Memoirs To Illustrate The History Of My Time Part 20

No. IX.

TABLE OF THE PRINc.i.p.aL REFORMS EFFECTED IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF FRANCE FROM 1816 TO 1820.

MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR (M. LAINe).

_From May, 1816, to December, 1818._

_Sept. 4th, 1816._--Decree for the reorganization of the Polytechnic School.

_Sept. 25th, 1816._--Decree to authorize the Society of French Missions.

_Dec. 11th, 1816._--Decree for the organization of the National Guards of the Department of the Seine.

_Dec. 23rd, 1816._--Decree for the inst.i.tution of the Royal Chapter of St. Denis.

_Feb. 26th, 1817._--Decree relative to the administration of the Public Works of Paris.

_Ditto, ditto._--Decree for the organization of the Schools of Arts and Trades at Chalons and Angers.

_March 12th, 1817._--Decree on the administration and funds of the Royal Colleges.

_March 26th, 1817._--Decree authorizing the presence of the Prefects and Sub-Prefects at the General Councils of the Department or District.

_April 2nd, 1817._--Decree to regulate Central Houses of Confinement.

_Ditto, ditto._--Decree to regulate the conditions and mode of carrying out the royal authority for legacies or donations to Religious Establishments.

_April 9th, 1817._--Decree for the a.s.sessment of 3,900,000 francs, destined to improve the condition of the Catholic Clergy.

_Ditto, ditto._--Decree for the suppression of the Secretaries-General of the Prefectures, except only for the Department of the Seine.

_April 16th, 1817._--Three Decrees to regulate the organization of, and persons employed in the Conservatory of Arts and Trades.

_Sept. 10th, 1817._--Decree upon the system of the Port of Ma.r.s.eilles, with regard to Custom-house Duties and Storehouses.

_Nov. 6th, 1817._--Decree to regulate the progressive reduction of the number of Councillors in each Prefecture.

_May 20th, 1818._--Decree to increase Ecclesiastical Salaries, particularly those of the Curates.

_June 9th, 1818._--Decree on the discontinuance of Compositions for Taxes payable at the Entrance of Towns.

_July 29th, 1818._--Decree for the establishment of Savings Banks, and Provident Banks, in Paris.

_Sept. 30th, 1818._--Decree which removes from his Royal Highness _Monsieur_, while leaving him the honorary privileges, the actual command of the National Guard of the Kingdom, to give it back to the Minister of the Interior, and the Munic.i.p.al Authorities.

_Oct. 7th, 1818._--Decree respecting the use and administration of Commons, or Town property.

_Oct. 21st, 1818._--Decree respecting the premiums for the encouragement of the Maritime Fisheries.

_Dec. 17th, 1818._--Decree relative to the organization and administration of the Educational Establishments called _Britannic_.

COUNT DECAZES.

_From December, 1818, to February, 1820._

_Jan. 13th, 1819._--Decree to arrange public exhibitions of products of industry.--The first, to take place on the 25th of August, 1819.

_Jan. 27th, 1819._--Decree for creating a Council of Agriculture.

_Feb. 14th, 1819._--Decree for the encouragement of the Whale Fishery.

_March 24th, 1819._--Decree introducing various reforms and improvements in the School of Law, at Paris.

_April 9th, 1819._--Decree appointing a Jury of Manufacturers to select for reward the artists who have made the greatest progress in their respective trades.

_April 10th, 1819._--Decree relative to the inst.i.tution of the Council-General of Prisons.

_April 19th, 1819._--Decree to facilitate the public sale of merchandise by auction.

_June 23rd, 1819._--Decree to reduce the period of service of the National Guard of Paris.

_June 29th, 1819._--Decree relative to holding Jewish Consistories.

_Aug. 23rd, 1819._--Two Decrees upon the organization and privileges of the General Council of Commerce and Manufacture.

_Aug. 25th, 1819._--Decree relative to the erection of 500 new Chapels of Ease.

_Nov. 25th, 1819._--Decree relative to the organization and system of teaching of the Conservatory of Arts and Trades.

_Dec. 22nd, 1819._--Decree relative to the organization and system of the Public Treasury of Poissy.

_Dec. 25th, 1819._--Decree relative to the mode of Collation, and the system of public Bursaries in the Royal Colleges.

_Dec. 29th, 1819._--Decree authorizing the foundation of a permanent asylum for old men and invalids, in the Quartier du gros Caillon.

_Feb. 4th, 1820._--Decree for the regulation of public carriages throughout the Kingdom.

MINISTRY OF WAR (MARSHAL GOUVION ST. CYR).

_From September, 1817, to November, 1819._

_Oct. 22nd, 1817._--Decree for the organization of the Corps of Geographic Engineers of War.