells, which are 
to be rung on no other occafion, without the 
\permiffion of the local police. 
XLIX. When the government fhall ap- 
point public prayers, the bifhops fhall concert 
with the prefect, and the military comman- 
dant of the place, the day, the hour, and the 
manner in which thefe regulations are to be 
carried into eff-&. 
L. The folemn inftru€tions known under 
the appellation of fermons, and thofe dittin- 
guifhed under the name de flations, at the time 
of Advent and Lent, fhall not be delivered 
but by priefts who have obtained the fpecial 
authority of the bifhop. 
LI. ‘The curés in the ordinary exercife of 
their parochial duties fhall pray for, and 
fhall caufe prayers to be offered up in behalf 
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of the profperity of the ! French republic, and 
the fafety of the French Confuls. 
LIf. They fhall introduce into their in- 
ftructions no cenfure, dire& or indire@, either 
of individuals or oF other forms of worthip 
authorized by the ftate. 
LIII. In their pulpits they fhall introduce 
no publication foreign to the exercife of pub-_ 
lic worfhip, till it has at leaft received the 
authority of the government. 
LIV. ‘The nuptial benedi@ion fhall be. 
given to thofe only who thall prove in due 
form, that their marriage has been contracted 
before a civil magittrate. 
LV. The regifters kept hy the minifters 
of religion, not being founded upon any thing 
but the mined ite of the facraments, are 
in no cafe to fupply the regifters appointed. 
by the law to afcertain the civil condition of 
the French people. 
“LVI. In. all ecclefiatical and religious 
aéts, the equino@tial calendar eftablifhed by 
the laws of the republic is to be. continued, 
and particular days fhall retain the names 
which they poffels in the fol{titial calendar, 
LVIf. The day of repofe for the public 
funCtionaries fhall be Sunday. 
Title V,—Of the Arrangement of Archbi- 
Jbops, Bifhops, Parifbes, Edifices appro- 
priated to public Worfhip, and the Sala- 
ries of the Clergy. 
Seétion I—Of the Arrangement of Archbifpops 
and Bifbops. 
Article LVIIT. There fhall be in France, 
ten archbifhops and fifty Die: 
LIX. ‘The arrangement of the archbithop- 
rics and diocefes fhall be made in Fonformnity, 
to the fubjoined pian. 
Section IlL—Of the A ranzement of Parifhes. 
Article LX. There thall be at lead one 
parifh within the jurifdiction of a juttice of 
peace. There fhall be befides eftablifhed as 
many fubfidiary places of worfhip as circume 
ftances may require. 
* LXI. Each bifhop, in concert with the 
prefect, fhall regulate the number and extent 
of thefe fubfidiary eftablifiments : the plan 
formed fhall be fubmitted to the infp eétion 
of the government, and fhall not be put into 
execution without its authority. 
LXII. No por'ion of tke French territory 
fhall be formed into a diftrict, fubje@ to the 
adminiftration of a cure, or to any fubfidiary 
eftablifhment, without the exprefs authority 
of government. 
LXIII, The priefs ferving in thefe fub. 
fidiary eftablifhmaents are to be named by the 
bifhops. 
Section III.—Of the Salaries of the Clergy. 
Article LXIV. ‘The falary of the arch- 
bifhops is to be 15,006 francs (about 6251. 
fterling.) 
LXV. The bifhops are to receive 10,000 
francs (about 420 fterling.) 
LXVI. The curés ave divided into two 
claffes. The falary of the curés of the frt 
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