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290 people; and their right at all times to change their government, to reform it, or to establish another, was solemnly asserted. The offices of hereditary stadtholder, captain-general, and admiral-general of the republic, as contrary to the rights of man, were abolished; and all hereditary distinctions, as those of nobility or the equestrian order, were promiscuously abolished. Various colleges of magistracy and finance were suppressed; and a committee of public safety, a committee of finance, a military committee, and a committee of accounts, were provisionally appointed, until a definitive arrangement could be made on these subjects by representatives chosen by the whole nation.