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Laws of the Union.
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Publifted by Authority.
Sixth Congress of the United States,
at the firft fcffion, begun and held at the city of
^Philadelphia, in the Rate of Pcnnfylvaw,
on Monday the zd of December, 1799.
CHAPTER I.
^n ACT for reviving and continuing faits
and proceedings, in tie Circuit Court, for
the diflrifl of Pennsylvania.
Sec. I.T)E if enabled by ffo Senate and House of
DReprcfentatives of the United States of
America, u. Congress afwUed, That all suits,
^procefs and proceedings, of what nature or
kind soever, which were pending in the Circuit
Court of the United States, for the diftri& of
Pennsylvania, at the time appointed by law, for
'holding a session thereof in October, one thou
sand seven hundred and ninety-nine, and Which
were difeontinued, by failure to hold the laid
toutt, shall be, and they are hereby revived and
continued, and the fame proceedings may and
shall be had in the fame court, in all suits and
process aforefaid, and in all things relating to the
fame, as by law might have been had in the
fame court, had it been regularly holdcn, at the
time aforefaid.
Sec. 2. And be it further efta&d, That all writs
and other process, which may have been, and
which shall be issued, by the clerk of the said
court, bearing test of April session or October
session, one tho^nd seven hundred and ninety
nine, mall be hod and deemed of the fame va
lidity and effe&, as if the fame court had been
regularly held on the eleventh day of Q&obcr,
one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine.
See. 3. And be itfartier exu&d, That it shall
be lawful for the Judge of the Ddlridl Court of
the diftrift of Pennfylyania, to dired! the clerk
of the said Circuit Court to issue such process,
for the purpose of canting jurors to be summon
ed to attend at the session of the said Circuit
^ourt, on the eleventh day of April next, as hath
heretofore been iflued for the like purposes, re
turnable to any preceding session thereof ; and
the persons so summoned shall, in case of non
attendance, be liable to the fame penalties as if
such process had been issued in the ordinary
course of proceeding.
THEODORE SEDGWICK,
Spelter of the Houfc of Reprefeotutives.
SAMUEL LIVERMORE,
Prftat of the Senate, pro tempore.
Approved—December 24th, 1799.
JOHN ADAMS,
President of the United States
CHAPTER 11.
An ACT extending the privilege of fronting to
William Henry Harrifra, & delegate from the
territory of the United States north-Toed of the
fObio; and making prorfion for bio comperfaion.
, T) £ it et,nHcd by the Senate and Honfe of
, cC.jl. Reprefentatita of the United States
$f America, in Congress pfembled, That Wiliiam
Henry Harrison, the delegate to Congress from
the territory of the United States north-weft
of the river Ohio, be entitled to the privilege
of fending and receiving letters free of postage,
on the fame terms, and under the fame reftric
ticns, as are provided for the members of the
Senate and of the House of Representatives of
the United States, by the act,intituled " An ad
to establish the poft-affice and post-roads with
in the United States."
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted. That the
said William Henry Harrison fhali receive for
jhis travelling expenfes,and attendance in Con
grefc, the fame compensation as is or may be
allowed by law, to the members of the House
of Representatives of the United States, to be
certified and paid in like manner.
THEODORE SEDGWICK,
Speaker of the Hokfe of Representatives.
Th : JEFFERSON,
Pice-Prudent of the United States, and
Prudent of the Senate.
Approved —January id, rßoo.
JOHN ADAMS,
Prudent of the United States.
CHAPTER 111.
ACT'J^P'""^" 7 todke aft intitu
'lert " Aart to providefor the valuation
h lands and dwelling boujes, and the e
.fr^^ ^^ U " ited
States,"
+.. VEX enaffied by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United
States of America, ^ Cofy Afebled, That
the commissioners appointed under the ad to
which this is a Supplement, fhali l^vc power, on
ration and exammat, of the lifts, re
turns, valuations, and abftr, rendered by the
Wefels, to revile, adjuft,and ray the valuations
9 [Q and dwefli^ hoW in each and every
YEAR..
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WRCH29, i3oo. ! DOLLAR CENTS Per
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fuh-divifion of the fevefal assessment diflri&s,
by adding thereto, or deducting therefrom,
such a rate per centum as foil appear to lie
just and reasonable t Provided, That the rela
tive valuations of the different lots or trails of
land, or dwelling houses in the fame fub
divinon Ihall not be changed or affected.
