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Rh 170. The Directory has four messengers of state whom it appoints and whom it can dismiss.

They carry to the two legislative councils the letters and memoirs of the Directory; they have entrance for that purpose into the place of the sittings of the legislative councils.

They go preceded by two ushers.

171. The Directory resides in the same commune as the legislative body.

172. The members of the Directory are lodged at the expense of the Republic and in a single edifice.

173. The compensation of each of them for each year is fixed at the value of fifty thousand myriagrammes of wheat (ten thousand two hundred and twenty-two quintals).

Title VII. Administrative and Municipal Bodies.

174. There is in each department a central administration and in each canton at least one municipal administration.

175. Every member of a department or municipal administration shall be at least twenty-five years of age.

176. The ancestor and the descendant in the direct line, brothers, uncle and nephew, and those related by marriage in the same degrees, cannot be at the same time members of the same administration, nor can they succeed them until after an interval of two years.

177. Each department administration is composed of five members; it is renewed by a fifth each year.

178. Every commune whose population runs from five thousand to a hundred thousand inhabitants has a municipal administration of its own.

179. There are in every commune whose population is less than five thousand inhabitants a municipal agent and an assistant.

180. The union of the municipal agents from each commune forms the cantonal municipality.

181. There is, moreover, chosen in every canton a president of the municipal administration.

182. In the communes whose population runs from five to ten thousand inhabitants there are five municipal officers;

Seven for ten thousand to fifty thousand.

Nine for fifty thousand to one hundred thousand.

183. In the communes whose population exceeds one