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that he judges it necessary to determine in what form the 

 request should be made. The deputies who considered them- 

 selves bound by imperative instructions were to "address them- 

 selves to the bailliage or senechaussee or their lieutenants ; or in 

 their absence to the oldest officer of the place so that all the 

 members of the order to which said deputies belonged and who 

 concurred in their elections might be convoked." The bailliage 

 or senechaussee or their lieutenants were then to " assemble with- 

 out delay, by invitation only, all the members of the order who 

 have concurred directly in the election of the deputies who formed 

 such a request; on the information which will be given of such 

 requests to the electors thus reassembled, they will take the action 

 necessary to give to their deputies fresh instructions, generous 

 and according to the letters of convocation and without any 

 limitations, his Majesty having formally prohibited them by Art. 

 VI of said declaration." The bailliage or senechaussee was also 

 to " prepare a proces-verbal of said assembly to contain the 

 deliberations which will be taken, turn the necessary papers over 

 to the deputies, send a copy to the guard of the seals and another 

 to the secretary of state of the province."^"- 



Many of the deputies of the nobles went to their bailliage to 

 explain the situation; some of them were desirous of new in- 

 structions, while others wished the imperative instructions to be 

 maintained.^"" The question of imperative instructions was not 

 formally brought before the assembly until July 3 when Target 

 introduced the question"* by suggesting that imperative instruc- 



^'^^ Assemblee nationale, I, 337; Gazette de Lcyde, No. 56 (July 4) ; Jour- 

 nal de Paris, No. 184 (July 3), 828. 



103 Gazette de Leyde, Sup. No. 56 (July 9) ; Duquesnoy, Journal, I, 172, 

 says : " On raconte que M. de Damas d'Anlezy, donnant sa demission, a 

 ecrit qu'il priait qu'on le tint pour mort. II circule une lettre fort plai- 

 sante, ecrite a un due qui avait demande a ses commettants' de confirmer 

 ses pouvoirs et de ne pas consentir a I'opinion par tete, attendu que la 

 monarchie est en peril; ils lui repondent en le felicitant sur la reunion 

 inesperee des trois orders." 



'^^'^ Journal de Paris, No. 186, 836 (July 5) ; Point du jour, I, 100; Bulle- 

 tins dc I'asscmhlce nationale, July 3; Assemhlec nationale, I, 336; Biauzat, 



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