See, 2. And be it jurtber enaaed. That the
Ifaid1 faid commissioners may dired the additions or
I deductions as aforefaid, to be made out and
completed by the several principal assessors, or
if they fhali deem it mote advifeable, by their
clerk and such affiflants as they shall find neces
sary, and appoint for that purpose. Provided,
That the compensation to be made to the said
assistants fhali not exceed the pay allowed to
the affittant assessors, by the aft to which this is
a supplement.
THEODORE SEDGWICK,
1 Speaker of the House of Representativee r
Th: JEFFERSON,
''ice-Pref,ent of tue United Stater, and
Pref dent of the Senate.
Approved—January 2d, 1800.
JOHN ADAMS,
Present of the United Stater.
_ CHAPTER IV.
An ACx for the relief of persons imfrif
oned fir debt.
Sec. I. T 2" lt earned by tie Senate ant
House of Representatives of the
United States of America, in Congr.fs Assembled,
I hat persons imprisoned on process issuing from
any court of the United States, as well at the
suit of the United States as at the suit of any
person or persons in civil adieus, fhali be entit
led to like privileges of the yards or limits of
the refpe&ive goals, as persons confined in like
Cases on process from the courts of the refped
ivc states, are entitled to, and under the like re
gulations and reftri&ions.
Sec. 2. Ard be it further enabled, That any
perlon imprisoned on process of execution issu
ing from auy court of the United States in civil
actions, except at the suit of the United States,
may have the oath or affirmation hereinafter
expressed, administered to him by the fudge of
the Dittrich Court of the United States, within
whose jurifdi&ion the debtor may IF confined ;'
and in case there fhali be no Diftrid Judge re
siding within twenty miles of the goal wherein
such debtor may be confined, such oath or affir-|
mation may be administered by any two persons
who may be commissioned for that purpose by
the D.ftri6 t Judge: The creditor, his agent
or attorney, if either live within one hundred
miles of the place of imprisonment, or within
the diftridt in wliich the judgment was render
ed, having had at leak thirty days previous no
tice by a citation served on him, issued by the
Diftria Judge, to appear at the time and place
therein mentioned, if he fccfit, to (hew cause
why the said oath or affirmation should not be
so adminiflercd: At which time and place, if no
fufficient cause, io the opinion of the judge, (or
the commissioners appointed as aforefaid) be
shewn, or doth from examination appear to the
contrary, he or they may at the request of the
debtor, proceed to administer to him the fol
lowing oath or affirmation, as the case may be,
viz. Iton solemnly (swear or as
firm) that you have no eftace, real or personal
in pofleffion, reversion, or remainder, to the a
mouat or value of thirty dollars, other than nec
essary wearing apparel ; and that you have not,
direaly or indited!,, given, fold, leafed, nr
otherwise conveyed to or intruded any perfun
or perlons with all or any part df the eftatc, re
al or .personal, whereof you have been the law
ful owner or possessor, with any intent to secure
the fame, or to receive or cx^& any profit or
advantage therefrom, or to defraud your cred
itors, or have caused or fuffered to be done an,
tiling elle whatsoever, whereby any of your
creditors may be defrauded." Which oath or
affirmation being adminiflercd, the judge or
commissioners fhali certify the fame under his
or their hands to the prison keeper, and the deb
tor fhali be difehatged front his imprisonment
on such judgment, and flail not be liable to be
imprisoned again for the said debt, but the judg
ment fhali remain good and fufficient in iaw,
and may be fatisfied out of any estate which
may then, or at any time afterwards, belong to
the debtor. And the judge or commissioners,
in addition to the certificate by them made
and delivered to the prison-keeper, shall make
return of their doings co the Diftrift Court,
with the commission, in cases where a commis
sion hath been issued, to be kept upon the files
and record of the fame court, And the said
judgeor commhkoners may fend for books and <
papers, amd have the fame authority as a court
of record fto compel the appearance of witnesses
and, administer to them, as well as to the debt
air, the, ottifis or affirmations necessary for the
enquiry ihto, and difeovery of the true state of
the debtor's property, tranfatliors and affairs?
