STATE PAPERS, 
tion, and re-establish the social 
harmony, the springs of which are 
impeded, but not destroyed. 
An important work, a simple 
work, but which tends dire@ly to 
the end which you will wish to 
propose to yourselves, has already 
heen presented to you on this sub- 
jet, and you have adopted it. 
Wise principles, equitable bases, 
have been submitted to you for the 
establishment of contributions, and 
means sufficient to provide for the 
ordinary and extraordinary ex- 
pences, which the consolidation of 
the republic and the happiness of 
the people require. 
- But until the laws which you 
are to lay down on those bases are 
enacted, until the reimbursements 
are in aétivity, until by a certainty 
of receipts the necessary order can 
be established for giving an invari- 
able application to every branch 
of the public revenue; waiting the 
happy instant which is near, if you 
choose, you ought by a provisional 
resource to foster and re-animate 
all; you must restore motion to 
the divers departments of admini- 
stration, which all hold together, 
and second each other, and which 
_ it becomes indispensable to extri« 
cate from the dangerous state of de. 
cline in which they are plunged. 
(Here the directory points out 
the employments of the arrears 
due upon the last fourth part of 
the national domains sold by the 
law of the 28th Ventose, as the 
means of obtaining that desirable 
end; every purchaser of national 
domains, by virtue of the said law, 
who has not paid the whole amount 
of his purchase, is to pay the same 
in bills payable to order, and in 
ready specie, ten days after the pro. 
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mulgation of a law to be passed for 
the purpose, in his department ; 
those sums are to be paid at the 
expiration of each term of payment 
stipulated, unless the purchaser will 
come forward sooner with his pay- 
ments, and thus benefit his capital 
by receiving interest. The bills or 
securities are to be mortgaged upon 
the property bought by the pur- 
chaser, who, in case of default, is 
to suffer forfeiture; the estate is, 
of course, to be put up.to sale by 
auction, If any administration neg- 
lects to enforce this payment, by 
putting up the estate to sale, its 
members are to be personally res 
sponsibie. The bills thus issued’by 
the purchasers‘of national domains 
as aforesaid, are not to have any 
forcible circulation, but they are 
to pass by confidence, at the re. 
sponsibility of the drawers and en. 
dorsers, for metallic specie, their 
actual and natural value being 
mortgaged and secured upon the 
value of the estates in payment of 
which they were issued), 
Barras, President. 
Proclamation published by Citizen 
Salicetti, the Commitsary of Go. 
vernment with the Armies of Italy 
and the Alps, to the Citizens of 
the Department of Corsica. 
CiTIzENs, 
AFTER a train of events, as 
extraordinary as calamitous, you 
are at length restored to the unity 
of the republic. I am now, in the 
name of the government, to bear 
to you the tidings of peace and 
consolation ; the constitutional ad, 
which the people of France have 
accepted, will soon be presented 
to you, and your happiness will 
depend only on your execution of 
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