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FRENCH CONSTITUTION.
0 ) 6 PLAN of A
, CONSTITUTION
. FOR THE
I FRENCH REPUBLIC.
\ Proposed to the National Convention of
, France, by the Committee of Eleven, in the
I, fitting of the sth Meflidor, (June 23) third
Iyear of the Republic.
, [concluded.]
VSECTION X.
W FINANCES..
6 \ PUBLIC CONTRIBUTIONS.
& Art. I.T'HE public contributions
I I are debated and fixed ev
£ / ery year by the legislative body!
fy/ The, may not extend beyond chat
term, if they,aae not exprehly renew
l cd.
11. The proprietors of the funds
are taxed 00 the amount of their in
come. .
)Thofe, who are not holders in the
funds, and who by their ioduftry are
in a fixation to contribute to the
public expends, pay a petfood con
tribution.
111. The legislative body may ef
[ tablifh such kind of contribution as it
? Shall judge necessary; but it cannot,
altogether fupprefa the real nor the
, perfanal contribution.
I, IV. Every individual, who, not
A bein^in the fiwatiop provided for by
(articles rfaod 6of chapter 2 of the
\Q coaflitution, has not been comprised
n, in the lift of personal contributions,
Ihas the right of preferring himfelf
before the municipal admioiftration,
[' to be there iafcribed ; the adminif
ltration infcribtf hia name, if there be
1 cause for so doing, and determines the
F amount to which that citizen mail be
taxed. - ^ ' ',\
V. The contributions of .every
' kind are distributed amongst all the
contributors, according to that facul
/ VI. The executive direabry di
(reds and fuperimends the colkaion
°J and the fulfilment of the contribu
-1 , tions, and give#, to that end, all the
L J necessary orders.
L / V'! The detailed accounts of
k, the experde of the agents general of
I?execution, tinned and certified by the
agents general, are published at the
& commencement of each year.
, ft shall contain likewise the ftatepf
the different contributions, and of all
the 'public revenues.
VIII; The fatements of those re
^ceipfs and expenditures are diftin
guilhed according to their nature;
It they state the sums received and eg
pended, year by year, in each part of
*the general adminiftratioo.
The accounts of the.particular ex
tenfaiin&de
tive tothe iriburiah, t^^^^
'trfos, to the progress of the Icten
' ces, toall public work?, and eflablifh
menu, are, in like manner, to-be
made public.
'The administrations of department
and the murfcipaiiri^ shall not bave :
pow (0 eaabr^ any public
''contribution, nor to ma^f any appro
>'. • rtA J flip
*nrmiofi oretfflng apoyc.<irc ^yp# 3
' ^ me or p er X witmt bring thereto
authored by it, 0, Ideal loan at the
CONCO R D, FRIDAY, October 9, 1795.
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expeofe of the citizens of the depart
ment, commune or canton. *
National Treafory end Accounts.-
XI. There are five commiffion*
era of the national treasury chosen a,
member, of the executive council, by
the legiflitive body, in the fame
formr.
XII, The duration of their func
tions is for five years, one of them isl
renewable every year.,
Xll£ The commissioners of thel
treafary ate charged with the super- I
intendancy pt the receipt of all the}
rational demands.
Toforder the payment of all pub
lie expenses ;
To keep an account open, of the
receipts and expenditures with all the'
receivers and pay masters, who oughtl
to account with the national treasury ;I
To maintain with the treasurers ofl
departments, or with the administra
tions, the correspondence necessary to
secure the exaft and regular receipt
of the funds.
XIV, They can pay nothing, un^
der pain of trefoil, but in virtue,
ift. Os a decree of the legislative.|
carps, and when the funds decreed
by it, agree tyith each object.
t& Os 9 decision of ths dire&o
ry.
jd. Os the situation of the agent
general of execution, w,ho orders the
expeafe,
XV, ^Neither cm they, under the
pain of ttefpli, effect.any ^ym,t,
if the warrens figued by tre,agent
general of execution, whom mat fpe
ciea of expeofe may coocerD, does not
mention the date; aa well of the de
cision of the executive diredory, as
of the decree of the' legislative body,
which authoring the payment.
XVI. There Shall be five com
mifliooezs of cational accounts ap-I
poioted'at the feme lime, and m the
fame manner with th, cemmifiluOT'
of the treasury.
XVII. They are also appointed
for five years, one of which U renew-|
able each year.l
XVIII. The commiffioacta of
accounts Shall cause to be rendered at
the periods fixed by law, fatemenft
of the federal accounts fopported by
vouchers, and Shall purfoe the car
re&^g and judging of (hole account.
XIX. la case of death, difqualin
cation ,r difmiffioo of one 4 of the
commiffioffis of accounts or of the
tre.fury, hit fecceffor is appointed by
the legiflarive body.
The new member is defied only
for the residue of the rinse of his pre
deeeflbr I but if that time does not
exceed fix moths, he that it elected
fhsli fare five' years sod" so half.
XX. The legislative .body jorms
ever, ,W a lift ^ two hundred fa
ton,- fo| auditing and judging ac
coura
XXL Tie commiffitere of &:•
counts form horn thia ft a jury of
2 i citizens, of ,h>ch the p&<, sc- ;
countable Shall hve a right ^chal
lenge seven, and ttfexemiv, duec
,lory fevfa ^tyfc t
XXII. Ira not
./(eityfaH^^^ Mfeven,|
the iuro^ not dhaltenged shall ty/ducel
thetofefa to &t number by lot. ~
toftforotmeHCTWOTtok rot^w^^w^iDrc*^ icz^^
to the jury, he will make all those
obfervationi that are proper, and will
give the necessary orders tor putting
it into a date to produce his decision,
~CHAPTER XL
EXTERIOR RELATIONS.
