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pensions of payment , and bankruptcies . The Code d * Instruction Criminelle , a very different but equally interesting division , explains the duties of all public officers connected with the judicial police , whether mayors , assistants of mayors ( adjoin t *) procureurs du roi % juge d instruction , &c . After prescribing the rules regarding evidence , it regulates the manner of appointing juries , and the questions which fall within their competency . Its further
dispositions relate to the mode and nature of appeals , and to the very unpopular courts authorized to try state offences , termed Cours Speciale under Bonaparte , and Cours Prevotale under the Bourbons . The Code"Penal describes the punishments awarded for offences in all their variety of gradation , from the penalties of the police correctionnelle , to the severest sentence of the law . All offences are classed under two general heads , —state offences , such as counterfeiting coin , resisting police officers , sedition ,
rebellion : and offences against individuals , as cRlumnv . false evibellion ; and offences against individuals , as calumny , false evidence , manslaughter , murder . The appendix to the Code Penal contains a law to indemnify the emigrants , dated 17 May , 1826 , which has given rise recently to much debate in the chamber of deputies ; and which has been materially altered ; a law relative to there pair of highways , or what in England are called parish roads ;* laws for the regulation of notaries , interest of
money , relatif k la Plaidoirie , pleadings in courts of justice , and regulating the profession of advocate ( avocat ) and the barristers ; the horrible law of sacrilege , passed 20 th April , 1825 , and ( he laws against the press and periodical journals * The Code ForesHer , passed in the third year of Charles the Tenth ' s reign , ( 1827 , ) attempts to reduce to rule that management , not only of the royal , but the national forests , and in some
cases even those belonging to private individuals , and to establish guards , fines , and other regulations , which , after all , must , and in most cases may best be left to the persons immediately interested in their conservation , and in the profits derivable therefrom , under the protection of such legislative enactments as our last English Trespass Act contains , for the protection of timber ,
coppice-woods , &c . &c . In France it is computed there are 17 , 000 , 000 of English acres of forest land , 3 , 700 , 000 of which are said to belong to the government , and which , according to the published accounts , do not make an annual return of more than 800 , 000 / ., or after the rate of Hule more than four shillings per acre—a result sufficiently indicative either of gross neglect or mismanagement , j The impertinent interference with the rights
? It will scarcel y be believed that more than ordinary repairs under this act , such as repairs of bridges , &c . cannot be- effected without the consent of different officers at a distance—so insatiable was the appetite of the Bourbons for the creation of patronage . f Abundant proof of this was afforded to the writer , when he afterwards crossed the Bocage , went through the national forest of Bersay , and lived for a fortnight in one of the romantic recesses of tbe vast forests of the Ardennes , several of which were for Bale .
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Notices of France * *• 10 T
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1833, page 101, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2608/page/33/
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