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Gazette Of The United States & Evening Advertiser
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
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The French National Convention establishes a revolutionary provisional government until peace, subordinates executive bodies to the Committee of Public Safety, mandates rapid execution of safety measures, appoints generals, ensures subsistence provisions especially for Paris, regulates the revolutionary army, and creates a tribunal for financial accountability.
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The National Convention, after having heard the report of the Committee of Public Safety, decrees as follows:
GOVERNMENT.
Art. I. The Provisional Government of France is revolutionary, until peace.
II. The Provisional Executive Council, the Ministers, the Generals, the Constituted Bodies, are placed under the superintendence of the Committee of Public Safety, which shall render an account of their proceedings once in eight days, to the Convention.
III. Every measure of safety is to be taken by the Provisional Executive Council, under the sanction of the committee, which shall render an account thereof to the Convention.
IV. The revolutionary laws must be speedily executed; the government shall correspond immediately with the districts, as to the measures of public safety.
V. The Generals in chief shall be appointed by the National Convention, on the presentation of the Committee of Public Safety.
VI. The tardiness of government being the cause of the miscarriage of operations, the term for the execution of the laws and of the measures of public safety shall be fixed. The transgression of the fixed term, shall be punished as an attempt against liberty.
SUBSISTENCE.
VII. The statement of the productions in corn of each district, made to the committee of public safety, shall be printed and distributed to all the members of the Convention, to be put into execution without delay.
VIII. The provisions necessary for each department, shall be estimated by approximation, and guaranteed. The supplies shall be subject to requisition (at the disposal of government.)
IX. The statement of the productions of the Republic shall be laid before the Representatives of the people, before the ministers of marine and home departments, and before the administrators of subsistence. They shall make demands in the different divisions respectively assigned to them. Paris shall form a distinct division.
X. The demands in favor of the barren departments, shall be authorized and regulated by the provisional executive council.
XI. Paris shall on the 1st of March be supplied with one year's provisions.
General Safety.
XII. The direction and employment of the revolutionary army shall be regulated without delay, in such a manner as to check the progress of the counter-revolutionists. The committee of public safety shall present a plan for this purpose.
Finances.
XIV. There shall be created a tribunal and a jury of responsibility. This tribunal and this jury shall be appointed by the National Convention; their office shall be to prosecute all those who have had the management of the public monies since the revolution, and to demand of them an account of their private fortune. The organization of this tribunal is referred to the committee of legislation.
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revolutionary government established until peace; authorities under superintendence; provisions guaranteed for departments including one year's supply for paris by march 1; revolutionary army to check counter-revolutionists; tribunal for prosecuting public money managers.
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The National Convention decrees: Provisional Government is revolutionary until peace. Executive Council, Ministers, Generals, and Constituted Bodies under Committee of Public Safety, reporting every eight days. Safety measures by Executive Council under committee sanction. Revolutionary laws executed speedily with correspondence to districts. Generals appointed by Convention on committee presentation. Fixed terms for law execution, transgression punished. Corn production statements printed and distributed. Provisions estimated and guaranteed per department via requisition. Production statements to representatives, ministers, administrators for demands; Paris distinct. Demands for barren departments authorized by Executive Council. Paris supplied with one year's provisions by March 1. Revolutionary army regulated to check counter-revolutionists, plan by committee. Tribunal and jury of responsibility created to prosecute public money managers since revolution and account for fortunes, organization to legislation committee.