Memoirs To Illustrate The History Of My Time - Part 20
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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.