"To declare Rome a free Imperial city, and to reserve a palace there
for your Majesty and your court, cannot but produce the most
favourable effect on the minds of the Romans.
"In the other dispositions of the proposed statute I have confined
myself to following the precedents adopted by your Majesty on former
occasions, under similar circumstances."
This report was accompanied by the minutes of three decrees. The first
referred to the future government of the Eternal City, and was sketched
out in the following articles:--
"Art. 1. Rome is a free Imperial city.
"Art. 2. The Palace of the Quirinal, with its dependencies, is
declared to be an Imperial Palace.
"Art. 3. The confines between the territory of Rome and the Kingdom
of Italy are to be determined by a line, which, starting from
Arteveri, passes through Baccano, Palestrina, Marino, Albano,
Monterotondo, Palombara, Tivoli, and thence, keeping always at a
distance of two miles inland from the sea, returns to Arteveri.
"Art. 4. The lands of all communes intersected by the above line form
the territory of Rome, excepting all lands that lie between the line
and the sea coast.
"Art. 5. A Senator and a Magistracy of forty Conservators are to form
the Government of the City and its territory.
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