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declared to be abolished by these 
presents. if 
That we assure ourselves, by this 
declaration, all the extorted and’ 
illegitimate oaths on the soi-disant 
ancient constitution, prescribed in 
1787 and 1788, become in fact of 
no value, inasmuch as such an 
oath ought to have been previously 
binding ; but to tranquillise all and 
each, we declare besides, in the 
name of the people of Holland, as 
it is well and-expressly declared by 
these presents, that all citizens who 
may have taken the above oath are 
hereby discharged therefrom. 
That in the same manner the 
college (as the ci-devant deputy 
ceunsellors of the Southern and 
Northern Quarter were called), the 
division ot the economical admi- 
nistration in regard to finances, &c. 
and the chamber of accounts, are 
entirely incompatible with these 
principles, as they all resulted from 
the old detective form of govern. 
ment, in which there was no real 
representation whatever, and con. 
sequently we have judged it to be 
our duty to suppress and abolish 
them all; and we now suppress 
and abolish them accordingly by 
these presents, and establish and 
appoint a committee of public 
safety, a military committee, a 
committee of finance, and a com- 
mittee of accounts, the whole pro- 
visionally, and only until definitive 
arrangements shall be made on 
these subjects by an assembly of 
representatives, chosen by all the 
people, who shall be convoked for 
that purpose as speedily as possible ; 
that besides, we have not thought 
it fit to attach any ‘other title to 
our present assembly than that of 
provisional representatives of the 
poople of Holland, without adding 
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to it the name of West Friesland, 
having judged that it would be 
better to comprehend the entire pro- 
vince of Holland under that deno- 
mination. ‘ 
We will and ordain expressly 
the courts of justice in this pro. 
vince, as well as the regency of 
the cities and blessed places situ- 
ated in it, that our present publi- 
cation shall be. made known to all 
the citizens of this province by 
the sounding of trumpets and ring- 
ing of bells, and such other so- 
lemn manner as shall be judged the 
most convenient in each city or 
place, and that it shall be posted 
up according to custom, and that 
each one shall conform himself to it 
precisely. 
Done at the Hague under, the 
small seal of the country, the 31st 
of January, 1795, the first year of 
Batavian liberty. 
(Signed) P. Pautus, Vt. 
D.J.ve Lancs Van WinGAERD2- 
Proclamation of the French Commis- 
siners at the Hague, issued ou the 
27th of Fanuary, 1995. 
EGALITE, 
UNITE, INDIVISIBILITE, 
LIBERTE, 
FRATERNITE, 
Hague, the 7th Pluviose, the 3d year 
of the French Republic, one and 
indivisible. 
THE representatives of the peo. 
ple belonging to the armies of the 
North, of the’Sambre,-and of the 
Meuse, taking into their consider- 
ation, the wants of the army of the 
republic, and the necessity of sup- 
plying 
