352. The law acknowledges neither religious vows, nor any other engagement contrary to the natural rights of man.

353. No man can be hindered from speaking, writing, printing, and publishing his thoughts. Writings cannot be fubject to any cenfure before their publication. No man can be refponfible for what he has written or published, but in cafes provided for by the law.

354. No man can be hindered from exercising the form of worfhip he has chofen, while he conforms to the laws. No man can be forced to contribute to the expences of any form of worship.The Republic pays for none.

355. There is neither privilege nor right of companies, nor corporation, nor limitation to the freedom of the prefs, of commerce, and exercife of industry and arts of every kind Every prohibitory law in this fort, when circumftances render it neceffary, is effentially provifional, and has no effect beyond a year at moft, unless it be formally renewed.

356. The law watches particularly the profeffions which intereft public morals, the fafety and the health of citizens; but admiffion to the exercise of these profeffions cannot be made to depend upon any pecuniary fecurity.

357. The law ought to provide for the recompence of inven tors, or for the maintenance of the exclufive property of their discoveries or productions.

358. The conftitution guarantees the inviolability of all property, of a juft indemnity for that of which public neceffity, legally proved, may require the facrifice.

359. The houfe of every citizen is an inviolable afylum: during the night no one has a right to enter it, except in cafe of fire, inundation, or a call from within the houfe. During the day the orders of the conftituted authorities may be executed in it. No domiciliary vifit can be made but in virtue of a law, and for the perfon or object exprefsly stated in the act which orders the vifit.

360. No corporation or affociation contrary to public order can be formed.

361. No affembly of citizens can call itself a popular fociety.

362. No particular fociety itself, employed upon political queftions, can correfpond with any other, or affiliate with it, or hold public fittings, compofed of members and auditors, distinguished from one another, or impofe conditions of admiflion and eligibility, or arrogate rights of the exclufion, or make its members wear. any external mark of their affociation.

363. The citizens cannot exercife their political rights but in the primary or communal affemblics.

364. All the citizens are free to addrefs petitions to the public. authorities, but the petitions must be individual: no affociation VOL. III. PART ii. f

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ean prefent collective petitions, except the conftituted authorities, and that only upon fubjects appertaining to their functions. The petitioners muft never forget the refpect due to the constituted authorities.

365. Every armed affemblage is an offence against the conftitu tion; it ought to be inftantly difperfed by force.

366. Every affemblage not armed ought alfo to be difperfed, at first by means of verbal command, and, if neceffary, by the calling

'out of the armed force.

367. Several constituted authorities cannot meet to deliberate together; no act iffuing from fuch a meeting can be executed.

368. No man can wear diftinctive marks which call to mind functions formerly exercifed, or fervices performed.

369. The members of the legislative body, and all the public functionaries, wear, in the exercife of their functions, the dress or fign of the authority with which they are invested; the law determines the form of it.

370. No citizen can renounce, in whole or in part, the indemnity or falary allowed him by the law on account of public functions.

371. There is uniformity of weights and measures in the Republic.

372. The French æra commences on the 22d of September, 1792, the day of the foundation of the Republic.

373. The French nation declares, that in no cafe will it suffer the return of the French, who having abandoned their country fince the 15th of July, 1789, are not comprehended in the exceptions made to the laws againft emigrants: and the nation interdicts the legislative body from creating new exceptions upon this point. The property of emigrants is irrevocably confiscated to the benefit of the Republic.

374. The French nation proclaims alfo, as guarantee of the public faith, that after an abjudication legally completed of national property, whatever might have been its origin, the legiti mate holder cannot be difpoffeffed of it, but a perfon reclaiming it may, if there be reafon, be indemnified by the national treafury. 375. None of the powers inftituted by the conftitution has the right to change it, in whole or in part, faving the reforms that may be made in it by means of revifion, conformably to the dispofitions of HEAD XIII.

376. The citizens will call to mind inceffantly, that it is upon the wifdom of choice in the primary and electoral affemblies, the duration, prefervation, and profperity of the Republic principally depend.

377. The French people commit the depofit of the prefent conftitution to the fidelity of the legislative body, of the executive directory, of the administrators and judges; to the vigilance of

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fathers of families; to wives and to mothers; to the affection of the young citizens, and to the courage of all the French.

Inspected by the representatives of the people, inspectors of the minutes.

Signed LEHAULT, ENJUBAULT.

Collated with the original, by us, prefident and fecretaries of the National Convention, at Paris, the 5th Fructidor (Aug. 22, 1795), third year of the French Republic.

Signed, M. J. CHENIER, prefident; DARASEY, SOULIGNAC, BERNIER, LAURENCEOT, DENTZELL, QUIROT, secre taries.

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TREATIES.

Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, between his Britannic Majefty and the United States of America.

By their Prefident, with the Advice and Confent of their Senate.

HIS Britannic Majefty and the United States of America being defirous, by a Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, to terminate their differences in fuch a manner as, without reference to the merits of their respective complaints and pretenfions, may be the best calculated to produce mutual fatisfaction and good understanding: and also to regulate the commerce and navigation between their respective countries, territories, and people, in fuch a manner as to render the fame reciprocal, beneficial, and fatisfactory; they have respectively named their plenipotentiaries, and given them full power to treat of, and conclude the faid treaty; that is to fay, his Britannic Majefty has named for his plenipo

The Treaty as ratified by his Britannic Majefty and the United States of America has not yet been made public. The following conditional ratification was agreed to by the Senate of the United States, on the 24th of January, 1795.

Refolved, That the Senate do confent to, and advise the President of the United States to ratify the Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation between his Britannic Majefty and the United States of America, concluded at London the 19th of November, 1794, on condition that there be added to the faid Treaty, an article whereby it fhall be agreed to fufpend the operation of fo much of the 12th article, as refpects the trade which his faid Majelly thereby confents may be carried on between the United States and his inlands in the Weft Indies, in the manner, and on the terms and conditions therein fpecified.

And the Senate recommends to the Prefident to proceed without delay to further friendly negociations with his Majefty on the fubject of the faid trade, and of the terms and conditions in queftion.

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