Ordinance Against the Press
CHARLES, &c.
To all to whom these presents shall come, health.
On the report of our Council of Ministers, we have ordained and ordain as follows:―
Art. 1. The liberty of the periodical press is suspended.
2. The regulations of the articles 1st, 2nd, and 9th of the 1st section of the law of the 21st of October, 1814, are again put in force, in consequence of which no journal, or periodical, or semi-periodical writing, established, or about to be established, without distinction of the matters therein treated, shall appear either in Paris or in the departments, except by virtue of an authority first obtained from us respectively by the authors and the printer. This authority shall be renewed every three months. It may also be revoked.
3. The authority shall be provisionally granted and provisionally withdrawn by the prefects from journals and periodicals, or semi-periodical works, published or about to be published in the departments.
4. Journals and writings published in contravention of article 2 shall be immediately seized. The presses and types used in the printing of them shall be placed in a public depot under seals, or rendered unfit for use.
5. No writing below twenty printed pages shall appear, except with the authority of our Minister, Secretary of State for the Interior of Paris, and of the prefects in the departments. Every writing of more than twenty printed pages, which shall not constitute one single work, must also equally be published under authority only. Writings published without authority shall be immediately seized; the presses and types used in printing them shall be placed in a public depot, and under seals, or rendered unfit for use.
6. Memoirs relating to legal process, and memoirs of scientific and literary societies, must be previously authorized, if they treat in whole or in part of political matters, in which case the measures prescribed by article 5 shall be applicable.
7. Every regulation contrary to the present shall be without effect.
8. The execution of the present ordinance shall take place in conformity to article 4 of the ordinance of November 27, 1816, and of that which is prescribed in the ordinance of the 18th of January, 1817.
9. Our Secretaries of State are charged with the execution of this ordinance.
Given at Chateau St. Cloud, the 25th of July, of the year of Grace 1830, and the 6th of our reign.
Ordinance Annulling the Elections of the Deputies
CHARLES, &c.
To all to whom these presents shall come, &c.
Having considered Art. 50 of the Constitutional Charter; being informed of the manœuvres which have been practiced in various parts of our kingdom, to deceive and mislead the electors during the late operations of the electoral colleges; having heard our council; we have ordained and ordain as follows:―
Art. 1. The Chamber of Deputies of Departments is dissolved.
2. Our Minister, Secretary of State of the Interior, is charged with the execution of the present ordinance.
Given at St. Cloud, the 25th day of July, the year of Grace 1830, and the sixth of our reign.
Ordinance Abridging the Right of Election
CHARLES, &c.
To all those who shall see these presents, health.
Having resolved to prevent the return of the manœuvres which have exercised a pernicious influence on the late operations of the electoral colleges, wishing in consequence to reform according to the principles of the Constitutional Charter the rules of Election, of which experience has shown the inconvenience, we have recognized the necessity of using the right which belongs to us, to provide by acts emanating from ourselves for the safety of the state, and for the suppression of every enterprise injurious to the dignity of our crown. For these reasons, having hard our council, we have ordained and ordain―
Art. 1. Conformably to the articles 15, 36, and 30, of the Constitutional Charter, the Chamber of Deputies shall consist only of Deputies of Departments.
2. The electoral rate and the rate of eligibility shall consist exclusively of the sums for which the elector and the candidate shall be inscribed individually, as holders of real or personal property, in the roll of the land tax or of personal taxes.
3. Each department shall have the number of deputies allotted to it by the 36th article of the Constitutional Charter.
4. The deputies shall be elected, and the chamber renewed, in the form and for the time fixed by the 37th article of the Constitutional Charter.