Canton of Moutier
The canton of Moutier ( French Canton de Moutier ) was a canton of the First French Republic and the First Empire on the territory of today's cantons of Bern and Jura 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 roughly to the eastern part of the territory of the former Moutier-Grandval provost and included 16 municipalities:
According to a circular from the Ministry of the Interior of the 7th Frimaire of the year VI (November 27, 1797), the canton of Moutier had 3236 inhabitants, of whom 835 were eligible to vote.
Haut-Rhin department
According to the law of the 28th Pluviôse of the year VIII (February 17th, 1800), the canton Glovelier was abolished and merged with the canton Moutier. The enlarged canton now belonged to the Arrondissement Delsberg in the department Haut-Rhin and comprised 24 municipalities:
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Based on the figures in the circular from 1797, the canton of Moutier had 5815 inhabitants, of which 1539 were eligible to vote. By resolution of the Congress of Vienna on March 20, 1815, the territory was added to the Canton of Bern . Part of it has belonged to the canton of Jura since 1979 (the municipality of Vellerat since 1996).
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).