98 Jeanette Needham. 
had learned that the national assembly would not compromise 
itself by any recognition of another legislative body. 
But before all these matters had come before the assembly, 
the committee of verification had begun its report, apparently 
just after the deputation of electors had been received.*® This 
day the contest in the Dauphiné delegation and the declaration 
of Lally-Tolendal, found with his credentials, seemed to vary 
somewhat the monotony of the uninteresting but. necessary 
report. Bouchotte began by presenting the papers of seventeen 
clergy and nobles which were correct and which the assembly 
ratified. Two others of the clergy, Blandin from Orléans and 
Delettre from Soissons, brought only the record of their oath 
of office in which their election was announced. The assembly 
gave them the customary two weeks in which to secure the 
proper papers; meantime they had a provisional seat. The 
deputies of the commons from Douai and Orchiex, who had 
made a similar blunder earlier, had presented their real creden- 
tials to the committee, so they were voted a permanent seat.®” 
Thibault, another member of the committee, notified the 
assembly that the credentials of M. de Coulmiers, the Abbé 
d’Abbecourt, deputy from the Prévété of Paris, were in correct 
form and he was recognized as a lawful deputy.®? M. Bluget 
announced that the credentials of another group of seven clergy 
and nobles were regular. They also were pronounced deputies 
by the assembly.*® 
But previous to this, the ordinary course of business had been 
interrupted when Bouchotte laid before the assembly a declara- 
tion he had found among the credentials. It emanated from 
Lally-Tolendal and explained his situation. Consequently, his 
56 Procés-verbal, No. 8, 6-15; Point du jour, 1, 55; Duquesnoy, I, 133; 
Assemblée nationale, 1, 236, Courrier de Provence,, Lettre XIV, 2-3. The first 
two indicate that the report began after the electoral deputation had been 
received and the Assemblée nationale gives the same order. Duquesnoy 
mentions it first, but he does not strictly adhere to the actual order of oc- 
currence. The report may have begun early and then have been discontinued 
as other matters engaged the attention of the assembly from time to time. 
57 Procés-verbal, No. 8, 6-7, 11-12. 
58 Procés-verbal, No. 8, 12. 
59 Procés-verbal, No. 8, 12-13. 
