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mitted unless accompanied with 
certificates, that they are the pro- 
duce of countries, at peace with 
France. 
XV. Certificates shall be deli- 
vered by the French consuls, or by 
the public offices; they shall con- 
tain a formal attestation that the 
articles have been manalactured in 
the said country, and shail menticn 
the name of the artist. 
_- XVI. In addition to the penal- 
ties above pronounced, the names, 
sirnames, ages, professions, and 
places of abode of the violators of 
the law and of their agents, shall 
by the special interference of the 
minister of the interior, be stuck 
up in all public places, and inserted 
in the periodical papers, under the 
eneral title of brokers of Eng- 
aie destroyers of French industry. 
For this purpose the commissioners 
of the executive direfory, with 
the tribunals of correctional police, 
shall be bound to send to the mi- 
nister of the interior the names, 
sirnames, ages, professions, and 
places of abode, of all those against 
whom they shall have pronounced 
sentence in conformity to the pre. 
sent law. 
XVII. All the reguintions of 
the former laws, contrary to the 
present, are repealed. 
The above resolutions were af- 
terwards sanctioned py the council 
of ancients, 
Message of the Executive DireGory | 
to the Council of Five Hundred. 
20 Frimaire, Dec. 10. 
THE multiplied wants of the 
republic call imperiously upon you 
to display and employ all her re- 
sources. You are not ignorant, 
that every branch of the public 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1706. 
service experiences the utmost dis- 
tress. The pay of the troops re- 
mains unsettled; the defenders of 
the country suffer all the horrors 
of nakedness ; their courage is de- 
creased by the. painful sense ‘of 
their wants; the disgust arising 
from them naturally occasions de- 
sertion ; the hospitals are in want 
of fuel, medicines, and all other 
necessaries ; the public alms and 
workhouses experience the same 
want, and for this reason they re- 
jet the needy and infirm citizens, 
who usually found an asylum in 
them, The creditors of the state, 
the contra€tors, who daily supply 
the wants of the armies, with 
great difficulty obtain only a small 
part of the sums due to them, and 
the distress which they experience 
on this account deters others who 
might supply these wants with 
more exattness, and on terms more 
advantageous for the republic. The 
public roads are impassable, and 
the communications interrupted. 
The salaries of the public func. 
tionaries remain unpaid. From 
one end of the republic to the 
other, the judges and administra- 
tors are reduced to the dreadful 
dilemma, cither to expose them- 
selves and their families.to the ut- 
most misery, or disgracefully to 
sell themselves te intriguers. The 
disaffected agitate every part of 
the republic; murder and assassi- 
nation are organized in many 
places, and the administration of 
police, without activity and with- 
out force from want of provisionary 
means, is unable to check these dis. 
orders. : 
It is in your power to make this 
affiictive pifture disappear ; you 
can diffuse new life through all 
the parts of the public administra- 
tion, 
