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ip. ine system of imposts shall be |
the same thoughout the kingdom. The
taxes on landed property shall not ex
ceed one fifth of its income.
17. The system of the mint, and that
of weights and measures now adopted
in France, shall be established through
out the kingdom.
18. I he coin shall bear the arms of
Westphalia aiul the effigy of the king.
19. The number of ministers shall be
four, viz. One for justice and the inte
rior, one for war, one tor finances, com
merce and treasury ; and there shall be
a minister secretary of state.
20.1 he ministers shall be responsible,
each in their own department, for the
execution ot the laws, and the mandates
of the king.
21. The council of state shall be com
posed of at least 16 members and of
25 at most, appointed by the king and
removeable at pleasure. It shall be di
vided into three sections, viz. section of
justice and the interior, section of war9
section of commerce and finance.
inc states of the kingdom shall
Lie composed of one hundred members,
appointed by the colleges of the depart
ments ; viz. 70 members fhosen among
the freeholders, 15 among merchants
mul manufactures, and 15 among the
learned and other citizens who shall
have deserved well of the state. The
members of the states shall receive no
salary.
24-. They shall be renewed by one
third, every three years. The mem
bers whose term has expired may be re
elected again immediately.
25. The president of the states is.ap
pointed by the king.
2d. The states shall meet upon the
convocation ordered by the king. They
cannot be convoked, prorogued, ad
journed or disolved,but by the king.
2< • The territory shall be divided in
to departments, the departments into
districts, and. the districts into cantons.
&c.
. ^8* ^ “e departments shall l»e admi
nistered by a prelect.
21). I he code Napoleon shall form
the civil law of the kingdom of West
phalia, commencing the first of January
1808. J y
30. The conscription shall he a funda
mental law of the kingdom oi Westpha
lia. The enlisting for money on no ac
count can take place.
31. The foregoing constitution shall
be completed by the regulations of the
discussed in his state council. ..
32. The laws and regulations of pub
lic administrations shall be published
in the bulletin of the laws, and no other
form of publication shall be wanted to
render them obligatory.
Given in our palace ef Fountainbleau,
the 15th day of the month of Nov. in
the year 1807.
(Signed) Napoleon.
By the emperor.
The minister secretary of state,
(Signed) Hugues B. Maret.
REPORT.
The undersigned commissioners appoint
ed under the law of the United States,
entitled “■ An act to regulate the lay
ing out and making a road from Cum
berland, in the state of Maryland, to
the state oj Ohio," in addition to the
communications heretofore made, beg
leave furtfn r to report to the president
of the United States,
l hat, by the de lay of the answer
of the legislature ol Pennsylvania to the
application for permission to pass the
road thr ugh that state, thv commission
ers could not proceed to the business of
the road in the spring before vegetation
had so far advanced as to . render the
work of exploring and survevying dif
ficult and tedious, from which circum
stance it was postponed till the last au
tumn, when the business was again re
sumed ; that, in obedience to the speci
al instructions given them, the route
heretofore reported has been so chang
ed as to pass through Union Town, and
that they have completed the loca
tion, gradation and marking of the
route from Cumberland to Brownsville,
Bridgeport and the Monongahela river,
agreeably to a plat of the courses, dis
tances, and grades, in which is describ
ed the marks and mountains by which
the route is designated, and which is
herewith exhibited that by this plat
and measurement it will appear (when
compared with the road now travelled,)
th ere is a saving of four miles of dis
lance oetween ^umoeriana ana nrows
ville, on the new route. .
In the gradation of the surface of the
route (which became necessary to con
fine it within the limits prescribed by
the law) is ascertained the comparative
elevation and depression of different
points in the route, and taking a point
ten feet above the surface of low water
in the Potomac river at Cumberland,
as the horizon, the most prominent*
points are found to be elevated as fol
low, viz.
Feet & decimals.
Summit of Will’s mountain, 581.03
Western foot of ditto, 304.04
Summit of Savage mountain, 2022.20
Savage river, 1741.60
Summit of Little Savage m’n. 1900.40
First western water, 1669.90
Summit of Red hill, 1914.13
Summit of Meadow mountain, 2026.16
Little Yohogany, 1322.60
East fork of Shade run, 1538.92 i
Summit of Negro mountain, 2328.12
Western foot of ditto, 1360.50
White’s creek, 1195.50
Big Yohogany, 645.00
Summit of River hill west of
Yough, 1514.50
Beaver run, 1123.80
Summit of Laurel hill, 1550.16
Court-house in Union-town, 274.65"
Monongahela, at the mouth of
Dunlap’s creek, in Browns
ville, 10 feet above low wa
ter mark, . 119.26 '
The law requiring the commission
ers to report such parts of the route as are
laid on the old road as well as those on
new grounds, and to state those parts
which require the most immediate at- -
tention and amelioration,& the probable
expense oi making the same passable
in the most difficult parts and through
the whole distance j they have to state
that from the crooked and hilly course
of the road now travelled, the new route
could not be made to occupy any part of
it (except an intersection on Will’s
mountain, anotherat Jesse Tomlinson’s, ,
and a third near Big Youghogany, em
bracing not a mile of distance in the
whole) without unnecessary sacrifices of
distance and expence j that therefore,
an estimate must be made on the route,
as passing wholly through new grounds. .
in doing tnis tne commissioners leel •
great difficulty, as they cannot, with any
degree of precision, estimate the ex
pense of making it merely passable j
nor can they allow themselves to sup
pose that a less breadth than that menti
oned in the law was to be taken into the
calculation. •. The rugged deformity of
the grounds rendered it impossible to
lay a route within the grade limited by
law, otherwise than by ascending and
descending the hills obliquely, by which
circumstance a great proportion of the
route occupies the sides of hills which
cannot be safely passed on a road ofcom