of departments, where the energy 
of the republicans frustrated their 
attempts, the elections had been 
earried in their favour, and had in- 
troduced, into official situations, 
and even into the legislative body, 
aigrants, and other chiefs of rebels. 
“hus the constitution being at- 
tacked, by those whom it had par- 
ticularly appointed for its defence, 
and against whom it had taken no 
recaution, it was become impos- 
Ss to preserve it, without recur- 
‘ting to extraordinary measures. In 
‘or er, therefore, to obviate the de- 
signs of the conspirators, to prevent 
a civil war and its fatal conse- 
quences, to heal the wounds in- 
} fiicted on the constitution since the 
late election, and to secure the li+ 
berty and the internal tranquillity 
of the nation, from such imminent 
dangers, in future, strong and vi- 
gorous resolutions should be taken, 
peculiarly adapted to the uncom- 
mon occasion that required them, 
a with forms, were never- 
eless sufficientlyjustified by indis- 
pensible necesssitv. 
On these grounds, the council 
ipproved of the resolutions laid be- 
fore it, by the committee, for its 
acceptance, By these resolutions, 
the transactions of the primary, 
communal, and electoral, assem- 
blies, in no fewer than fifty depart- 
nents, were declared illegal, the 
sons elected by them to public of« 
ces, or to seats in the legislature, 
ere compelled to resign them, and 
directory empowered to nomi- 
mt to the vacancies thence occa- 
onéd in official places. The laws 
ely enacted to'favour the royalists, 
the emigrants, and their relations, 
repealed, and those enacted 
HISTORY OF EUROPE. 
notorious royalists, some of them | 
and which, though not strictly ac-° 
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against them confirmed and to re- 
main in force till four years after a 
general peace. No individual was 
admitted to vote in the primary or 
electoral assemblies, till he had pre- 
viously taken the oath of hatred to 
royalty, and of fidelity to the re- 
public and the constitution of the 
third year. Barthelemiand Carnot, 
members of the executive directory, 
eleven members of the council of 
elders, forty-two members of the 
council of fivé hundred, with ten 
other persons, were sentenced to 
transportation abroad, to any place 
appointed by the directory; and 
their property to be sequestered till 
their arrival at the place of exiie, 
when,the directory should be authoe 
rised to supply them, out of théir ef= 
fects, with the means of subsistence. 
All individuals inscribed upon the 
list of emigrants, and who had not 
obtained their erasement, were 
warned to leave the territory of the 
republic in fifteen days: after the ex- 
piratiou of which, if found upon it, 
they were to be tried before a mili- 
tary tribunal, and the sentence pro- 
nounced upon them to be executed 
within twenty-four honrs. Thelate 
law, recalling the banished priests, 
was revoked, and the directory in- 
vested with the power of ordering 
those priests to be transported, who 
disturbed the public tranquillity. 
Ecclesiastics, authorised toremain in 
the territory of the republic, were 
required to take the oath of hatred 
to royalty, and of fidelity to the re- 
public. Every person officially bound 
to enforce the execution of the laws 
relating to the emigrants and priests, 
and who either prevented or impe- 
ded them, was to suffer two years 
imprisonment in irons. No juries 
whatever were to enter upon the 
exercise of their fanctions, till they 
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