The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1793-05-06 00:00:00, page 1

Magazine.
THE firft Number of the Ne^wbamfefeire
MAGAZINE will be published on the
firft Monday in JUNE next.——Gentle
men who hold fubfcriptioh Papers are re
quested to forward them to their, and the
Publick's humble Servant,
ELIJAH RUSSELL.
State of Newbamp/bire.
Hillfborough fc.
Henniker, March Bth, 1793.
K,N O W all Men by these
Presents, that I John Campbell,
of Henniker, in said County, Joiner, have
repeatedly reported that Alexander
Patterson, Jun. of said Henniker, has
taken a FALSE OATH, and I the said
John Campbell am sensible that I have
injured the said Alexander Patter-
N son, and wronged him in reporting such
a LIBEL against him, and I do therefore
ask his forgivenefs of the Injury I have
done him the said Alexander. In Tes
timony whereof, witness my Hand,
JOHN CAMPBELL.
Attest, David Clough. (
THE Subscriber informs the'
Publick, he now owns a Stallion
COLT, three Years old this Spring, a- I
bout sixteen Hands high—He wishes notft
to fay much in his Favour, only requefts^
any Gentleman who is desirous of know-L
ing his Value, to take an Opportunity and 1
view him. He flatters himfelf no Person
will repent the Loss of his Time.,
JOSEPH GIBSON.
Henniker, April iSth, 1793: 28 I
MISCELLANY.
ABSTRAC T
^^Q^ OF THE NEW
CONSTITUTION of France.
[Tbe tendency of this important
code cannot be too generally known,\
but as it is too long to be given here
in detail, we present the following ab
flraA for the information of the gene
ral reader.]
THE object, it begins, of all
union of men in society, be
ing the maintaining of natural, ci
vil, and political rights, these rights
ought to be the basis of the social
compact. —The acknowledgment
and declaration of them ought to
precede the constitution whichaf
fures the guarantee of them.
(Then follows the declaration of
. the natural, political, and civil
rights of man.) = 1
After the recognition of these
rights, on which the Government is
founded, the French nation is de
clared to form one indivisible Re
.publick.
The division into departments is
reduced ; each department is divid
ed into communes or diftrify, and
each commune into municipal fac
tions and primary assemblies.
— —
Pr imary Assemblies.
In the Primary Assemblies, every
managed 21 years has a right ;to
vote, provided that his name is in
scribed on the Civic Table, and that
he shall have resided one year in
France.
The Primary Assemblies shall be
so distributed in each department,
that none shall consist of less than
400, or more than 900 members ;
in each of these a feled committee
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is to be chosen by ballot, confining
of as many members as there are
fifties of citizens in the assembly.
In this committee, he who has
the majority of votes shall be presi
dent of the assembly ; the three
next on the lift shall beSecretaries.
The duty of the feled committee
is to keep the recorders, and to ar
range and submit the bufinefi to the
assembly.
All elections are to be carried on
in those assemblies; The interme
diate, or electoral assemblies, have
no place in this code. The elec
tions are to be made by what is cal
led a double Scrutiny ; each gives
in a signed lift of candidates equal
to the number of places to be fil
led. These bulletins, or lifts of pre
sentation, as they are termed, are
sent to the administration of each
department. They fele& a triple
number of those candidates who
have most votes, and from these
sent back to the Primary Assem
blies ; a definitive election is made,
each citizen giving in as before a
signed lift of the candidates to whom
he gives his preference.
In the deliberations of these As
semblies, the fame mode is to be
followed as in the elections. The
question is to be Shaped so as to bell
an fwered by a simple negative or
affirmative. On the day appointed
for the decision, each citizen gives
in a bulletin,or flip of paper, inferib
ed with his name, and the word „,
or #0; These are to be transmitted
[from the diftrift to the Department,
•where the general result is to be as
certained.
Administrative Bodies.
There shall be in each Depart
ment, an Administrative Council of
18 members ; and, in each diftrid,
an administration of 12 members,
with subordinate agencies. The
former are to controul the revenue,
and to correspond with the execu
tive government. The inferior ad
ministrations are not as yet organ
ized.
The Administrators are to be
eleded in the Primary Assemblies,
and the half renewed every two
years. ; ^ c^^ ^.ic^^.
^ + :^ ^ .—?.' n .. ~ A^hri^
Executive Council.
I. The executive Council of the
Republic shall be composed of seven
general Agents or Ministers, and a
Secretary.
11. ThereihaH be,
i.AMinifter of Legislation.
2. A Minister of War.
3. A Minister for foreign Affairs.
4. A Minister of Public Contri
butions.
5. A Minister of the Marine.
6. A Minister of Agriculture,
Commerce, and Manufactures.
