THE FIRST ELECTION IN FRANCE. Paris, Monday, March 6., 11 a.m.
The following is the decree of the Provisional Government relating to to the elections. There will be one deputy for every 40,000 individuals, and fifteen for the colonies: The provisional government, wishing to deliver at as early a period as possible into the hands of definitive government those powers they now exert in the interest, and by the command of the people, decree : Art 1. The electoral cantonal assemblies are convocated for the 9tb April next to choose the representatives of the people, at the national assembly, which is to dictate the constitution. Art 2. The election will have for its basis the population. Art 3. The total number of the representatives of the people will be nine hundred, including therein Algeria and the French colonies. Art 4. They will be divided among the departments in the proportion indicated in a table subjoined. Art 5. The votes will be direct and universal. Art 6. All Frenchmen who have attained their twenty-first year, and who have resided for six months in a commune, are electors ; providing they are neither suspended in, nor deprived of, the exercise of their civic rights. Art 7. All Frenchmen who have attained their twenty-fifth year, and who are neither suspended in, nor deprived of their civic rights, are eligible. Art 8. The voting will be by ballot. Art 9. All electors will vote at the chef lieu of the canton, by scrutin and list. Each bulletin will contain as many names as there shall be representatives to choose in the department. No one can be named representative of the people unless he has two thousand votes. Art 10. Each representative of the people will receive an indemnity of 25 francs per diem during the time of the session. Art 1 1. An instruction of the Provisional Government will regulate the details relative to the execution of the present decree. Art 12. The National Constituent Assembly will open on the 20th April. Art 13. The present decree shall be immediately sent into every department, and published and posted in every commune of the republic.
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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 313, 29 July 1848, Page 2
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358THE FIRST ELECTION IN FRANCE. Paris, Monday, March 6., 11 a.m. New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 313, 29 July 1848, Page 2
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