Sec. 3. And be it further enafld,That when the
examination and proceedings alorefaid, in the
opinion of the said judge or commissioners, can
not be had with lafety or convenience, in the pris
on wherein the debtor is confined,itfhall be law
fui for him „or them, by warrant, under his or
their hand and seals, to order the marshal or
prifon-keeper,to remove the debtor to such other
place convenient and near to the prison as he or
they may fee fit ; and to remand tie debtor to
the fame prison, if upon examination or cause
shewn by the creditor, it shall appear that the
debtor ought not to be admitted to take the a
buve recited oath or affirmation, or that he is
holden for any other ciufe. 1
Sec. 4. And be it further enaßed, That If any
per son shall falfely take any oath or affirmation,
buthorifed by this ad, such perlon shall be deem
ed guilty of perjury, and upon conviction there
of, shall fuffer the pains and penalties in that
case provided. And in case auy falfe oath or
affirmation be so rfken by the debtor , the court,
upon the motion of the creditor, shall recommit
the debtor to the prison from whence he was
liberated, there to be detained for the said debt,
in the fame manner as if such oath or affitma
tion bad not bden taken.
Sec. 5. And be it further enabled, Ths' atty
person imprisoned upon process iffuing'S mi
any court of the United States, except at the
suit of the United States, in any civil action,
1 against whom judgment has been or shall be re
covered, Shall be entitled to the privileges and
, relief provided by this a&, after the expiration
, of thirty days from the time such judgment has
been or shall be recovered, though the creditor
should not, within that time sue out his execu
tion, and charge the debtor therewith.
THEODORE SEDGWICK,
Speaker of the House of Reprfotat&s.
Th: JEFFERSON,
Fise-Prefdent of the United States, and
Prudent of the Senate.
ArpßoviD —January 6th, is@o.
JOHN ADAMS,
Prefdent of the United States.
CHAPTER-^"
An ACT for the,referva!ton of peace ratth
the Indian tribesc
See Is " '"''*'' 'j "" Senate and House of
' Representatives of tbe United States of
America, in Congress afembled, That ifany citizen
or other perfonresiding within the United States,
or the territory thereof, shall fend any talk,
fpecch, meffagir, or tetter to any Indian nation,
tribe, or chief, with an intent to produce a con
travention or infraction of any treaty or other
law of the United States, or to disturb the peace
and tranquillity of the United States, he thall
forfeit a fam not exceeding two thousand dollars,
and be imprisoned not exceeding two years.
Sec. 2. And be it further traded, That if any
citizen or other perlon (hall carry or deliver any
filch talk, fpecch, menage or letter, to or from
any Indian nation, tribe, or chief, from or to
any person or perlons whatsoever, reading with
in the United States; or from or to any fubje&,
citizen, or agent of any foreign power or state,
knowing the contents theretf, he shall forfeit a
sum not exceeding one thouhnd dollars, and be
imprisoned not exceeding tv^lve months.
See, 3. And be it enabled, That if any
citizen or other person, refidipg or being among
ithe Indians, or elsewhere, within the territory
I of the United States, shall atry on a correfpon
denes, by letter or otherwise, with any foreign
j nation or power, with an intent to induce such
j foreign nation or power, to excite any Indian
I nation, tribe, or chief to war against the United
'States, or to the violation of any exi Ring treaty;
, or in case any citizen or other person shall alieu
| ate, or attempt to alienate the confidence of the
' Indians from the government of the United
:States, or from any such person or perfoiis as
I are, or may be employed and entrusted by the
(Peefident of the United States, as a commission
er or commissioners, agent or agents, or in any
capacity whatever, for facilitating or preferv-'
ing a friendly inteccourfc with the Indians, or
for managing the concerns of the United States N
with them, he shall forfeit a furn not exceeding
one thousand dollars, and be imprisoned not ex
ceeding twelve months.
Sec. 4. And be it further enabled, That the pro
visions of the a& 4 intituled "An a& to regulate
trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes,
& to preserve peace on the frontiers," puffed the
third day of March, one thousand seven hundred
and ninety-nine, be and the fame are hereby ex
tended to carry into effect this aft, and for the
trial and punishment of offences aguinft it, in
the fame manner as if they were herein special
ly recited.
