Editing Carlsbad Decrees (section)

===Investigating committee===

1. Within a fortnight, reckoned from the passage of this decree, there shall convene, under the auspices of the Confederation, in the city and federal fortress of Mainz, an extraordinary commission of investigation to consist of seven members, including the chairman.

2. The object of the commission shall be a joint investigation, as thorough and extensive as possible, of the facts relating to the origin and manifold ramifications of the revolutionary plots and demagogical associations directed against the existing constitution and the internal peace both of the union and of the individual states; of the existence of which plots more or less clear evidence is to be had already, or may be produced in the course of the investigation.

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10. The central investigating commission is to furnish the Diet from time to time with a report of the results of the investigation, which is to be carried out as speedily as possible.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Karlsbader Beschlüsse – Untersuchungsgesetz|url=http://www.heinrich-heine-denkmal.de/dokumente/karlsbad3.shtml|accessdate=10 June 2020}}</ref><ref name=Robinson/>