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will authorize it to raise the thir- 
tieth horse in every part of the re- 
public. Experience assures the 
success of this measure; al! others 
will only have doubtfui conse. 
quences, slow, and attended with 
much expence, and the celia out 
2 prodigious quantity of specie. 
The directory had determined 
not to make to the legislative body 
the proposition of an extraordinary 
levy of horses till after the subject 
had been. long considered, and it 
shall-be sensible that there exist no 
other means of assuring the service, 
This levy shall be made hy the — 
administrative bodies. The legis- 
lative body mav itself state the 
mode of the execution, or leave it 
to the direétory, who will follow 
the most ceconomical and the least 
vexatious to the citizens ; whatever 
‘decision you may make in this 
respect, circumstances require that 
this measure may not be deferred. 
Citizens legislators, thedirectory 
invites the council to take the ob- 
ject of its demand into the most se- 
rious and the most prompt con- 
sideration. 
REWBELL, President. 
Messog> of the Executive Direfory 
of France to the Council of Five 
Hundred, respecting the Emission 
of Mandats Territoriaux. 
Citizens LeGisLatTors, 
YOUR resolution of the zath of 
this month relative to the creation 
of ‘ Territorial Mandats,” payable 
to the bearer, is one of those gram 
and happy measures, which at the 
most critical zras of the revolution, 
have operated to the welfare of the 
republic. But it would be fatal 
if you did not hasten to make an 
addition which is indispensable, 
by giving to those mandats a com. 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 
- Such would be the case, if it wer 
1796. 
would boch fall into equal 
preciation. The stock, jobbers 
would seize upon both, they woul 
plunder the nation of its demesnes, 
and the government of its re 
sources. 
Certainly when paper money hash 
but a remote, a doubtful, or insufp 
ficient security, nothing short off 
despotism can force its currency, 
intended to recall the assignats to} 
mass was reduced to the amount of 
the national property at the dispo- 
sal of government. But it would 
be a weak abandonment of the} 
rights of the people, to leave taf 
malignity and avarice to fix the} 
value of a mandat, which can be im. } 
mediately converted into real pro. 
perty at the choice of the bearer, 
amongst the best possessions of the 
republic. The citizens may be de- 
ceived as to their real interests by 
the cruel manceuvres of stock. 
obbing. They have been de. 
ceived, and will be so still, unless | 
their repensentatives foresee and 
warn them of the danger. 
Have you not been compelled to 
pronounce certain penalties against 
those who refused the republican 
money, though it was evidently of 
more value than that which bore 
the royal stamp? why should you 
hesitate to take the same part 
against those wha may wish to de~ 
preciate a paper which has more 
need of confidence, as it is not di- 
visible into small portions, and 
therefore less fitted for ordinary 
transactions? If you do not take 
this step, this paper must fall, 
and with its own, will infallibly 
cause the ruin of the assignats. > 
It 
