46] ANNUAL REGISTER, 1800. 



For the punctual payment of the 

 interest, and the prizes, the personal, 

 moveable, and sumptuary contribu- 

 tions were to be responsible, to the 

 amount of fifteen millions. 



In order to redeem the capital of 

 tlie territorial inscriptions arising 

 from the present law, they were to 

 be received as part payment for the 

 national domains, to the amount of 

 one hundred and fifty millions, and 

 until the twent}'- third of September 

 of the ninth year. Every bearer of 

 national inscriptions might at will 

 insist during that interval, on the 

 sale of any particular national do- 

 main, on the condition of his acqui- 

 escing in the estimate of the twen- 

 tieth penny, in consequence of the 

 revenue arising out of the authentic 

 leases that existed in 1 790, or in de- 

 fault of such leases, in consequence 

 of a contradictory estimate made by 

 appraisement — Every bearer of 

 national inscriptions, who should 

 become a proprietor of natiojial 

 domains, should cease to receive the 

 interest of six per cent, beginning 

 after the half year after liis pur- 

 chasing the same. But the num- 

 ber of notes, the capital of whicli 

 should be tlius redeemed, to par- 

 take in the drawing of tlie prizes 

 and other benefits; and the bearers 

 of those notes to enjoy whatever 

 should have fallen, or might fall, to 

 their lot, during the two years fixed 

 by the present law. — The national 

 domains, situated in what was lately 

 called Belgium, to remain disposed 

 of for the payment of former loans, 

 and for tlie payment of pensions 

 granted to religious bodies and 

 communities suppressed in these 

 departments. — The bearers of the 

 territorial inscriptions, not i-edecm- 

 ed on tlie twenty-third of Septem- 

 ber of the ninth year, by the pur- 



chase and payment of the hundred 

 and fifty millions on the national 

 domains to be allotted to them by 

 the present law, to have the choice 

 of a permanent interest of five per 

 cent on the capital of their terri- 

 torial inscriptions, or a right to the 

 repayment of it by annuities within 

 the term of twenty years. 



The means for raising what 

 farther sums were wanted, were 

 chiefly additional taxes laid on ex- 

 penditure, or the various subjects 

 of indirect contribution ; a mea- 

 sure which would not oppress the 

 poor, and could not justly be com- 

 plained of by the nch. Duties 

 were laid on cider, perry, and beer, 

 and also malt. Some lands, yet to 

 be disposed of, and some woods, 

 were to be sold in Belgium ; as 

 also some salt-pits, and salt-works, 

 formerly the property of the crown. 



It was also ordained that the 

 receivers-general should subscribe 

 obligations, from the twentj'^-first of 

 March ensuing, ensuring the direct 

 contributions of the year 8, at 

 twelve difierent payments ; that 

 they should make payment of these 

 obligations in specie; that they 

 should be payable at the house of 

 the receiver on a day which was 

 fixed, and by a twelfth part of the 

 amount monthly. The receivers- 

 general of the department were 

 bound to furnish, in specie, a secu- 

 rity equal to the trt-entieth part of 

 the land-tax of their respective 

 departments. The funds rising 

 from the securities thus given by 

 the receivers-general, were destined 

 to make good the payment of pro- 

 tested exchequer bills, or treasury- 

 warrants, and succes.sively applied 

 as a sinking fund for the extinction 

 (if tlie public debt. The arrears of 

 life annuities and ecclesiastical pen- 