7. A Minister of Works, Aids,
publick Eftablifhmentsf and Arts.
111. Each of the Ministers shall
alternately preside in the Executive
Council, arid th& President shall be
changed every fifteen days. To
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this Counil it belongs to execute all
the laws and all the decrees passed
by the Legislative Body.
The Ministers are to be chosen in
the Primary Assemblies, and in the
manner before 'defcribed.—Eight
/uppleans, or substitutes are to be
chosen at the fame time.
The members of the Council to
be chosen for two years. The half
shall be renewed every year ; but
they may be re-eleded.
The Executive Council are ac
countable to, and cannot be mem
bers of the Legislative Body. They
have no controul over the National
Treasury, which is to be directed
by three Commiffiopers appointed
for that purpose, and eluded in the
fame manner. Two hundred mem
bers are to be chofeu in the Legis
lative Body, of whom a Jury of
seven is to audit each account.
Legislative Body.
The Legislative Body is to con
sist of one chamber, and to be re
newed annually, by ele&ion, in thfe
manner before mentioned.
The number of deputies to be sent
from each department is to be new
ly fixed every ten years, according
to the increase pr decrease of the
population.
The members of the Legislative
Body shall not it any time be pros
ecuted, impeached or tried for any
thing which they may have said or
written in the exercise of their func
tions.
No proposition shall pass into a
law, unless it be firft proposed in
the Assembly, then referred to a
Committee of thirteen, and after
the interval of a fortnight, if the
time should permit, re-debated in
the Assembly.
Censorship of People.^
Under chiphead it is proposed,
that any Citizen shall have the right
of convoking the Primary Assem
bly where he re sides, to confider of
the enadment of a new, 01 the re
peal of an existing law. If they
agree to the propofio'o, they are to
addrels the people of other Assem
blies, and the with of the depart
ment thus colleded, is to be trans
mitted to and decided upon by the
Members atthe Legislative Body.
The Citizens IbaWkewife have
the right to demand afiinquiry into
the condua pf publick funftiona
ries, in case of abuse of power and
violation of the laws.
A Convention. , so
A Convention is to be summoned
whenever any change is made in the
Legislative Body. In the twentieth
year after the passing of the, con
stitutional code, a Convention shall
be called to revise and improve.
The Convention cannot hold its
fittings within fifty leagues of the
Legislative Body —lt shall be form
ed of /W 0 Members from each de
partment.
Administration of justice.
. In the civil as well as the crimi
nal code, the trial by Jury is to be
established. The jurors as well as
Judges are to beeledted. The form
er to be taken one from every hun
dred Citizens. The Jury to consist
of a Diredor, a Reporter, a Na
tional Conventioner, and a number
of Jurymen to be fpecified.
The punishment of Death is abo
lished for all private offences.
There are to be Juries, whole
fufflions correfppnd with those of
the Grand and Petty Juries in the
English Constitution.
Judiciahcenfors are to be appoint
ed to travel at fixed periods, and to
try all questions of appeal.
A National Jury consisting of
I three Jurors from each department,
is to try all questions of High Trea
son. ,
The arrest and detention of an
individual are qualified by a num-I
ber of minute regulations highly fa
vourable to per fonal liberty.
The Libert, of the Press is de
clared to be indefinite.
None can be judged either civil
ly or criminally, on account of wri
tings printed or published, except
it shall have been recognized arid
declared by a Jury, ift, whether
there is any criminality in the writ
ing denounced : 2dly, whether the
-person prosecuted is guilty of it.
r
, Publick Force;
The forces of the Republick is
placed under the controul of the
1 Executive Council. The publick
) force is declared tty be essentially
i obedient, as no armed body can
r deliberate.
: The Commanders in Chief are
)to have annual ,nd revocable com
mission from the Executive Coun
cil. , :
The Commanders of the Na
, tional Guards shall be elected annu'
t ally by the citizens in each diftrid.
f Publick Contributions.
The publick Contributions ought
? never to exceed the exigencies of
)the State.\
_ There cannot be established any
. Contribution, which by its nature or
_ by its mode of exadion, might be
e iojpripQto the free disposal of pro
perty, to the progress of industry
.and of commerce, to the circula
tion of capitals, or might produce
_ the Violation of the rights recogniz
jed and declared by the Conftitution^
The amount shall be fixed eaclq
year by the Legislative Body, and]
cannot exceed that term. They are
to be published annually.
Relation to Foreign Powers.'
, The French.will only take up arms
for the fake of their liberty: It re
nounces all accession of territory, ।
unless by the wish, freely expressed,
of its inhabitants.
The Declaration of War shall be j
made by the Legislative Body
Treaties of Peace, Commerce /^
Alliance, shall be made by •'
ecutive Council, and r^
Legislative Body, & i^^l
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