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the steuners well founded, a traffic which was quarant sed

by agreement executed under the law one ··ic suo dul, cut-

plied with by the client I represent.

The legal grounds for the claim I now present are

entirely clear and well known to the intelligent and hon-

our ble men who constitute the Executive Authorities of the

Republic.

Article 2 of the Peneral Constitution Laki-

*every man has a right to enter ano le ve the Re-

public, ir vel through Ita territory and change his real-

dence without the recessity of # letter of e-feguard, p ́38-

£4.

The exercise of this

fors or other sirilar req/1site.

right shall be without prejudice to the legel povera of the

juclciul or coriristrative authority in cases of criminel

or civil liability".

The limitations which were interrated by orders

have given rise to the demand for compensation which I now

present to the Buireme Governozent of the Country, anu did

rot affact the legsì funt which is orovised under the arti-

cle cited, a ich is so liberel in its spirit and tert, krd

which does not pive the authorities any further power to

prevent the right of transit, then the exforcarent of cri-

minal or civil liability, and the public ce lth is not in-

cluued in those two sole e ceptione which are established

AS an dapement for the free exercise of one of the must

sacred rights of men,

So unanimons in this conviction, that the Govern-

sent itself considered ite proceedinge illegal, and desired

to reconcile them with the interests of the pblic health,

it initiated the constitutional reform that we know of, and

in which it inclured the mary modern endings that now are

recognized by the Cons! it tion, but whion can have no re-

troactive effect in their application to the period when

other