Jenks's Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland [Me.]) 1799-1802, 1800-03-31

it is ordered IDLY, that il ifues from func-
fioaary to whom the law has formally given
that power 3dly. that it be notified to tht
perioo arreaed, and copy OF it leit with him.
78 No keeper or goaler can receive or de.
tain any pefsn, without having frf tranicrib
ed on his RICHTER the al ordering his arreR.--
This af mutt be mandate, given in the forms
preieribed by the preceding article, or war
rant for taking the body, or a decree of aecuia
ton, or judgement.
70. Every keeper or jailer is bound, without
any order being able to difpenfe with it, TO re.
prefcat the perion in his cutody to the civil
officer having the police Of the hoafe Of deten
ton, whenever this officer ihal demand zach
account.
SO. A representation of perfon in cuRody
fhall not be refufed to his parents and friends,
carrying an order from the civil officer who
fhall be obliged always to grant it, unlefs the
keeper or jaiier produces an order of Judge
to keep The prifoner iecret.
81. All thofe who not being vaned by the
law with the power of arreRing, ihan give, fgn,
or execute the arref of any perton whatever
all thofe who, even in the cafe of arrelt author.
led by law, ihall receive or detain the perion
a:relted in place of confinement not publicly
aud legally defgnated as iuch and all keepers
or goalers who fhall atf contrary to the dilpo
ftions of the three proceeding articles, ihall be
guilty of arbitrary detention.
81. All feverities afed in arref, detentions,
or executions, other than thofe commanded by
the laws, are crimes.
s.. Every perfon has right of addrefling
private petitions to every conititute d authority,
and particularly to the tribunaie.
3d. The public force is necelarily in Gate
of obedience; no armed body can deliberate.
IS. Military crimes are fubeded to fpecial
tribunals, and particular forms, of judgment.
&c. The French nation declares, that it will
grant penfons to all military wounded in de-
fence Of their country, and alto to the widows
and children of fuch military as have died on
the field OF battle, or in confequenee of their
wounds.
81. It fhall decree national rewards to the
warriors who ihall have rendered diiiinguilhsd
fervces in fighting for the Republic.
IS. A contributed body cannot deliberate
except in G.,ing, at which two thirds of its
members, at Leaf, are preient.
SO. A national inltitute is charged with re-
eeivng discoveries, and perfeeing the arts and
licences.
90 committee of national comptabilite
regulates and veri6es the accounts of the re-
ceipts and e1pences of the republic. This
committee is competed of feven members chof.
en- by the fenate from their national liz.
o.. The regime of the French colonies is
determined by fpecial laws.
o.. In cafe Of the revolt of an armed body,
or of troubles which menace the fafety Of the
Rate the law may flfpend in the places and for
the time it determines, the empire of the con.
Rituton.
The fufpenfon may be provilionally declared
in the fame cafes, by an aIrette of Government,
the Legislative body not being fitting, provided
this body be convened at avery ihort term by
an article of the fame arrette.
o. The French nation declares. that in no
cafe will it fuffer the return Of the French who,
having abandoned their country lince I780 are
not compriled in the exceptions contained in
the laws againa emigrant, 1t interd:ts every
new exception on this point.
The property of migrants rrevocably be
long to the republic.
o. The French nation declares that after a
fale legally completed of national property
whatever may Be its origin, the lawful purchafe
cannot be difpoG- fed, faving the right of third
perfons, if fuch there fhould be, claiming 10 be
unidentified out of the public treafury.
o.. The preleut contribution fhall be offered
forthwith for the acceptance OF the French
people.
Done a, Paris the AID Frimsre, (Dec. ~
in the 9Th year of the French Republic,
one and indiviible.
1.-THE 6gnatures of the members OF the leg.
iflAtive committees and coniuls tollow.)