Sec. 5. And be it further enaßed, That this aft
shall continue and be in force until the third'
day of March, in the year one thousand eight
hundred and two, and no longer,
THEODORE SEDGWICK,
Speaker of the Hos of A^prfntatfveb.
Th : JEFFERSON,
rice-Prfdent of the United States, and
Prefdent of the Senate. ,
ApfcßOVED—January f,th, ißoc.
JOHN ADAMS,
Pref dent of the United SiMeti
U - —
CHAPTER VI.
An ACT to repeal part es an aft, intitu
led " An all to provide for mitigating
or remitting the forfeitures, penalties &
dfabilities, accruing in certain cases
therein nwntioned, and to continue in
force the ref due of the fame'’
BE it enabled by the Senate and House of Repre
fintatives of the United States of America, in
Congress affevibled. That the fourth legion of an
a&, intituled "An a& to provide for mitigating
or remitting the forfeitures, penalties and disa
bilities, accruing in certain cases therein men
tioned," puffed on the third day of March, one
thousand fev^u hundred and ninety-nine, shall
be and the fame is hereby repealed, and the res
idue of the said aft shall be and the fame is
hereby continued in full force without limita
tion of time.
THEODORE SEDGWICK,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Th : JEFFERSON,
rice-Prudent of the United States, and
Pref tot of the Senate.
Approved—February It, 1800.
JOHN ADAMS,
Prudent of the United States.
"chapter viF
An ACT for the relief of John Vaughan.
BE it enabled by the Senate and House of Repre
sentatives of the United States of America, in
Congress afenbled, That the accounting officers
of the Treasury be, and they arc hereby autho
rized add dire&d, to fettle the account of John
Vaughan, and to allow him the amount of the
diffetchce in bis favor, which would result from
calculating the silver bullion by him deported,
previous to the month of'December, in the year
one thousand seven hundred atid ninety-five, in
I the Mint of the United States, for coinage, at
I the rate of one thousand four hundred and eigh
ty-five parts fine, to one hundred and feventy
niae parts alloy, infteaq of the rate of nine parts
fine, to one part alloy, #nd that the fame bt
paid out of any loonies in the Treasury not oth-
CTwife appropriated.
THEODORE SEDGWICK,
Speaker oftbd Hoife of Reprefatatives,
Th : JEFFERSON,
Pice-Prefdent of tbe United Stales, and-
Prefdent of the Senate.
Approved —February 11,1800.
JOHN ADAMS,
Prudent oftbe United Ikuta.
:Important NEWS,
By late arrivals at Ne^-fork fromEurype
New Constitution
QF THE
French REPUBLIC !
OFFiO IL COPY.
be e>to C+
CHATI HR I,
Art. I. O^HE French Republic it one
„ and indivisible.
Its European territory is distributed into de
partments and communal didriis.
2. Every man born and resident irt France,
and of the «ge OC2I years,who has inferibe'd his
name in the civic register of his communal dif
tri&, and afterwards remained a year on the
territory of the French Republic, is a French ci
tizen.
3 A foreigner becomes a French citizen who
after having attained the age of 21 years, and
declared his intention of fixing his residence io
France, and has resided there for 10 fuccdlive
years.
4 The title of French citizen is forfeited—
By naturalization in a foreign country.
By accepting any office or pension from a fo
rei,. 1 government.
By affiliation with any foreign corporation,
which supposes diftinAions of birth.
By condemnation to corporal or infamous
punifhruents.
5 The exercise of the rights of a French citi-
Z9l in suspended by a bankruptcy, or by a total
or partial facctffion to the property of an insol
vent.
By a state of hired servitude, either attached
to the service of the person or the family.
^ By a state of judicial intrfdi&ion, accufatioh
or contumacy.
6 In orfcr to erercife the rights of citi^eh
ffiip they must have been acquired by being
domiciliated by a year's residence, and not for
feited by a year's absence.
7 The citizens of every communal diftri&
Ihail appoint by their fuffrages, those whom they
think most worthy of conducting the public af
fairs. There shall be a lift of confidence ; con
taining a number of names equal to a tenth of
the number of citizens poffefling the right of
4 fuffrage. From this firft communal lift the
public functionaries of diftri&s shall be taken.
