Courtelary Canton
The canton Courtelary ( French Canton de Courtelary ) was a canton of the First French Republic and the First Empire on the territory of today's Canton of Bern in Switzerland .
Mont-Terrible department
It was created on November 19, 1797, when the southern half of the former Principality of Basel, which had not yet been formally annexed , was assigned to the Mont-Terrible department, which was created in 1793 . The canton corresponded to part of the former Erguel rule and comprised 13 municipalities:
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According to a circular from the Ministry of the Interior of the 7th Frimaire of the year VI (November 27, 1797), the canton of Courtelary had 7609 inhabitants, 1807 of whom were eligible to vote.
Haut-Rhin department
According to the law of 28th Pluviôse of the year VIII (February 17th, 1800), the Malleray canton was abolished and merged with the Courtelary canton. The enlarged canton now belonged to the Arrondissement Delsberg in the department Haut-Rhin and comprised 27 municipalities:
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Based on the figures in the circular of 1797, the canton of Courtelary had 10,827 inhabitants, of which 2,681 were eligible to vote. By resolution of the Congress of Vienna on March 20, 1815, the territory was added to the Canton of Bern .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Gustave Gautherot: Le département du Mont-Terrible: 1793-1800 . Librairie Honoré Champion, Paris 1908, p. 283 ( online ).
- ↑ Loi du 28e pluviose an VIII concernant la division du territoire français et l'administration. (PDF, 24 kB) Université de Picardie, accessed on November 16, 2015 (French).
- ↑ CHAPITRE X: administrative organization. In: L'almanach impérial pour l'an 1810. napoleon-series.org, accessed on November 16, 2015 (French).