Meeting of the Estates-General, 17809. 69 
division among the orders was carefully observed. On June 
19, when the various committees were organized, the assembly 
chose thirty-two of its members to serve on this committee and 
the same number for the committee on food supplies.** June 22, 
when the clergy first joined, sixteen of them were added to the 
committee of verification,®® as were the sixteen nobles in this 
session. But in the matter of the committee on food supplies, 
the usual proportion of two from the commons and two from 
each of the upper orders seems to have been disregarded. Only 
ten of the clergy were named for this, just as for the committees 
on redaction and on rules, each of which had twenty members 
from the commons.*® After the change, all committees were 
notified to meet at five o’clock the same evening.*” 
The committee of verification was pushing its work as rapidly 
as possible, but every day was bringing new tasks. The Marquis 
of Toulongeon, deputy from the bailliage of Aumont in Franche- 
Comté, reported a contest relative to the deputation from that 
bailliage, which implicated himself, the Chevalier of Eclans, 
and Bureau de Puzy. They wished to leave the decision to 
the national assembly and, pending its judgment, they asked 
that they might not be counted in the list of nobles that had 
joined. Naturally, this matter was referred to the committee 
of verification.®® 
Four members of this committee, Grégoire, Bouchotte, Garat, 
Sr., and Tronchet, acquainted the assembly with the work done 
on credentials since the previous day.®? The report first dealt 
with some members of the third estate. The papers of some 
deputies from Castlemoron d’Albret, and from Besancon, which 
had not been presented at the roll-call of June 13 and 14, had 
been found to be in proper form, so the assembly granted these 
delegates permanent instead of provisional seats. A re-examina- 
54 Procés-verbal, No. 2, 3-4. 
55 Tbid., No. 4, 9. ¢ 
56 Thid., No. 2, 3-4; No. 7, 17-18. 
57 Tbid., No. 7, 17. 
perlbid.. NO. 7.15. 
59 Tbid., No. 7, 20-24. The complete report of the committee of verification 
is found on these pages. 
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