iGo 
and with the payers established in 
the departments. To maintain 
with the said receivers and payers 
with the boards and administra- 
tions, the correspondence necessary 
for assuring the exaét and regular 
paying in of money. 
318. They can pay nothing 
under penalty of forfeiture, but by 
virtue,—-1. Of a decree of the le- 
gislative body, and to the amount 
of the sum decreed by it for each 
objeét.—z. Of adecision of the di- 
rectory.—3. OF the signature of 
the minister who direéts the ex. 
petice; 
319. They cannot, under pe- 
nalty of forfeiture, approve of pay. 
mént, if the mandate signed by the 
minister, who direcis the expence, 
do not set forth the date, the de 
tision of the executive direftory, 
and the decrees of the legislative 
body, which authorize the payment. 
320. The receivers of dire& con. 
tributions in each department, the 
different national boards, and the 
peyers in the departments, give 
in to the national treasury their re- 
spective accounts ; the treasury au- 
dits and passes them. 
221, There are five commis- 
saries of national accounts, elected 
by the legislative body at the same 
periods, and according to the same 
farms. and conditions. as the com. 
missaries of the treasury. 
322, The general account of re. 
ceipe and expenditure of the re. 
public, with the particular ac. 
courts and documents, is presented 
hy the commissaries:of the treasury 
to the commissaries of accounts, 
who audit and pass them. 
(393. The commissarits of ac. 
counts give notice to the legislative 
body of abuses, malversations, and 
‘all cases of résponsibility, which 
they discover in the course of their 
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operations ; they propose medsures; 
suitable to the interests of the re. 
public. 
324. The result of the accounts: 
passed by the commissaries of acs, 
counts, is printed and made publics 
325. The commissaries of the 
national treasury and accounts. 
cannot be suspended or removed 
but by the legislative body. . But 
during the adjournment of the le. 
gislative body, the executive direc. 
‘tory may suspend and replace pro- 
visionally the commissaries of the 
national treasury, to the number of 
two at most, but are bound to refer 
them to both councils of the legis. 
lative body, as soon as they have 
resumed their sittings. -' 
Title XII.—Exvernal Relations. 
326. War cannot be decided 
upon but by a decree of the legis. 
lative body, upon the formal and 
necessary proposition of the exe. 
cutive dire¢ctary. 
327. The two legislative coun... 
cils concur according to the ordi- 
nary forms in the decree, by 
which war is decided upon. 
328. In case of hostilities, im. 
minert, or actually commenced, 
of menaces, or preparations for 
war against the French republic, 
the executive directory is bound to. 
employ, for the defence of the state, 
the meuns at its disposal, charged, 
however, with communicating them 
without delay to the legislative 
body. It may even, in that case, 
point out the augmentation of 
force, and.the new legislative re- 
gulations, | which — circumstances 
"aay require. 
329. The direGtory alone can. 
maintain political relations abroad, 
conduét negotiations, distribute 
the land and naval forces as. it: 
judges 
