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Rh decrees of the National Assembly, makes part of the national debt.

The legislative body shall not in any case charge the nation with the payment of the debts of any person.

3. The detailed accounts of the expenditure of the ministerial departments, signed and certified by the ministers or ordainers-general, shall be made public by being printed at the beginning of the sessions of each legislature.

Likewise there shall be lists of the receipts from the differ- ent taxes and of all the public revenues.

The lists of these expenses and receipts shall be distinguished according to their nature, and shall show the sums received and expended year by year in each district.

The particular expenses of each department relative to the tribunals, the administrative bodies and other establishments, shall likewise be made public.

4. The department administrators and sub-administrators shall not establish any public tax, nor make any apportionment beyond the time and sums fixed by the legislative body, nor consider or permit, without being authorised by it, any local loan at the expense of the citizens of the department.

5. The executive department directs and supervises the collection and disbursement of the taxes and gives all the necessary orders for that purpose.

Title VI. Of the Relation of the French Nation with Foreign Nations

The French nation renounces the undertaking of any war with a view to making conquests, and will never employ its forces against the liberty of any people.

The constitution does not admit the right of aubaine.

Foreigners, established m France or not, inherit from their French or foreign kinsmen.

They can contract for, acquire, and receive estates situated in France and dispose of them just as any French citizen by all the methods authorised by the laws.

Foreigners who chance to be in France are subject to the same criminal and police laws as the French citizens, saving the conventions arranged with the foreign powers; their per-