On Civil Liberty and Self-Government
particular rights guaranteed by the state.
19th Century Theodore Dwight Woolsey EnglishArt. 60. The military in actual service, retired officers and soldiers, widows, officers and soldiers on pension, are to preserve their grades, honors and pensions.
Art. 61. The public debt is guaranteed. Every sort of engagement made by the state with its creditors is to be inviolable.
Art. 62. The old nobility retake their titles. The new preserve theirs. The king creates nobles at his pleasure; but he only grants to them rank and honors, without any exemption from the charges and duties of society.
Art. 63. The legion of honor is to be maintained. The king shall determine its internal regulations and the decorations.
Art. 64. The colonies are to be governed by particular laws.
Art. 65. The king and his successors shall swear, at their accession, in presence of the two chambers, to observe faithfully the present constitutional charter.
Art. 66. The present charter, and the rights it consecrates, shall be intrusted to the patriotism and courage of the national guard and all the citizens.
Art. 67. France resumes her colors. For the future there will be no other cockade than the tri-colored cockade.
Art. 68. All the creations of peers during the reign of Charles X. are declared null and void.
Article 23 of the charter will undergo a fresh examination during the session of 1831.
Art. 69. There will be provided successively by separate laws, and that with the shortest possible delay, for the following subjects:
The extension of the trial by jury to offences of the press, and political offences.
The responsibility of ministers and the secondary agents of government.
The re-election of deputies appointed to public functions with salaries.
The annual voting of the army estimates.
The organization of the national guards with the intervention of the national guards in the choice of their officers.
Provisions which insure, in a legal manner, the state of officers of each grade, by land and sea.
Departmental and municipal institutions founded upon an elective system.
Public instruction and the liberty of instruction.
The abolition of the double vote; the settling of the electoral conditions, and that of eligibility.
Art. 70. All laws and ordinances, inasmuch as they are contrary to the provisions adopted by the reform of the charter, are from this moment annulled and abrogated.
We give it in command to our courts and tribunals, administrative bodies, and all others, that they observe and maintain the present constitutional charter, cause it to be observed, followed and maintained, and in order to render it more known to all, they cause it to be published in all municipalities of the kingdom and every-where, where it will be necessary, and in order that this be firm and stable forever, we have caused our seal to be put to it.
Done at the Palais-Royal, at Paris, the 14th day of the month of August, in the year 1830.
By the king:
The Minister Secretary of the State for the department of the Interior.
Examined and sealed with the great seal:
The keeper of the seals, Minister Secretary of the State for the department of Justice.