The Counter Revolution of June— July 5 i 



Another report given by Salomon July 10 for the committee on 

 verification concerned the nobles of Bordeaux. There were two 

 deputations from Bordeaux ; the first deputation had been chosen 

 by the majority of nobles while the second had been chosen in an 

 assembly of the minority of nobles. The assembly voted that the 

 first deputation should be received.-'* 



Another difificulty for the committee concerned the deputation of 

 San Domingo. On June 13 the Maitjuis Gouy d'Arsy said that 

 San Domingo had been omitted from roll call although they had 

 " presented a request " on June 8. The credentials of the San 

 Domingo delegation were submitted June 13 to the twentieth 

 bureau for verification-'^ and on June 14 this bureau reported that 

 the credentials of these representatives were incomplete, that the 

 electors had not been convoked by the king. The assembly post- 

 poned action on the question until after the assembly was consti- 

 tuted.^^" On June 20, the president announced that the com- 

 mittee on verification had unanimously agreed on the provisional 

 admission of twelve deputies from San Domingo. The assembly 

 decided that these twelve deputies should be admitted provision- 

 ally. Consequently they took the famous tennis court oath and 

 signed the decree.^'^^ On June 27, Prieur, as reporter for the com- 

 mittee on verification, presented the question of the San Domingo 

 delegation to the assembly and stated that two things should be 

 considered ; first, whether the assembly wished to admit a delega- 

 tion from San Domingo ; second, how many deputies the assembly 

 wished to admit. After some discussion it was unanimously 



-""^ Point du jour, I, 157, gives the deputation from Guyenne. This is 

 the name of the mihtary division, while Bordeaux is the name of the 

 diocese covering the same territory. (Brette, Les limites et les divisions 

 territoriales de la France en J^8g.) This source also states that the second 

 deputation was elected by the minority of nobles ; Proces-vcrbal, I, No. 

 20, 3; Bulletins de I'assemblee nationale (July 10) says that the reporter 

 was Hebrard, while the Point du jour says it was Salomon ; Journal de 

 Paris, No. 193, 871 (July 12), states that the first deputation could vote 

 by head. 



275 Proces-verbal of the commons from June 12 to June 17, 54. 



276 Ibid., 78. 



2"" Proces-verbal, No. 3, 7. 



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