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be executed according to their form 
and tenor. 
2; The decrees of the national 
convention of 1, 2, 6, 8,9, 11, 19, 
and 23° of March, which annexed 
to the French territory Hainault, 
Tournaisis, the country of Namur, 
and the majority of the communes 
of Flanders and Brabant, shall be 
in like manner executed. 
3. The national convention ac- 
cepts the wishes expressed in 1793, 
by the communes of Ypres Gram- 
mont, and other communes of 
Flanders, of Brabant, and that part 
of Austrian Gueldres not comprised 
in the said decrees, for their union 
with the French territory. 
. 4. All, the other countries, on 
this-.sJe,the-Rhine, which were, 
before the present war, under the 
dominion of Austria, and those 
which, have been resefved to the 
French Republic by the treaty con- 
cluded at the Hague, the 27th of 
last Floreal, between, their. pleni- 
_potentiaries and those of the re- 
public of the United Provinces, to 
_ which none of the dispositions of 
the present decree attach, shall be 
also united to the French territory. 
5- The inhabitants of the coun- 
tries of Liege, Stavelot, Logue, 
Malmidy, and those of the com- 
munes of Belgium, comprised in 
articles two and three of this de- 
cree, shall enjoy from the present 
moment all the rights of French 
citizens, provided they possess in 
other respects the qualifications re. 
guired by the constitution. 
6. With respect to the com- 
munes comprised in the fourth ar- 
ticle, the inhabitants, shall enjoy, 
until it shall be otherwise provided, 
allethe rights guaranteed by the 
‘constitution to’ Strangers who re. 
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side in’ France, or pawost property 
there. 
Patyd he countries. mentioned in 
the first four articles. of the present 
decree, shall be divided into nine 
departments, viz. the Dyle (Brus- 
sels, chief place); the Scheldt, 
(Ghent, chief place); Gemappes, 
(Mons, chief place); Des Forets, 
(Luxembourg, chief place); the 
Sambre and Meuse, (Namur, chief 
place) ; De Lourthe, (Liege, chief 
place) ; La Meuse Inferieure, (Maes. 
tricht, chief place); Des Deux 
Nettes, (Antwerp, chief place) : 
La Lys, (Bruges, chief place). 
8. The representatives of the 
people sent to Belgium, are charged 
with fixing the different boundaries 
of these departments, and todivide 
them ‘into cantons like other parts 
of the republic, 
. They shall nominate provi- 
sionally, the funétionaries who shall 
‘compose the administrations of the 
departments, those of the cantons, 
and the tribunals of the countries 
of Limbourg, Luxembourg, Maes- 
tricht, Venloo, and their’ depen- 
dencies, with Dutch Flanders. 
10. The legislative body shall 
determine, the number of repre. 
sentatives of the people each of 
the departments formed, according 
to article 7; shall nominate, con- 
formably to the constitution, at the 
epoch of its renewal, which shall 
take place the fifth year of the re- 
public, 
11. The representatives of the 
people, sent to Belgium, shall take 
care that the extraordinary contri- 
butions levied on these countries, 
and forming their contingent of 
the expences of the war and liberty, 
be levied and paid. 
12, The custom-houses now ex- 
isting, 
