78 Jeanette Needham. 
rising vote that the president alone should present it to the 
king.® 
The fact that the adoption of the decree itself was made con- 
ditional in many cases led to the submission, by a large number 
of deputies, of statements explanatory of their action. One 
hundred ten members either had given a qualified support, 
voted no, or refused to participate in the deliberation at all.° 
The signers of the declarations submitted to the chamber number 
one hundred five individuals,!° but six of these had passed in 
protests on other matters prior to the vote on the decree." 
Because of the nature of their protests, however, doubtless these 
six were in the same position with reference to the decree, as 
were the ninety-nine who made explanations after the decree 
was passed. 
Fifty declarations in all are appended to the minutes of the 
session of June 25.12 All but four were passed in on that date, 
and these four came in the next day.'* Twenty-two are signed 
by only one noble, who, in every case, was the sole representative 
of his bailliage;'* nineteen bear from two to seven signatures, 
each group including all the deputies of the nobility allotted to 
that particular district; in four cases only part of the deputies 
8 Procés-verbal . . . de la noblesse, 269. The record of the vote follows: 
“94 ont été pour le oui; 68 pour le oui, avec acte; 17 pour la pluralité, avec 
acte; 9 pour la pluralité,” a total of 188 votes for the measure. Besides there 
were ‘‘ 16 sans voix; 2 pour non; 7 pour non et acte.” 
9 Computation based on figures of vote. 
10 Procés-verbal , . . de la noblesse. Piéces annexées a la trente troisiéme 
séance, 270-294. 
11 Procés-verbal . . . de la noblesse, 266. The first three declarations came 
in just after the reading of the letter from the nobles who joined the national 
assembly. 
12 Thid,, 270-294. 
18 Nos. 21, 26, 27, 40 came in on June 26. No. 2 is dated June 27, but 
evidently through error, for the contents refer to the deliberation on the 
king’s declaration as occurring hier. No. 2 simply bears the date of June, 
1789, but it came in on June 26. No. 79 is undated. 
14 Ascertained by reference to Brette, Les Constituants. The declarations 
are numbers 2, 3, 4, 6, 10, 14, 16, 21, 24, 25, 26, 27, 30, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37; 41, 
46, 49, 50. 
15 Nos; 1, '5,°7, 8,.0,;.12) 13) 15, 19,20, 22; 23, 26:31, .32)) 36) '30,.42.04 
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