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G..L. Rouse, 
B. P. Van LELtyveE.Lp. 
Undersigned, by reason of the 
absence of the. greflier. 
(Signed) 
Prcelamation at the Hague, 1th 
Pluviose, 30 Fanuary, 1795, the 
third Year of the French Republic, 
one ana indivisible, 
THE representatives of the 
French people, with the armies of 
the North, the Sambre, and the 
Meuse, decree as follows :— 
Art. 1. All goods, both move- 
able and immoveable, ships, mer. 
chandize, claims, and property of 
any kind whatever, belonging to 
governments at war with the French 
republic, or of French emigrants ; 
likewise those of priests, monks, 
members of churches, or spiritual 
corporations, having emigrated 
from the conquered provinces be- 
tween the Rhine and the sea; also 
all goods whatever given in trust by 
members of churches and corpora- 
tions, are seized and confiscated 
for the benefit of the French repub- 
tie, 
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All such persons as are 
debtors, concealers, or detainers of - 
what is mentioned in the above 
article, are to give inventories of 
the same to the magistrates of their 
circuits, within eight days after 
the publication of these presents, ° 
All such as negle¢t to conforin 
themselves to it, are to pay a fine of 
double the value of the article of 
which they have not given in any 
account as above stated. 
The fourth part of the fine, and 
likewise one-fourth of the value of 
the goods not declared, shall belong 
to the discoverers and informers. 
3. An agent-general shall be ap. 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1795. 
pointed for all the United Provinces, 
who is to colleét all the above in- 
ventories, and dispose of the things 
mentioned therein, according to 
the instructions he shall receive 
from the representatives cf the peo- 
ple. 
The magistrates are to deliver to 
him all the declarations made to 
them. 
4. It is forbidden to accept of 
any notes or bills of exchange, or 
to make any negotiations or loans 
for or on account of governments 
at war with the French republic, 
upon pain of confiscation of the 
whole value of such objects. 
The transgressors of this shall be 
considered and dealt with as enc- 
mies of the French republic. 
5. It is forbidden to all civil and 
militay agents of the French re- 
public, to seize upon any treasure 
belonging to towns, communes, or 
to the government of the United 
Netherlands, upon pain of arrest. 
6. What has been decreed by 
these presents shall be addressed to 
the States General, desiring them to 
send it to the respeétive states of 
the United Provinces, in ordet to be} 
printed in both languages, and to be 
sent to, and posted up, without 
delay, in all the towns, communes, 
and ports of the United Provinces. 
Signed upon the original, 
- Ns. HaussMAnn, 
Jousert, and Roperjor. 
Conformable to the original, 
(Signed) Ns. Haussmann. 
a ES 
Proclamation of the Provisional Repre- 
sentatives of the People of Ams 
sterdam. ‘ 
LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY 
Citizens, 
WHEN, on the rgth of Jeg 
, ast, 
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