Art..l. the French Republic doe^
not take arms but to maintain its li
.b.r:y, preservation of its territory,
jQ defence of its allies.
I AL War cannot be declared hut
I by a decree of the legiO^tive body, on
Ithe formal and neceffiry proportion
of the executive directory.
111. The two legislative council#
concur, in the ordinary forms, in the
decree by which war is declared.
IV. In case of boftilities impend
;tog or commenced, of threats or pre-
| parations for war agaioft the French
IRepublic, the executive directory i^
;bound to employ, for the defence of
the fare,the means at its difpofrion^
under charge of informing toe legisla
tive body without delays
They may also point out in that,
case; the augmentations of force, and
the n^, legislative arrangements
iwhich dirumftances shall require.
V. The dire&ory alone may pro
vuh lor political relations abroad,
condv& negotiations, dispose of ike
furcci by land and tea, as they shall
judge expedient ; and govern its di
reai^n in case of war.
Vl. It is authorised to make pre
liminary flipulations, la armittices,
^fahzafons ; it may also make fe
fcret conventions.
VII. Is belongs 'to the executive
power to conclude, and to Sign, OT
cause to be signed, with foreign pow
ers, all treaties of peace, of alliance,
of truce, of neutrality, of commerce,
and other agreements neceff^y co the
ifed of the state. These treaties and
:agreements Shall be negotiated inahe
name of the French republic by the
diplomatic agents, appointed by the
executive directory, and charged with
its i^ruftions.
VIII. In the case where a treaty
Icovers secret articles, th; arrangement
of these article# cannot effeft the pub
lie Taichi.
IX. : Treaties are not binding till
after having been examined and ra
tified by the tegiflative body ; nev
ertheiefs Secret /conditions receive a
provisional execution the moment
the, are concluded by the qxecutive
dhedory.
/Neither of the legislative councils
deliberate on war or peace but in ge
n&l committee. -?
X. Foreigners, eftablilhed or not
in France, Succeed their parents, for
eigners or French ; they may con
trad, acquire and receive, eftares ht
rated in France, and there dispose of
the fame as all French citizens, by
all the methods authorifed by the
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CHAPTER XII. „
JUtyfa of tie Coo#italic
^&t.l. When experience shall
Ipoint out the inconvenience if any
iwti&i of the conUitutian, the coufr
Itl! of ancitaixben propofc the reyi
foH. The proposition of the coon-1
I@of aactehtgin this case is Submitted I
Itube ntifafo of the co^til of
Isa tee.
QfytiP^fflfflmfercfoz©mffyimm»^^ t=~=tr ~A
111. When in the force of fixfuc.
ceffive years, the piepotirion of th'
council of &ncUbts ratified by the
council of five hundied, 1^ been
made at three epochs two years drf
tant from each orfer a least, an .1-
fernbly of revision it convoked.
IV. This affably is tornud of
two members from e^cli department,
all elated in the fame mincer as the
members of the legiflitive body, and
meeting t&ei ^ fcn/e corrbneot as
those for the council of sneientn
V. The council of ancients defig
bate for the meeting the affehbly of
revision, a piece dißant twenty myri
ametres (about 30 leagues) at teaR # •
from the feat of fire teg&tive body.
VI. The assembly of revision has
the tight to change the place of its
residence, observing the distance pre"
scribed by the preceding article.
VIL The affembfy of revision
cannot exercise any legislative or gov
ernmental function —the, confine
themfeives to the revision of the con
ftityrional la ws. r
VIII. All the authorities continue
to exercise their funaions till the chan
ges proposed by the affembty of rew
lion have been accepted by the peo
ple, nd until the new authorities
have been put in edivityi
IX. The members of the affem
biy of revision deliberate in rammon t
. X. Those citizens who are mem
bers of the legi ^tive;bo^v ft the
time of convoking the aA&X of
revision, canoot be elected numbers
of that affembl,.
XL The afrmbly of revision ad<
dress i immediately to the primary
assemblies the plan of reform which
they have agreed upon.
They diffuse as soon as their plan
has beea thus addressed.
XII. The members of the afiem
bly of revifio# cannot be d questioned,
accused norjudged at any time, for
what they have laid or written in the
exercise of their functions.
During the continuance of their
funaions, they cannot in aby case be
'put in arteft, except by r decision of
the fame members of dhe assembly of
revigon. ~
/ CHAPTER last. ri,'
General Arrangements.
Art. I. There does not exist a
mong the citizens any superiority othf
er than that of public funaionaries,
and relative to the exercise of their
fundion#..
11. The ;hw recognizes no relig
ious vo^, nor anj iother engtgemer,
contrary to the natural rights of maOi
111. Noone can be hindered from
fpeqking, writing, printing and pub
lishing his thoughts, on a legal re
sponsibility.
IV. No one can be hindered' from
exercifiog that religious worship he
has chosen, nor be compelled to con
tribute to the fuppon of that which
he does not adopt. .'
V. There is. neither privilege,
freedom, exemption or limitation to
the liberty of commerce, and the ex
ercise of industry and the arts of eve
ry defcriptioo. *
Every prohibitory law of this kind
wh, circumftaom render it necefla-
Inot exist for more than a year, unless
Iformally renewed.