8 The citizens comprised, in the commu
nal lifts of a department ffiall also appoint a
tenth of their number. These shall constitute
a second lift called Q, department lift, from
which the public functionaries of each depart
ment shall be taken.
, The citizens included in the departmental
1 lift shall also appoint a tenth of their number;
this 3d lift fha!l consist of the citizens of each
department, eligible to public national func
tions. . +
10 The citizens who shall have a right of
I co-operating in the formation of any of the lifts
Imentioned in the three preceding articles, shall
every third year be called upon to exetcife the
power of replacing these who shall have died, or
absented themselves far any other cause than
the exercise of,a public fun&ion.
II They may also withdraw from the lifts
those whom they shall not judge proper to con
tinue, and replace them by other citizens in
whom they may bate greater confidence.
12 No one shall be erased from the lifts, 0-
therwife than by the votes of the decisive ma
jor ty of the citizens, having the right of co-op
erating in their formation.
13 No one ihall be erased from the lift of
thole eligible to public national functions; mere
ly because his name may have been struck out,
of a lift of an inferior or superior degree.
14 The appointment to the lift of eligible)
is only necessary with regard to public functions,
for which that condition is expressly required by
the constitution or by the law. All the lifts of
the eligible# shall be formed in the course of the
9th year. —^
CHAPTER 11.
I 5 The conicrvatory fen^te shall be compet
ed of 80 members, of 40 years of age at least, to
be iiremovesbie during life.
For the formation of the senate, there shall be
nominated in the firft instance 60 members —
this number shall be enervated to 62 in the
course of the Bth year, to 64 in the 9th year
and shall be gradually encreafed to 80 by the
addition of two members in each of the ten
firft years.
16 The nomination to the office of senate
shall be by the senate, who shall make choke
our of these candidates presented to them ; the
firft by the legislative body, the second by the
tribunate, and the third by the chief eonlul.
17 The chief consul, upon quitting his office
either by theexpiration of his functions,or by rc
tignation, necefTaniy, and as a matter of right
becomes a senator.
The two other consuls, during the month,
which follows the expiration of their functions,
may take their feats in the senate, but are not
obliged to exercise that privilege."
They lose realtogether, if they quit their con
sular functions by resignation.
18 A,fcnator is always ineligible to any o
ther public function.
19 All the lifts made in the departments,
by virtue of the 9th article, shall be addreffedto
the senate. The, ffiall compole the national
hit.
30 From this lift shall be eluded the legif
, lators, the tribunes, the coufuli, the judges of
I caffrtion, and the Cofoffetfce ada RefenUbilite.
At They shall conform or annul every act
referred to them as uncooftiUrtional by their tri
buuate, or the government ; the lifts of the el
igibles shall be included among these aC|%
„ The revenues of national domains, the
terms of which arc expired, shall be liable to the
expenses of the ferace. The annual falvy of
each of its members ffiall be paid out of thole
l revenues.—lt ffiall be equal to a 20th of that of
the chief conlul.
23 The fittings of the senate are not public.
24 Citizen Sicyes and Roger Ducas, the
two confyls who arc to go out of office, fall
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be nominated members of the conservatory sen
ate ; they shall unite with the second and third
consuls nominated by the present one. These
four citizens shall appoint the majority of the
senate, which shall afterwards complete itfelf,
aud proceed to the elections entrusted to its
direction;
CHAPTER 111.
Os the lycgiflative P^cr.
l$ No new law shall be promulgated, urt
lefs the plan ihall have been proofed I>y th#
government, communicated to tne tribunate,
and decreed by the Legislative Body.
26 The plans which the government ma,
propose shall be drawn up under different heads.
—ln every case in which such plans shall be
difeuffed, the government may withdraw them,
and present them again in a modified state.
„ The tribunate is to be composed of roe
members of 25 years of age at lead-; th-y shall
be renewed by fifths every yeatyand indefinite!,
re-eligible while they remain upon the hacional
lift.
28 The ttibunate shall difeufs the plans of
every law that may be proposed ; it shall vote
for the adoption or rejection of them.
It shall fend three orators taken from its body,
1 by whom the motives of its vote, with refped
i to each of the plans, shall be ftat'ed and fup
iported before the legislative body.
It fhali refer td the senate, but for the c^fe
!of incontlitutionality only, the lift *of the eligi
ble, the ads of the Aginative body, and those
lof the government.
