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garding the method of forming the bureaus,^*'' the plan sug- 

 gested by the committee carried and instructions were given 

 for the distribution of the members into thirty bureaus. ^^° 

 These bureaus were to be formed immediately and were to 

 be composed of forty members, each selected from the printed 

 lists of bailliages in alphabetical order and Without distinc- 

 tion of orders ; the first, thirty-first, sixty-first, etc., to be in 

 the first bureau and the second, thirty-second, sixty-second, etc., 

 in the second bureau.^^^ Questions were to be discussed in the 

 bureaus before being taken up in the general assembly so that 

 the time of the assembly might be economized. The members of 

 the bureaus were to be changed each month. ^^^ According to the 

 Proccs-verhal the secretaries of the assembly were to make this 

 distribution. A report of the distribution of the members in the 

 bureaus was given in the morning of July 2.^^^ The Bulletins 



nance a se rendre a la salle commune, ont pris ce moment pour presenter 

 des protestations. Des personnes prudentes ont imagine, de concert avec 

 M. le president et en petits pourparlers, d'eviter la lecture de ces actes et 

 de renvoyer la seance a demain pour former les vingt-quatre on trente 

 nouveaux bureaux et proceder a la nomination des officiers. II a pris pour 

 pretexte qu'il faut une liste generale numerotee." 



^^^ Point du jour, I, 87, states that one of the members asked that the 

 bureaus might be composed of members of clergy, nobles and commons 

 according to the established proportion. Duquesnoy, Journal (I, 151), 

 mentions that a member of the commons observed that by following the 

 plan of the committee the established order would not be followed. 



s^<i Proccs-verhal, I, No. 11, 21 ; Biauzat, Sa vie et sa correspondance, II, 

 154; Duquesnoy, Journal, I, 154; Point du jour, I, 87; Bulletins de I'asseni- 

 hlee nationale, July i. 



351 Proces-verbal, I, No. 11, 21 ; Point du jour, 1, 87 ; Bulletins de I'assem- 

 blee nationale, July i ; Duquesnoy, Journal, 1, 151 ; Courrier de Provence, 

 I, 15th letter, 7, says nothing about the plan except that there were to be 

 40 members in each bureau. 



^^"^ Proces-verbal, I, No. 11, 21 ; Point du jour, I, 87, says that the com- 

 mittee was to do this work. 



^5z Proces-verbal, I, No. 11, 21; Biauzat, in Sa vie et sa correspondance 

 (II, 155), says that these lists were according to his printed propositions; 

 Duquesnoy, Journal, I, 154; Point du jour, I, 89; Journal de Paris, No. 

 185, 831 (July 4), says that the bureaus were given meeting places in dif- 

 ferent halls and that there was enough room, with the halls of the clergy, 



