moned in assemblies on the 11th and 12th of the present month of March.

"In the year eighteen hundred and sixty, this 15th day of the month of March;

"The Supreme Court of Cassation, meeting in plenary session in its public audience chamber located in the Palazzo della Signoria in pursuance of the decree of the 1st instant, for the purpose of ascertaining the results of the universal suffrage expressed by the Tuscan people convoked in assemblies;

"In the presence of representatives of the Public Prosecutor;

"In the presence of two employees of the Court of Accounts specially invited to control the necessary computations;

"Having considered the decree of March 1st, and the instructions of the Minister of Justice and Grace communicated by the letters of March 5, 7, and 8;

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Having compared and ascertained the soundness of the seals affixed on all the packages which have reached its bench and which pertained to the divisions, governments and military corps of Tuscany;

"Having seen all the formal minutes of the prefects, subprefects, governors, and commanders of military corps and having heard them read in public session;

"Having compared and ascertained the soundness of the seals affixed to the packages of the magistrates corresponding to the number of Preturas existing in Tuscany;

mendatore Vincenzio Beni, President, Cavalier Giuseppe Puccioni, Vicepresident and Cavalier Carlo Carducci, Silvio Bonajuti, Cavalier Zanobi Pasqui, Angiolo Nuccorini, Giuseppe Gilles, Cavalier Raffaelle Cocchi, and Gio. Batta Ajazza, Councillors, who have signed at the bottom of the act, together with the clerk.

"V. BANI, President — C. PUCCIONI, Vice-President - C. CARDUCCI -S. BONAJUTI-Z. PASQUI — A. NUCCORINIG. GILLES-R. CocCHI C. B. AJAZZI-F. NASI, Clerk."

Done at Florence, the fifteenth of March, eighteen hundred and sixty. The President of the Council of Ministers and Minister of the Interior, B. RICASOLI. The Minister of Public Instruction and acting Minister of Foreign Affairs,

C. RIDOLFI. The Minister of Justice and Grace, E. POGGI. The Minister of Finance, Commerce, and Public Works,

R. BUSACCA. The Minister of Ecclesiastical Affairs,

The Minister of War,

V. SALVAGNOLI.

R. CADORNA.

Seen for affixing the seal: The Minister of Justice and Grace, (L. S.) E. POGGI.

The General Secretary of the Government of Tuscany,

CELESTINO BIANCHI.

Con decreto del 17 marzo 1860 si ordinò che la dichiarazione della Corte di Cassazione fosse incisa in marmo ed affissa alla porta dei palazzi di ciascuna Comunità che rese il voto.

By decree of March 17, 1860, it was ordered to have the declaration of the Court of Cassation carved in marble and affixed to the door of the town hall of every commune which cast the vote.