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jes Basses-Pyrennées, Les Hautes- 
Pyrennées, les Pyrennées-Orientales, 
Je Bas-Rhin, le Haut-Rhin, le 
Rhone, Ja Haute-Saone, Saone-et- 
Loire, la Sarthe, la Seine, la Seine. 
Inferieure, Seine-et-Marne, Seine- 
et.Oise, les deux Sevres, la Somme, 
le Tarn, le Var, Vaucluse, la 
Vendée, Ja Vienne, la Haute- 
Vienne, les Vosges, |’ Yonne. 
4- The limits of departments 
may be changed or reCtified by the 
degislative body ; but in this case, 
the surface of a department cannot 
exceed one hundred square myri- 
ametres (400 square leagues, of 
2566 toises aritys 
5- Each department is distri- 
buted into cantons, each canton 
into communes. The cantons 
retain their present limits. Their 
limits may nevertheless be changed 
or rectified by the legislative body ; 
but, in this case, there cannot bé 
more than one myriametre (two 
leagues of 2566 toises each) from 
the most distant commune to the 
chief place of the canton. 
6. The French colonies are in- 
tegrant parts of the republic, and 
supject to the same constitutional 
law. 
9. They are divided’ into de- 
partments as follow ; The island of 
St. Domingo, the legislative body 
of which shall settle the division 
into four departments at least, or 
six at most. Guadaloupe, Marie- 
Galante, la Desirade, les Saintes, 
and the French part of St. Martin ; 
Martinico; French Guiana and 
Cayenne; St. Lucia and Tobago, 
The isle of France, les Seychelles, 
Roderigue and the establishments 
of Madagascar. The isle of Reu. 
nion. The East Indies, Pondicher- 
ry ,{Chandernagore, Mahe, Karical, 
and other establishments. 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 
1795. 
Title I1.— Political state of Citizen#, 
8. Every man born and resident 
in France, who being twenty-one 
years of age, has inscribed his name 
on the civic register of his canton, 
and who has lived afterwards one 
year on the territory of the republic, 
and who pays a’ dire¢t contribution, 
real or personal, is a direct citizens 
g. Are citizens without any 
condition of contribution, French 
men who have made one or more 
campaigns for the establishment of 
the republic. 
10. A foreigner becomes a French 
citizen when, after having attained 
the age of twenty-one years, acd 
having g declared his intention of 
settling i in France, he had resided 
there for seven years following, 
provided he pays a dire€&t contri- 
bution, and moreover possesses 4 
real property, or an establishment 
in agriculture or commerce, or has 
married a French woman. 
it. French citizens alone can 
vote in the primary assemblies, and 
be cailed to the fun@tions establish. 
ed by the constitution. 
12. The exercise of the rights of 
a citizen is lost: —1. by naturali- 
zation in a foreign country. 2% 
By affiliation with any foreign cor- 
poration, which supposes distinc. 
tions of birth, or requires religious 
vows. 3. By the acceptance of 
functions, or of pensions; offered 
by a foreign government. 4. By 
condemnatiou to corporal or in. 
famous punishment until recapa- 
citation. 
13. The exercise of the rights of 
citizens is suspended :—1. By a 
judicial interdi€t on account of in- 
sanity, idiotism, or imbecility. 2. 
By a-state of bankruptcy, or being 
an immediate heir,. and detaining 
gratuitously, the whole or a 
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