1802.] 
Limoges—la Creufe, la Correze, la 
Haute Vienne. 
Tour s——Archbifbopric—Indre- -et- Tee 
Le Mans—Sarthe, Mayenne. 
Angets—Maine-et-Loire. 
Nantes—Loire-Inferieure. 
Rennes—lIlle-et- Vilaine, 
Vannes—le Morbihan, 
Saint Brieux—Cotes-du-Nord. 
Quimper—le Finiftere. 
Rouen—<archbi fhopric—la Seine-Infetieure. 
Coutances—la Manche. 
Bayeux—le Calvados. 
Seez—1l’ Orne. 
Evreux—!’Eure. 
Articles relative to the Proteftant Religion. 
Title I—General Difpofitions applicable to all 
Frotefiant Communions, 
Article I. No individual fhall officiate as 
a minifter of religion who is not by birtha 
Frenchman. 
II, Neither the Proteftant churches nor 
their miniffers fhall have any ‘connexion with 
a foreign power or authority. 
III. The paftors and minifters of the dif- 
ferent Proteftant communions fhall pray for 
the profperity of the French Republic and the 
fafety of the Confuls. 
{V. No doétrinal decifion or formulary, 
under the title of a Confe/fion, or under any 
other title, fhall be publifhed or become a 
fubje& of inftruction before its publication 
has been authorifed by the government. 
V. No change fhall take place in the 
forms of their dicipline without the fame au- 
thority. 
VI. The council of ftate fhall take cogni- 
zance of all the plans formed by their minif- 
ters, and of all the diffenfions which may 
arife among them. 
VII. It fhall be underftood, that to the 
fupport of paftors of confiftorial churches, 
the property of thefe churches fhall be ap- 
plied, as well as the oblations eftablifhed.by 
ufage and Ly pofitive regulations. - 
VIII. The regulations applied to the fpe- 
cific articles of the Catholic worfhip refpeét- 
ing the liberty of endowments, and the na- 
ture of the property which can be the objet 
of them, fhall be common to the Proteftant 
churches. 
IX. There fhall be two academies or femi- 
Maries in the eaft of France for the inftru€tion 
of the minifters of the Confeflion of Augf- 
ee 
. There fhall be a feminary at Geneva 
Piss the inftruétion of the minifters of the Re- 
formed Churches. 
XI. The profeffors in all the academies or 
feminaries fhall be nominated by the Chief 
-Conful. 
X11 No perfon fhall be ele&ted a minifter 
or paftor of any church of the Confeifion of 
Augfburg, who has not ftudied during a fixed 
period in one of the French feminaries ap- 
pointed for minifters of this perfuafion, and. 
Montaty Mac. No, 87. 
State of Public Affairs in May, 1802. 
4.75 
who fhall not produce a certificate in due form 
of his capacity and regular conduét during the 
continuance of his ftudies. 
XIIi. No perfon is to be elected a minifter 
or paftor of the Reformed Church without 
having ftudied in the feminary of Geneva, 
and without producing a certificate of the 
defcriptions pointed out in the preceding ar- 
ticle, 
XIV. The regulations refpe€ting the ad- 
miniftration and internal police of thefe femi- 
naries, the number and the qualifications of 
the profeffors, the mode of inftruGtion, the 
fubjeéts which-are taught, together with the 
form of the certificates of application, good 
conduét, and capacity, are to be approved of 
by the government, 
TITLE Ii. 
Seétion I.—Of the Reformed Churches. —Of the 
general Organization of thefe Churches. 
Art. XV. The Reformed Churches of 
France fhall have paftors, local confiftories, and 
fynods. 
XVI. There fhall be a confiftorial church 
for every 6000 individuals of the fame com- 
munion. 
XVII. Five confiftorial churches fhall form 
a fynod. 
Seétion II. —Of Paffors and local Confiftories. 
Art. XVIII. The confiftory of each church. 
fhall be compofed of the paftor or paftors offi- 
ciating in that church, and of a certain nume 
ber of aged and refpectable laymen chofen 
from among that clafs of citizens paying the 
zreateft fhare of public contributions: their 
number fhall not be under ten nor above 
twelve. 
XIX, The number of minifters or paftors | 
in one confiftorial church fhall not be aug- 
mented without the authority of the govern- 
ment. 
XX. The members of the confiftory thall 
watch over the maintenance of difcipline, the 
~ application of the property of the church, as 
well as the funds arifing from charitable con- 
tributions. 
XXI. The paftor, or the oldeft of the pat 
tors, fhall be the prefident of the confiftorial 
affembles: the office of fecretary fhall be 
filled by one of the elders. 
XXII. The ordinary confiftorial affemblies 
fhall continue to be held on the days pointed 
out by long praétice. 
The extraordinary affemblies fhall not be 
held without the permiffion of the fub-prefeét, 
or of the mayor in his abfence. 
XXIII. Every two years one half of the 
elders of the confifiory fhall be renewed. At 
this period the elders in office fhall fix upon 
an equal number of Proteftant citizens, heads 
of families, and chofen from among thofe 
paying the largeft contribution to the {tate in 
the commune where the confiftory is fituated, 
and proceed to a new election: thofe going out 
are capable of being re-elected. 
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