12, It shall exprefsits opinion as to the laws
made or to be made, the abuses to be corrected,
the ameliorations to be attempted, in every part
, of the public administration, but never relative
to the civil or criminal affairs referred to the trfo
:buuals.
The opinions it ffiall give, by virtue of the
present article, are to be followed by no neceffar,
consequences ; they compel no conllituted au^
thorit, to come to any deliberation.
30 When the tribunate adjourns, it tnay ap
point a committee from ten to fifteen members,
charged to convoke it, if it fhali be deemed ac
ccffary.
31 The legislative body shall be competed of
305 members, of 30 years of age at the least ,-
they Ihall be renewed by fifths every year.—-
i There ought always to be one citizen, at least,
of each department of the republic present.
32 A member who go.A'h of the legiflativd
'body cannot re-enter till after the interval of a
yesr-=but he may be immediately elected to an,
other public fUn&ion, including that of tribune,
provided he is in other refpe&s eligible.
133 The fitting of the legislative body IhalT
' commence every year on the firft Frimaire, and
ihall continue only four months—it may be ex>
traordinarily convoked during the other eight
, by the government.
'34 The legislative bod, ena&s the law b,
! determining by secret fcrutiny,and without an,
difeuffion on the part of its members, upon the
i plans of the law debated before it, by the ora
tors of the tribunate and the government.
35 The fittings of the tribunate and of the
legislative body, shall be public—the number of
strangers in either of them not to exceed 200.
36 The annual salary of a tribune shall be
' 15,000 francs, th# of a legislative 10,000 francs.
37 Every decree of the legiflativc body shall,
the xoth day after it be made, be promulgated
by the chief consul, unless in the mean time it it
referred to the senate, on the ground of iucon
ftitutiouzlit,. Such reference cannot be made
with regard to laws that have been promulgated,
58 The firft renewal of the legifi stive bod,
and of the tribunate shall not cake place till the
loth year;
CHAP. IV.
Os the G^rnment.
39 The government is entrusted to three edd
fills appointed for ten years, and indefinitely re
eligible. Each of them is to be elected indi
vidually ^ith the dissing quality of chief, fec
obd, or third consul.—The firft time the third
couful ffiall only be named for five years.
For the present tir.ie Gen. Buonaparte is ap
pointed chief consul : Citizen Cambaferes,
now ininifterof Jallice, second consul ; and
Citizen Lebrun, member of the committee of
ancients, third consul.
40 The chief consul has particular functions
ar l attributes, which, when he is exercising, he
may be temporarily Supplied by one of hiv col
leagues.
41 The chief consul is to promulgate fht
laws ; he id to name and revoke at pleasure the
members of the council of state ; the minister„
ambagadors and other principal foreign agents,
the officers of the army by land and sea, Qis
members of local adminiftratiou and the com?
missioner sos the governmerit at the tribunals.
He is to appoint all judges criminal and civil, as
well as judices of the peace, and the judges of
caffation, without the power of afterwards re
voking them.
42 In the other a&s of the Government, the
second and third Consuls are to have a confir
mative voice ; they arc to sign the register of
the adls, in order to manifeft that they were
present ; and if they please, they may coun
tersign their opinions ; after which the deter
mination of the chief cauful shall follow;
43 The salary of the chief consul ffiall be
500,000 francs, for the Bth year. The falary'
of the other two cootuls fliall be equal to three
tenths of that of the firft.
44 The government is to propose the laws,
and to make the neceffar, regulations to enfura
their execution.
45 The government is to diredl the receipts
and expances of the Rate, conformable to the
annual law, which determines the amount of
each ; it shall superintend the coinage of money
of which the law alone shall order ^e issue, fix
the value, the weight and the imprelTion.
46 When the government is informed of an,
conspiracies agaiuft the state, it may issue order,
to arrt ft and bring before them the perfon# who
are fufpe&ed as the authors or accomplices!
but if within ten days after fach arrest, they
are not fa at liberty or brought to trial, it fhali
be confider ed, on the part of the minister figg
ing the orders as an acl of arbitrary deteotfon^
47 The government is to superintend the in
ternal fafery aidexternal deforce of the ttste:
it is to diftubute the forces by tea and laud.aud
[epilate she diycaion of them.