Jenks's Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland [Me.]) 1799-1802, 1800-03-31
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Ne50 French Contribution.
CHAPTER I.

THE French Republic

MT i aud individble.
rs European territory is distributed into de
parsments and communal di1rieis.
:. Every man horn and reGdent in France,
ard If the age of II years, who has inicrlbed
ms name in The civic regiiter of his communal
d,lria, and afterwards remained year on the
terii err Of The French Republic, is French
citizen.
4. A foreigner becomes French citizen,
who after having attained he age Of ~ years,
and declared bis intention Of fixing his refidence
IN France, and has relided there for 70 fuceef
Eve years.
A. The tile Of French citizen is forfeited
By naturalization in foreign country.
By accepting any Office or peniion from
foreign government.
By aHimilAtion with any foreign corporation
which fuppofss didind ions of birth.
By condemnation 10 corporal or infamous
puniihmerts. :,
citizen is fufpended by bankruptcy, OF BY a
total OF partial fueceifion to the property OF an
infolyent.
By ftate of hired fervi,ude, either attached
% the fervice Of the perfon OF the family.
BY Gate of judicial Introduction, aeeuiahon,
or contumacy.
6, In order to exercife the right of eitizenihip
they mutt have been acquired by being DOM.
oiated by years refiience, and not forfeited
bya years abfence.
=. The citizens of every communal diRriet
fhall appoint by their fnfffages, thoie whom
they Thick mott worthy Of con irttlng the pub
lie affairs. There hal be Int of confidence,
containing a number OF names equal 10 tepth
of the number of citizens peaeiing the right
of fuffraee. From this hfit com munal lit the
public funetionaries of diarids fhall be taken,
8 The citizens eompriied IN the communal
lbs of department. ihall alto appoint tenth
of their number. Theie ihall continue ie-
cond lit, called the department liz from which
sbe public fundionArics of each department
ihall be taken.
a. The citizens included in the de
matrimonial lit fhall ALTO appoint tenth OF
their number this third llt ihall coniiit OF the
citizens of each department, eligible to pubic
national funttions.
10. The ci.izens who fhall have right OF
cooperating in the information OF any OF the
lifts mentioned in the three preceding articles,
fhall every third year be called upon to exerciie
the power of replacing tkole who fhall have
died, or abfentcd themlelves for any other
cauie than the cfe of public function.
II. They may alto withdraw from the lifts
,hofe whom rhey ihall not Judge proper to
continue, and replace them By other citizens in
whom they may have greater confidence.
II. No one ihall be esafed from the Tits,
otherwife than by the votes Of the decive ma.
iori,y of the citizens, having the right of CO.
operating in the formation.
IA. No one ihall be GRATED from the lin of
thofe eligible to public national functions,
merely becaufe his name may have been truck
out of a liz OF an inferior or hyperion degree.
IA. The appointment to the lit of eligibles
is only necelIary with regard TO public iuuet'
ions, for which that condition is expressly re-
quired by the contribution or by the law. Al
the lifts of the eligibles lhall be formed in the
eourie of the 9th year.